(Kastellanos Nikos) This article explains an engine that transforms XML files on a web server.

(Edd Dumbill) Welcome to the last XML-Deviant of 2004. Hauling myself up out of last week’s excess, I find there have been several interesting developments in XML over the last fortnight. The Christmas season tends to yield more than average productivity, as programmers hide in darkened rooms to

(Michael S. Mimoso) Enterprise affection for XML Web services may have C-level hearts fluttering over the immediate efficiency and productivity gains, but the other shoe is about to drop in this relationship. (R)

(Xiaole Song) The Microsoft Speech Server (MSS) 2004 was launched in March of this year. MSS 2004 is a Web-based, flexible, and integrated solution of both speech-enabled interactive voice responsive (IVR) and Web applications, used in conjunction with the Microsoft Speech Application Software Devel

(Caroline Kvitka) XML has grown to become the de facto standard for data representation. This growth in popularity has spurred the need for a way to search XML documents for specific information and to scour repositories of documents represented in XML to find specific documents. Enter the XML Q

(Vance McCarthy) Senior devs at Quadrix Solutions have found XML can bring some powerful boosts to core Open Source stand-alone apps. Notably in the areas of apps integration and performance.

(Keith Barrows) When developing web sites there are many times that session state has to be saved between pages. Maybe you are writing an Intranet app that takes 20 pages to do one action. Or, maybe you have an Internet site that state must be saved as the user randomly navigates through the site.

(Uche Ogbuji) As I wrote in my earlier tip, lookup tables are a common technique for quickly finding results that would be very inefficient or impossible to determine through programming. They consist of a mapping that associates a key with a value. In that article, I demonstrated how to build l

(Michael Jones) In an article published last week on DevX entitled “Why EDI Must Die”, the author, Jeremy Jones, gives several reasons why he believes XML is superior to the X12 format for electronic data interchange. He points out several shortcomings of X12 and several arguments as to why XML is a

(Edd Dumbill) In this week’s column, I cover two debates that consider the cost of XML. In the first discussion, the cost is that of file size and processing overhead. In the second, it’s actual dollars charged for access to a web service. Also, watch out for the special twilight zone moment as we f