(Simon St. Laurent) XML’s ubiquity and the slowing of the standards cycle meant that there were a lot fewer vendors promising something completely new and different at the XML 2004 exposition, but a lot of projects and products have reached maturity. It was delightful to see more demos working as ex

(Mehmet Altýnel and Michael J. Franklin) Information Dissemination applications are gaining increasing popularity due to dramatic improvements in communications bandwidth and ubiquity. The sheer volume of data available necessitates the use of selective approaches to dissemination in order to avo

(Olexiy & Alexander Prokhorenko) In this article I return to problems of teamwork among Web designers and programmers. On the one hand, the problem looks as though it does not exist at all. On another—in the development of complex and difficult sites, with huge files, and frequently varying data—thi

(Ashutosh Singhal) Generally, when XML data is being passed to a stored procedure, it would contain the XML version and encoding information along with namespace declarations. This sometimes interferes with the XPath queries. Here is one way we can solve the problem.

(Martin Bond) In the chapter you will learn about –How XML has evolved from the need for platform-independent data exchange –The relationship between XML and both Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) –How to create well-formed and valid XML doc

(Michael S. Mimoso) XML loyalists put the old “strength in numbers” adage to the test last week at XML Conference & Exhibition 2004. There were dissidents in the nation’s capital, threatening to turn the XML standard on its ear. Proponents of binary XML, specifically the World Wide Web Consortium’s

(Darryl K. Taft) The European Commission is caught in the middle of the latest standards battle between Microsoft Corp. and chief rivals IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. This time it’s over XML.

(Steven Holzner) The following example uses the logical operator >. This rule applies to all <PLANET> elements after position 5: <xsl:template match="PLANET[position() > 5]"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:template> There is also a true function that always returns a value of true,

(Ashish Singhal) In this article, we will show how to fill a DropDownList inside a DataGrid through an XML file. We will also show how the contents of one DropDownList changes dynamically as we change the index of second DropDownList (both inside the grid).

Doug Tidwell) This article offers one curious reader an automated solution for defining a case-insensitive enumeration that’s straightforward, standards-compliant, and requires little work on the developer’s part. Several code samples are included.