(Bob Beauchemin) See how improvements to XML support in Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 work together to make handling XML data in your applications easier.

(Matt Biddulph) A social bookmarks manager, del.icio.us lives on the web. You submit your links to a website, adding some descriptive text and keywords, and del.icio.us aggregates your post with everyone else’s submissions–letting you slice and dice the information any way you like. Posts with

(Neil Graham and Elena Litani) For a mature technology, the XML space is surprisingly active. Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.3 was recently finalized, and is the conduit through which many of the newest open standards relating to XML will enter the J2SE platform. In this installment of a two-p

E-business is showing a new side, as UBL becomes a new OASIS Standard. This designation represents the highest echelon of ratification. The language defines a common XML library of business documents.

(Ekki) With XML you can describe data hierarchically without caring about the later output format, and with XSL-Transformations you have the ability to convert the content of that XML document into various formats such as text, xml, html, … if necessary you can replace, add, reformat the content,

(Nicholas Chase) Applets have always been designed to play in a ‘sandbox’ in which they can’t hurt anything on a user’s system, so their security is tighter than that of their server-based application counterparts. For example, a Java application can easily make a network connection to another serve

(Edd Dumbill) For a group of people who spend so much time working with and talking about XML, it’s not surprising that the members of the XML-DEV mailing list know exactly what it is that they dislike about XML. Over the last week, we’ve had a festival of complaint about and hate of XML’s misfe

(Peter Coffee) It’s rarely a term of praise to compare an IT system to a quilt. In an IT context, I usually see the “q” word with a prefix like “patchwork” or even “crazy”—labeling a system as combining all sorts of independently developed elements with no coherent overall design.

The best way to deal with result set page would be to use an XPath query and the position() function. However, XML for SQL doesn’t currently support this function so we can not use it. There are two other methods which can be used. Which one you use depends on your result set. Both of these examples

(Ken Henderson) SQLXML provides managed code classes that allow you to retrieve XML data from SQL Server (you can translate the data to XML on the server or at the client). These classes have analogues in the .NET Framework itself but are more geared toward SQLXML and exposing its unique functionali