(Bob DuCharme) Last month we looked at the REST interface to Amazon Web Services (AWS), and how an f parameter in a URL calling this interface can point to an XSLT stylesheet. If you set it to “xml” instead of pointing it at a stylesheet, Amazon returns data in formats that conform to either the “li

(Adelene Ng) This article demonstrates how to integrate XSL-FO, XSLT, and JavaMail into existing web-based applications. This article shows how to generate PDF reports for an application through the use of XSLT and XSL-FO embedded within the Java application. Also it illustrates how the generate

The goal of the Applied XML Developer’s Conference is to cut away all the unessential conference baggage and concentrate on why we’re spending time at a conference in the first place — the talks by industry experts and experienced practitioners. By doing so, we can keep the price, and your wast

(Uche Ogbuji) Meet Schematron, a schema language that allows you to directly express rules without creating a whole grammatical infrastructure. Schematron is useful whenever you wish to apply and check against rules for the contents of XML documents. Schematron is extraordinarily flexible in the

(Edd Dumbill) The W3C is a curious beast. While moral in the sense that it evangelizes open standards and accessibility, it is strangely amoral in its obedience to member vendor whim and its insistence on the one true path of W3C-blessed technologies. Both of the topics I tackle this week are re

A new type of data has gained popularity in recent years, XML. XML has evolved from a simple data transfer format to a data storage format that includes its own schema-definition vocabulary, XSD, as well as query languages. Look at the XML data type, implementation of XML in tables, parameters, and

(David Becker) Despite rumors to the contrary, the adult entertainment industry is not developing its own dialect of Extensible Markup Language dubbed XXXML. Aside from that, it’s hard to find an industry or interest that isn’t taking advantage of the fast-growing standard for Web services and da

(Nicholas Chase) A typical HTML form only lets you submit to one URL at a time, which makes it difficult to retrieve information from multiple Web services. This tip shows you how to use XForms to solve that problem by using multiple submissions from a single form.

(Paul Ford) The United States government and the Semantic Web are a perfect match: imagine all of those senators and representatives, each query-able by age, party affiliation, bills proposed, committee membership, and voting record. For the last few years, I’ve wanted to collect as much data on the

(Selim Mimaroglu) This article looks in detail at how to generate XML data from your relational database. Although the examples were run on Oracle, very little of the code is Oracle specific. You can easily use all the ideas and examples presented here in other relational databases. We did this proj