(Kurt Mang) A recent project had a user interface requirement where data could be displayed two ways: either in chronological order (easy!) or grouped by family member (less easy). Furthermore, if the user selected a family-member sort, the name of the person was to be shown on a line before the dat

(Jesus Rodriguez) In the recent years Web Services has been adopted by the developers community as one of the most popular ways to build distributed applications. The Web Services adoption in some scenarios demands higher requirements. The Web Service protocols stack WS-* defines protocols that

(Uche Ogbuji) In the last two articles I’ve discussed namespace handling in Python 2.3’s SAX and minidom libraries and in 4Suite. In this article I focus on ElementTree, libxml/Python and PyRXPU. I recommend reading or reviewing those articles first, as well as the earlier articles in this namespace

(Susan Jackson and Hannah Parker) This tutorial offers an insight into the new Call Control XML (CCXML) language. This language enhances the telephony industry by allowing development of call control functionality, irrespective of the base proprietary telephony system. (R)

(Fabio Arciniegas A.) In the last part of our exploration of SVG and Typography, we turn our attention to effects with animated type, exploiting SVG declarative animation features. Instead of just using individual samples showcasing each technique, I decided to finish these series with a summari

This article demonstrates how to programmatically retrieve an XML data stream from a SQL Server 2000 mapping schema by using an XPath query. The scope operates in a client/server (2-tier) model. This sample also allows you to test XPath queries against the mapping schema. For each query, the tex

(Dan Wahlin) Web developers have long faced the challenge of maintaining a consistent look and feel across a Web site. Several different types of approaches have been developed over time to meet this challenge, including the use of server-side include files, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), XML combine

(David Mertz) In this installment, David discusses his practical experiences developing interrelated XML data formats for the EVM2003 Free Software project to develop voting machines that produce voter-verifiable paper ballots. Some design principles of format subsetting emerge. In addition, Dav

(Joe Pluta) Let me start with a disclaimer: This column is not intended to bash Web Services. Far from it. In fact, as I did my research, I became more and more impressed with how far Web Services have progressed, and the article sort of evolved into a list of things that, in my opinion, need to be

(Massimiliano Bigatti) In the first installment of this article, I introduced some design patterns applied to the problem area of web services integration. This article presents more patterns: –Configuration Driven Service –Data Logger –Flow Logger –State Logger –Input/Output Valida