When Microsoft Internet Explorer retrieves an XML file as the result of a POST request, and that XML file includes an XSL style sheet that is available locally in the cache, the style sheet is not retrieved from the client-side cache. Instead, the style sheet is requested in full from the specified

(Michael Ball) Separating content from presentation is one of XML’s major features. But eventually you need to style that XML into something presentable. That’s where XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) comes in — XSL transforms XML from one document type to another. Servlets provide a great platf

(Serge Abiteboul, Angela Bonifati, Grégory Cobéna, Ioana Manolescu and Tova Milo) The advent of XML as a universal exchange format, and of Web services as a basis for distributed computing, has fostered the apparition of a new class of documents: dynamic XML documents. These are XML documents where

(Nicholas Chase) One of the great strengths of XForms is the fact that an XForms client can send its data as XML, and that it receives XML in return. This capability can be exceptionally useful in the field of Web services, where that’s exactly what gets sent and received: XML messages. In this

(John Hunt, Don Day, Erik Hennum, Michael Priestley and Dave A. Schell) The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based format for structuring and authoring technical content. This article explores advantages DITA provides for producing HTML content — including easy global cha

(Dan Wahlin) Altova’s xmlspy has been one of the top XML editors for several years due to its support for XML document editing, schema design and validation, XSLT editing and debugging, and WSDL/SOAP capabilities. I’ve been a fan of xmlspy, but have often wished there were a way to integrate it into

Commerce Interchange Pipeline Manager transmit profiles can be configured with several different signature and/or encryption components. If a transmit profile is used to send a signed and/or encrypted non-XML business document to a standard receive location on another Commerce Server, then the trans

(Philip McCarthy) RDF is increasingly recognized as an excellent choice for representing and processing semi-structured data. This article shows you how to use the Jena Semantic Web Toolkit to exploit RDF data models in your Java applications.

(Vlad Patryshev) RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is a flexible and efficient format for exchanging structured, dynamically changing data, such as news headlines, blogs, job vacancies, new projects, recent wiki changes, etc. You might not have noticed it yet, but as soon as you get tuned in, you’ll dis

(Susan Abraham) In most Business Applications we frequently find that the input to a System would be in the form of Xml Data Files. This is particularly true with Modules of a Project that deal with Interoperability. These input files would require to be validated. The validation of an Xml input Fil