(Massimiliano Bigatti) A few months ago I was working on a Java application for the banking industry. There were a bunch of hosted services that we had to integrate in our software. We had to use web services, since the SOAP protocol was the bank’s standard way to access legacy data, throughout CICS

(Tahir Malik) XML has become the Internet standard in data representation. XML can not only be transported over HTTP, but it can also go through firewalls, making this markup language quite fluid. XML Web Services, as its name suggests, is highly dependent upon XML.

The objective of this session is to introduce the basics (and the architecture) of executing SQLXML queries in Microsoft .NET applications by using SQLXML Managed Classes. Code examples will be presented to illustrate how to execute different types of SQLXML queries (including FOR XML AUTO, Template

(Mark Pilgrim) Atom is an emerging XML vocabulary and protocol for syndication and editing. Atom has a coherent linking model to express a number of different types of links. Atom borrows heavily from the LINK element in HTML, although they are not identical. This article explores several of the mos

(Jay Nelson) Most of my application development these days is in C#. Over the past 2 years I have grown accustomed to the C# XML comments built into the C# editor. As we all know by now, you can edit the project properties of your C# application and define an XML documentation file. With that proces

(Brett McLaughlin) The last installment of this column dealt with generating classes using the JAXB API. This article focuses on using these classes, and examines JAXB’s round-tripping capabilities. You’ll learn where the problem areas are in converting from XML to Java code and then back again.

(Antoine Quint) It has been a long while since I last indulged in sharing my precious affection for SVG with you, dear reader. Time has passed and things have evolved in the SVG world. In fact, things have evolved so much that I come back to you all charged up for what I hope will be many more strol

XMLTemplate.exe demonstrates how to extract an XML stream from a SQL Server 2000 database using an XML Template file and the ADO Command object.

When an XML file contains a xmlns parameter, you can’t use simple SelectSingleNode to retrieve a specific node. Take the following code, for example.

(Peter Abrahams) XML is taking over the world for all sorts of good reasons. But just as we thought that it would solve all our problems and let us build a tower up to the gods babble intervenes. (R)