(Kendall Grant Clark) In this and next month’s column, I’m going to design and implement just such a tool in Python, isbn2lccn. More specifically, in this column I’ll look at ISBNs, including how we might use ISBNs in RDF, and consider some of the sources of bibliographic information available on th

(Ken Henderson) As we saw in the earlier discussions of updategrams and OPENXML, inserting XML data into a SQL Server database is relatively easy. However, both of these methods of loading data have one serious drawback: They’re not suitable for loading large amounts of data. In the same way tha

(Fabio Arciniegas A.) In this installment of our discussion of SVG and typography, we make a departure from the sobriety of the typographic strategies we’ve been discussing so far and go for the other half of the fun: the bells and whistles of effects, distortions, coloring, and other unusual treatm

(Niall Ginsbourg) Many articles have been written about how to send an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file and an associated Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) file to Web clients to reduce processing load on the server. Unfortunately, in the real world this isn’t going to solve many problem

(Andre Tost and Tony Cowan) This article introduces a couple of techniques that you can use to build interoperable Web services that take and return object collections. This is the first of a series of articles covering this subject. Future articles will cover more detailed scenarios.

(John E. Simpson) How do I create a SMIL text region using XML input? I am new to XSLT and SMIL, but I am attempting to create a SMIL presentation based on an XML document, using XSLT. Can anyone tell me how to take the text contained in my XML document, and output it to a region of my SMIL […]

(Dave Pawson) This is a bit of code to build an XML file from a CSV file. Its not unique, but I like it. It addresses the problems of embedded & or < characters, embedded quote marks, even line breaks within a field. I needed the latter since one of the files I play with derives from an HTML form […]

(Edd Dumbill) A while back, I wrote about the changing face of XML, and said that XML and relational databases appeared to be a slow starter. XML database guru Ron Bourret wrote back with a different perspective.

(Jim Wagner) Developers can test and gain certification as a VoiceXML Developer, thanks to a test suite and educational track designed by the VoiceXML Forum, officials announced recently. Certification tracks, while not used as proof of in-depth knowledge but as an indicator of certain baseline

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