(Aaron Skonnard) The recently released InfoPath 2003 SP1 Preview provides a sneak peek at the InfoPath enhancements that will ship with Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 around the middle of 2004. The preview is packed with new features, others which improve the user experience and some which improve the de

(Martin Friedrich) Over the last years XML has grown in importance when it comes to storing data on stream-oriented media. In most cases, DOM-API implementations are used to handle storing and manipulating data in memory. This article shows how to use an alternative API – the SAX-API – in a gene

(Uche Ogbuji) In the last article I discussed namespace handling in Python 2.3’s SAX and minidom libraries. As I pointed out there are a lot of pitfalls and oddities involved with processing namespaces, and I will continue to give the same treatment to the namespace support in third party Python lib

(Sean McCown) If you could do one thing to improve integration and automate processes with customers and business partners, it would be to implement XML, which has become the standard for exchanging information between disparate systems because it is easily transformed into any format. With very lit

(Harry Fuecks) These days, XML has become part of landscape in most all areas of software development — none more so than on the Web. Those using common XML applications, such as RSS and XML-RPC, will probably find public domain libraries geared specifically to help them work with the formats, elim

(Benoit Marchal) This tip discusses how to design modular, flexible, and extensible service interfaces with SOAP headers.

(Ken Henderson) SQL Server is an XML-enabled DBMS, which can read and write XML data, return data from databases in XML format, and read and update data stored in XML documents. In fact, SQL Server has eight different ways to use XML. Learn how each of them works, and how they interoperate.

(Uche Ogbuji) The spaghetti of namespaces in, say, a WSDL file can lead to a lot of confusion. Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL) packages information on a namespace. If you use URLs for namespaces, use RDDL as described in this article to provide useful guides to users of your XML d

(Eric Gropp) The principle “program to an interface, not an implementation” helps control the complexity and enhance the flexibility of systems. XML interfaces are a natural extension of this principle that bring a number of new benefits in terms of flexibility, reusability, simplified code, and rea

(Thad Hoffman) One handy feature of Internet Explorer is the ability to use data islands to link data to html controls on a page. This feature is not readily built into Mozilla, but one can easily mimic this behaviour to build cross-browser web applications.