(Eric McMullen) You might as well face it; your data model is going to change. You can whine about it. You can fight with the DBA and the requirements team. Or you can get ready for the change before it happens. This article focuses on the last option, giving you some techniques to build a more flex

(Faisal Khan) XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. XML can be used in many ways and one of which is ‘data storage’. This is the one we will be exploring in this article. XML along with XSL ( Extensible Stylesheet Language ) can by used to present data on the web pages. XML provides the dat

(Eric van der Vlist) The European XML conference (XML Europe) took place last month in Amsterdam. One of the presentations was titled “refactoring XML” and, without going that far, one of the main recurring themes was certainly refactoring the uses of XML.

(Elliotte Rusty Harold) Rigorously testing preconditions is an important characteristic of robust, reliable software. Schemas make it very easy to define the preconditions for XML documents you parse and the postconditions for XML documents you write. Even if the document itself does not have a sche

(Dare Obasanjo and Howard Hao) This article discusses the XPathReader, which provides the ability to filter and process large XML documents in an efficient manner using an XPath-aware XmlReader. With the XPathReader, one can sequentially process a large document and extract an identified sub-tree m

(Dan Hounshell) Recently I found myself putting together an Authorize.Net implementation for a client. For those who do not know, Authorize.Net is a payment processing gateway similar to Verisign’s Payflow Pro or the almost completely departed CyberCash’s CashRegister. Authorize.Net offers sever

(Ian Yates) Getting people of different backgrounds to communicate effectively can be a difficult task, but translate that chore to data in disparate computer systems and, writes Ian Yates, you get help from XML. When it comes to human languages, there never was an obvious logical reason for the

(Philip Miseldine) .NET hasn’t traditionally been the SitePoint community’s framework of choice for Web development. A simple comparison of the activity within the PHP and the .NET forums highlights this fact. But with the release of SitePoint’s first ASP.NET book, I thought it was about time us .NE

(Pallav Nadhani) When you think of the phrase “charting on the Web”, you probably think of COM components, .NET assemblies, or extensions (like Office Web Extensions). While these are great ways to chart your data, they do put a strain on the system when you need to chart data for thousands of concu

(Jo Rabin) The News Standards Summit took place late last year (December, 2003) in Philadelphia. It examined in some detail a number of standards in the news industry. It led to an open forum on, as described in the agenda, “how to achieve hassle free news exchange”. The goal of the meeting was,