(Nicholas Chase) In part 4 of this series on analyzing data with XSLT, the MindMap Research Team realized that the cognitive data they’re analyzing might be easier to understand if represented in the 3D space for which it is intended. The team decides to use XSLT to transform it into a 3D graph
Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML
Start a Long Process from a Web Page Using XML Web Services
(Steve Sharrock) Once again, XML Web Services come to the rescue with a simple solution to the common problem of web pages that want to do some background processing on the server and yet still return to the client without waiting for completion of the process.
XML and Wireless Technologies: WML
(David Gulbransen) It took just a few years for XML to penetrate just about everywhere in the Internet. But the triumph of XML has continued even after that—to wireless technologies.
Six Steps to LCC@Home
(Kendall Grant Clark) Let’s review where we’ve been and where we’re going. In January I started this new column, Hacking the Library, by talking about dijalog lifestyles (“Geeks and the Dijalog Lifestyle”), my attempt to describe the challenges facing people roughly like myself who have one foot in
Parsing non-XML Documents
One of the neatest tricks that a SAX filter can perform is presenting something that isn’t an XML document as if it were one. The client application doesn’t need to know that what it’s parsing is really a tab-delimited text file or a relational database if the filter hides all those details and just
A Standards-based Look at XAML’s Features
(Nigel McFarlane) icrosoft’s XAML markup language floats on top of the .NET platform. It is compiled into .NET classes, usually C#, which reduces it to a set of objects. Along with a host of other XML dialects it is an example of a new type of specification for GUIs. This article takes a look at XAM
XKMS Messages in Detail
(Rich Salz) This month we begin to implement our XKMS server. We’re going to focus on the Register operation. This is the cornerstone of the key registration service, X-KRSS; it implements the core CA function, which is issuing certificates.
Introduction to XForms: XML Powered Web Forms
(T. Raman) As we deploy Web access to software at all levels of complexity ranging from business back-ends to simple electronic transactions, we need to revisit the design of HTML forms that are the essential underpinnings of the transactional Web. XForms — a revision to the existing HTML forms tech
Troubleshooting .NET Applications
(Karthik Ravindran) Instrumenting and tracing XSLT transformations by treating XSLT as a regular programming language can provide very useful diagnostic data to help analyze and troubleshoot problems.
XML Case Study: Converting Excel Diaries to XML
(Stephan Onisick) Excel workbooks are extremely versatile at calculating and graphing workbook data. But workbooks don’t make an ideal repository, given Excel’s inherent size limitations and less-than-stellar access by other enterprise applications. This article explores the process using VBScript t
