If you want to convert a string to a .NET Framework data type, use the XmlConvert method that fits the application requirements. For a list of all conversion methods available in the XmlConvert class, see XmlConvert Members. The string returned from the ToString method is a string version of the

(Philip Miseldine) RSS is finally getting the recognition it deserves. SitePoint now publishes RSS, and large news agencies like the BBC, the New York Times and CNN also publish RSS feeds. Now, developers can integrate content from a wide range of producers within their own applications, giving user

(George Weihs) XML web service technologies are rendering both platform and programming language arbitrary. Programmers are now able to build these services on their platform of choice using their favorite languages and tools. While standards are by no means complete and rival standards often co

(Andy Oram) In last week’s article (“From P2P to Web Services: Identification and Addressing”), I examined the ways in which the development of web services might learn some lessons from the peer-to-peer phenomenon of a few years ago. I focused on identification and addressing. In this article I con

(Oleg Paraschenko) TeXML is an XML vocabulary for TeX. The processor transforms TeXML markup into the TeX markup, escaping special and out-of-encoding characters. Intended audience is developers who convert documents from XML to TeX.

(Nicholas Chase) XSL Transformations provide a handy means for converting XML data to HTML pages, allowing you to store your content in its most flexible form and still have complete control over its display in the user’s browser. This article, which is the second in a series on Web site personaliza

(CodeZX) This C# program demonstrates loading and saving an object (including a Bitmap) to an XML file using .NET XML serialization encapsulated within a ‘wrapper’ class. XML Serialization enables an object’s public fields and properties to be saved and loaded to/from an XML file.

(Aaron Skonnard) XML’s ubiquity and continually improving tool support has created a magnetism that attracts organizations everywhere. As organizations move to XML, they must also provide a coherent data migration strategy that allows their users to bring old files forward. This is a nontrivial

(Ron Bourret) In a panel discussion at Software Development 2004 entitled “Marrying SQL, XML, Web Services and Grid Computing”, Peter Coffee of eWEEK magazine best summarized the state of these four technologies when he said that customers would not abandon SQL, wanted to use XML to repurpose data,

(Jim Mason) You are an RPG programmer. You could use the XML parser APIs on the iSeries to learn how to do DOM or SAX parsing to generate XML documents. Good idea? No! Learn how to easily generate XML from SQL WITHOUT CODING using WDSC. We’ll look at WDSC’s easy-to-use wizards that generate basic