(John Olamendy) Your XML document is a well-organized container of information, but it seems static. Although the document format is useful in representing information structurally, you still tied down to software applications specifically made to handle it. What if you want to see the document i

(Uche Ogbuji) have covered a lot of tools for processing XML in Python. In general I have deferred discussion of each tool’s handling of XML namespaces in order to stick to the basics in the individual treatments. In this article I start to examine the support for XML namespaces in these packages, w

(Sara Cushman) Whether you are a newbie or a seasoned expert looking to tweak query performance, this learning guide to the structured query language (SQL) has something for you. The eight chapters can help you figure out how to get the data you need by looking at solutions to real-world problems.

(Alexander Wolfe) Microsoft is providing its most detailed glimpse to date of features in “Avalon,” the media-presentation technology component of its next-generation Longhorn operating system. The new information arrives as Microsoft prepares to roll out an updated beta release next week of its

(Dave Taylor) If you’re like me, you want to keep up with the latest news and information. Shell scripts help me do just that. In this article I’ll show you how I wrote a shell script that watches the news at Slashdot.org and automatically shows me the latest story headlines every time I launch a Te

XML is a fundamental part of Microsoft ADO.NET and XML Web Services. This article describes how to use XML in connected and disconnected ADO.NET applications: –Connected ADO.NET applications can query Microsoft SQL Server to return an XML result and then use the XmlReader class to iterate throu

(John Derrick) Service orientation, Web services, self-describing data, loosely coupled applications – choose your favorite term. The enterprise IT world is moving inexorably towards architectures that will allow rapid development of applications that provide real differentiated value to their busin

(Dale Waldt) The eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is a language for capturing financial information throughout a business’ information processes that will eventually be reported to shareholders, banks, regulators, and other parties. The goal of XBRL is to make the analysis and exchange

The syntax rules of XML are very simple and very strict. The rules are very easy to learn, and very easy to use. Because of this, creating software that can read and manipulate XML is very easy to do.

(Doug Mitchell) When working with XML and XSLT, it becomes tedious testing changes since there is no built-in support for executing the transformation. The MSXML SDK includes an XSLT command-line utility but unless the source and transforming stylesheet are in the same directory you must enter the p