(Chris Cyvas) Systems documentation is one of those tasks that often suffers during the completion of a project. It’s frequently pushed to the end of the development cycle, if it appears at all, in order to minimize redundant work. However, with XML Documentation support in C# and VB.NET, and th

(Thomas Erl) If you know that Web services will be a strategic part of your enterprise, then you need to start somewhere. A single application project, for instance, provides a low-risk opportunity for taking that first step. You will be able to integrate Web services to a limited extent and in a co

(Suhil Srinivas) This article is the second in a series of articles giving developers a visual tour of Yukon. The previous article was aimed at giving a developer a tour of the SQL Workbench. In this article the primary focus would be on the XQuery designer.

(Scott Simmons) Community integration elevates collaborative commerce to a new level of integration between enterprises. XML-based document exchanges between companies impose new challenges on organizations building a B2B community integration solution.

(Dan Jurden) If you developed smart tags in Office XP, you’ll be interested in the changes in Office 2003. Smart tag technology links text to resources that provide relevant information useful in creating a document. Or even better, relevant information can be inserted right into the document itself

(Anjana Srikanth) Ever since the invention of the web, all web pages have been designed using predefined tags in HTML, or the HyperText Markup Language. The portable quality of these tags enables web documents to be viewed with ease in any browser anywhere in the world.

(Danny Lesandrini) Back in November 2003, I was assigned the task of creating an import routine that would refresh data in an Access 2000 database from an array of XML files. For some reason, I thought it would be easy, as in “one touch import” or something. As it turns out, it is not that easy.

(Benoît Marchal) SOAP’s strength is that it builds on the familiar and widely deployed Web infrastructure. That can also be a weakness because Web servers can make assumptions about Web services that are simply not true. In this installment, we discuss some issues with error handling in Web services

(Uche Ogbuji) The world of XML is vast and growing, with a huge variety of standards and technologies that interact in complex ways. It can be difficult for beginners to navigate the most important aspects of XML, and for users to keep track of new entries and changes in the space. XML is a basic sy

(Jon Udell) In last month’s installment I showed a simple search service that uses libxslt to reduce a file of XML content (my weblog writing) to just the elements matching an XPath expression. This month’s challenge was to scale up to a database-backed implementation using Berkeley DB XML. Sinc