(Mahesh Chand) The XmlNode and the XmlDocument classes can be used to insert XML data to an existing document or to a new document.

(Dinesh Asanka) As a database developer , you may have being fed up with the never ending customer changes. Actually this is not only relevant to database developers but for all of the other developers. But for database developers has to meet the customer requirements they may need to change the dat

(Benoît Marchal) In this tip, Benoît discusses the different solutions available for passing binary data (typically files) to a Web service. The evolution of Web service protocols has gone from supporting very simple requests with simple parameters to fully supporting modern, object-oriented lang

(Nakul Goyal) Since the inception of XML, many developers have wondered why we need XML… How is it better than HTML and what does it do? For starters, XML is far more powerful than HTML, and the power resides in the “X” in XML (which stands for extensible). Rather than providing a set of pre-defin

(Bob DuCharme) The introduction of the O’Reilly book Google Hacks tells us that the filetype: query qualifier restricts your Google search to files whose names end with a particular extension. The book’s first example of this is homeschooling filetype:pdf, a query that searches for the word “homesch

(John Godel) SOAP is a protocol specification to invoke methods on servers, services, components and objects. The available procedure of using XML and HTTP as a method invocation mechanism is implied by SOAP. A small number of HTTP headers that facilitate firewall/proxy filtering are authorized by t

(Joe Gregorio) Version 8 of the draft Atom API for weblog authoring has just been released. The new version contains substantial changes from version 7, which was covered by Mark Pilgrim in a recent XML.com article “The Atom API “. Despite the changes, the API hasn’t left its guiding principles behi

(Ronald Bourret) This paper is designed to introduce the reader to the grammar used in XML DTDs to declare elements and attributes. It does not rigorously define this grammar, nor does it define the entire grammar used in DTDs. Among other things, the grammar for notations and entities is omitted. F

(Isaac Dealey) In my experience, the majority of client change requests for any given application have to do with the presentation layer. This makes sense if you’re a client, because the presentation layer is the only part of the application you see.

(Don Estes) Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce via the Internet is a disruptive technology. It turns many classic rules of the old economy upside down, where yesterday’s winners may be tomorrow’s losers. In many markets, tomorrow’s winners are now preparing to undercut the incumbent. Targeted