(Philip Burton and Russel Bruhn) XML is the appropriate format for semistructured data, that is, data with a natural tree structure. Trees are a special form of graphs, and a dialect of XML called GraphML now exists that provides a standard set of tags for describing them. To visualize or draw the g

(Roy Miller) Interapplication communication can be a nasty problem for programmers. Many of the available options, such as JNI, can be difficult to use. XML-RPC provides a much easier solution. It’s clean, simple to implement, and well supported by open source libraries for most popular programming

(Adam Trachtenberg) XML is great, but I’ve constantly wondered why it’s so difficult to parse. Most languages provide you with three options: SAX, DOM, and XSLT. Each has its own problems: –SAX’s event-based design forces you to track elements manually, by pushing and popping them on and off of

(Bob Beauchemin) The next version of Microsoft SQL Server, code-named “Yukon,” represents quite a few steps forward in the evolution of XML integration. Yukon supports native storage of XML data using the XML data type, which makes it possible to run native queries on XML data using the emerging ind

(Jonathan Robie) Despite a shortage of sophisticated XML query tools, Internet demands have forced companies to present their data in various formats. In one sense little has changed, as SQL queries have long been used to combine data for different purposes and audiences. Now however, the output is

The WAP protocol is the leading standard for information services on wireless terminals like digital mobile phones. WML is the language used to create pages to be displayed in a WAP browser. In our WAP tutorial you will learn about WAP and WML, and how to convert your HTML pages to pocket format,

Data that is expressed in XML can be loaded into a SQL Server 2000 database by using the XML Bulk Load component. This article outlines the steps that you need to follow to load XML data into a table that already exists in the database.

(Benoit Marchal) In 2001, I demonstrated to one of my skeptical clients that a Web service can be easy to deploy in the field. My goal was to replace most of my client’s administrative paperwork with a Web service, thereby “fastening” their supply chain. The acid test was to deploy the Web service t

(Eric Brown) The next version of SQL Server, code-named “Yukon,” includes quite a few enhancements and expanded language support. For example, Transact-SQL now conforms more closely to the ANSI-99 SQL specification and makes querying more flexible and expressive. Yukon can execute user-defined f

(Dan Wahlin) The .NET platform provides the ability to save the state of an object using serialization techniques. If you’re not familiar with serialization, it’s a way to persist object data to another form such as binary or XML data. In this article, I’ll provide an overview of how to use XML Seri