Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C Recommendation for how to represent information in a text-based document. To give you an analogy: if Java is portable code, then, XML is portable data. XML is extensible (as it does not have any fixed set of tags); it makes use of markup (angled brac

Dare Obasanjo combines his efforts from a previous article on EXSLT with those of Oleg Tkachenko’s article on creating multiple outputs from a single XSLT transformation to create a customer EXSLT library for the .NET Framework that includes support for EXSLT functions to regular XPath queries.

(Steve Vinoski and Douglas C. Schmidt) Some programming languages, such as Java and Smalltalk, support reflection or introspection. This feature allows applications written in these languages to obtain information about objects and classes at runtime, typically using this information to perform dyna

(Serge Abiteboul, Angela Bonifati, Grégory Cobéna, Ioana Manolescu and Tova Milo) The advent of XML as a universal exchange format, and of Web services as a basis for distributed computing, has fostered the apparition of a new class of documents: dynamic XML documents. These are XML documents where

(Peter V. Mikhalenko) It’s possible to store and retrieve XML documents in a relational database even if that database does not boast XML features. The secret lies in careful use of Java (the database does have to be JDBC-compliant) and a third-party middleware framework named XML-DBMS, which acts a

The purpose of a DTD (Document Type Definition) is to define the legal building blocks of an XML document. It defines the document structure with a list of legal elements.

(Robert Bourret) In this paper we will discuss strategies for transferring data between XML documents and relational databases according to two mappings (a table-based mapping and an object-based mapping) commonly used to map DTDs to relational databases. Although the discussion largely focuses on t

(Dante Lorenso) In the last few years, XML has received great media attention, and most languages support the parsing and extraction of data from XML documents. Besides being a great three-letter anacronym to sprinkle on your resumé, XML is actually a useful data storage structure for PHP programmer

Synchronization between DataSet(System.Data) and XmlDataDocument(System.Xml) is not performed when you use InnerXml on a node that has a text node only. The text appears to disappear from the output that is generated.

(K. Scott Morrison) True story from the consulting trenches: the operations staff had left hours ago, shaking their heads and reluctantly leaving the consultants to resolve a problem with their code. It was well past midnight, in the middle of winter, in a town many time zones from home. The project