(John E. Simpson) Q: How do I merge two XML source trees into one? I’ve tried so many things that it’s driving me crazy: I want to merge or join two XML files. Which two files are to be merged are specified in a third file (call it merge.xml).

(Joe Marini) As XML has grown more prevalent as a data delivery mechanism, so too has the need to use it for presentation in a wide variety of reporting formats. XML is useful for more than just the delivery of information, however. It can be used to help solve a wide range of problems encountered w

(Roger Wolter) The XML features of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and the subsequent XML for SQL Server 2000 Web releases enable a whole new class of XML-aware applications. The ability to retrieve SQL Server data as XML documents makes many Web and business-to-business applications trivial to do. These

(Dan Wahlin) Extensible Markup Language (XML) has evolved considerably in its short five-year history. It started out as a simple way to mark up data and relied on seasoned technologies for data validation, such as document type definitions (DTDs). As XML has matured, the World Wide Web Consortium (

(Keith Craig) Mobile TaskVision is a mobile ASP.NET Web application built using mobile Web Forms located in the Microsoft .NET Framework’s System.Web.Mobile namespace. The application consumes the existing Task Vision XML Web services that facilitate all of the data exchange. Reuse of the existing i

(Andrew Yang) There are many reasons why Web services are gaining traction, including ease-of-use, their loosely coupled nature, and effectiveness in application integration with the lowest cost and least effort required. Yet the use of Web services is not without challenges. Security continues to b

(Michael Fitzgerald) I know what you’re up against. You’ve just inherited a new project at work that requires you to learn XSLT, but you don’t have a clue where to start. If that’s your problem, this article should give you a leg up over the wall. It will quickly cover five basics of XSLT found in t

(Raghu Donepudi) Every new enterprise system built today has to integrate with and support existing systems. Since the earliest days of programming, passing data between systems via flat files has been a common operation—and developers get to write the code to transfer the data from one format to an

(Michael Champion) The end of the year is here again, a time when we traditionally take a long look at the progress we’ve already made and then turn our eyes toward the future, attempting to forecast the year to come. With this in mind, Hitesh Seth sought input from industry leaders on their end-of-

(Saravana Kumar) During web development, you might come across many situations where you need to bind XML to a DataGrid. There are many ways to do this, for example we can load the XML into a dataset and then bind the dataset to datagrid. You might think that for just binding XML, why I need to crea