(Srinivas Pandrangi) This article provides a technical overview of the XBRL standard, with emphasis on the architecture of the standard and the potential applications surrounding the business reporting functionality it supports. Business reporting has been the focus of discussion over the last f
Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML
Importing XML documents to Relational Databases using Java
(Ale Gicqueau) These days, most companies across all industries use relational databases or RDBMS (Relational Databases Management Systems) to store and manage their critical business information. In fact, the three most important relational databases vendors happen to be the three most important so
XML Capabilities – FOR XML Clause
With the release of SQL Server 2000, a lot more support and functionality for XML was included in the product. In this article we would target at some of the out of the box functionality that SQL Server 2000 offers us to convert our relational data as XML formatted data. Not wasting much of the time
Gates Envisions New Era of Seamless Computing at COMDEX
In his 20th annual COMDEX Las Vegas keynote address, Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates outlined the company’s vision for Seamless Computing, a framework for software innovation that addresses the fundamental issues computer users face today, unlocks the value of comput
More Gems From the Mines
(Uche Ogbuji)This article pulls together information on Python, generating output with XML and a host of other tips, including a DOM Node Builder.
Benefits of XML in Business
(Phoebe Yi, Paul Fretter and Sophie Zhong) XML has become a hot topic over recent years due to its core qualities: extensibility, platform independence, and self-describing nature to name a few. Considered by many to solve a wide variety of e-problems, it has enjoyed an optimistic following that bel
Sort Dates With XSLT
(Dan Wahlin) XSLT 1.0 doesn’t let you sort dates using the xsl:sort tag. This can present a problem because dates frequently play an important role in various applications. For example, XSLT doesn’t let you sort the Customer nodes based upon the data contained within the CustomerSince nodes in this
Custom Exceptions using Microsoft Exception Management Application Block
(Shreenivasa Ramadurai) The Microsoft Exception Management Application Block provides a very simple framework for handling exceptions. It also provides the Interface to implement custom exception to log the error in different Data sources like –Text File –Alert to Pager –MSMQ –Data b
Build cross-browser XML paging code
(Edmond Woychowsky) My manager doesn’t like scrolling through page after page of tabular information when using a browser-based application. And the delay he experiences while waiting for the next page to load provides him the opportunity to exercise his vast knowledge of the more interesting parts
Enterprise Application Integration using Apache Cocoon 2.1
(Tony Culshaw) Apache Cocoon has typically been categorized as a web publishing framework, but since the release of version 2.1 is has started to look more like an XML application server. A project with a travel company to build a web-based travel agency desktop which integrates several common ba
