Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML

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Language Instincts

by Jon Udell – Back in April I made the case for writing weblog entries in XHTML, using CSS for a dual purpose: to control presentation and as hooks for structured search. I then started to accumulate well-formed content, writing CSS class attributes with an eye toward data mining, and flowing XHTML

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Sometimes Syntax Is Significant

by A. Russell Jones – If you’re using Microsoft XMP Parser (MSXML) version 3, you may be able to improve your XSLT style sheet execution times dramatically by changing nothing more than syntax. Recently I used an XSLT style sheet that set the value of a variable using a standard, supported XSLT synt

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An Introduction to StAX

by Elliotte Rusty Harold – Most current XML APIs fall into one of two broad classes: event-based APIs like SAX and XNI or tree-based APIs like DOM and JDOM. Most programmers find the tree-based APIs to be easier to use; but such APIs are less efficient, especially with respect to memory usage. An in

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An XQuery Update

by Per Bothner – The XQuery/XSLT working group released another set of Working Drafts on August 22, 2003. This article is my attempt to summarize the significant changes in the new drafts. Note that there is no new version of either the Data Model or Functions and Operators specifications, which wer