By Uche Ogbuji – It seems there is no escaping class warfare. XML is a young society, but it is already succumbing to age-old divisions. The most direct roots of XML are in the processing of text documents, and XML is fundamentally a text-processing format. Many XML users, however, come from backgro

The Oledbxpath.exe sample demonstrates how to use the ATL OLE DB consumer templates to extract an XML stream for a SQL Server 2000 Databases using an XPath query.

by Will Provost – In part one of this article, we observed that while XML’s hierarchical model is somewhat at odds with the rectangular structure of relational data, the goals of data normalization as stated in the relational are certainly worthwhile.In this second and final part, we’ll look

By Puneet Gupta – The focus for much of wireless development so far has been on wireless Internet technologies like WAP 1.x and Wireless Markup Language (WML), which present content to the mobile users adhering to the bandwidth and memory limitations of mobile devices.

by Matt Long – DIME addresses the difficulties involved in embedding binary data into XML documents. DIME is a specification submitted by Microsoft and IBM to IETF, and it defines a lightweight, binary message format that can be used to encapsulate one or more application-defined payloads of arbitra

Since its emergence in the mid-1980s, digital music has seen plenty of controversy, and even the management of digital music metadata has been subject to its own share of drama. But sometimes out of political dust-ups, good technical solutions emerge. In this article, Uche Ogbuji introduces MusicBra

By Lisa Vaas – While support for XML grew as IBM released DB2 Universal Database 8 with support for the language, support of a limited query language from a standards group could limit the broad use of XML.

XPath.exe demonstrates how to extract an XML stream from a SQL Server 2000 database by using an XPath query and ADO in Visual C++.

by Sal Mangano – Recently, colleagues of mine asked if I knew of a tool that could help them regression-test some code which outputs XML. The problem was, they explained, that their changes may affect the order of elements. However, for their application, the order did not matter as long as the hier

By Eric B. Parizo – Even when Entergy and its fellow energy providers began using comma-separated values (CSV) files a few years ago to submit their orders to one another, it was still nearly impossible to record, with complete accuracy, where electricity was coming from and going to and who should