by Jonathan Goodyear – If your XML parsing takes a sudden wrong turn, your XML file might contain an illegal character. Learn what these characters are, when they crop up, and what to do about them.
Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML
Tip: Use imports and includes to override XSLT templates
By Nicholas Chase – Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) provide two different ways to combine several style sheets in the transformation of a single source document. In the process, it’s almost inevitable that more than one template can apply to a single node. Which template is act
Proper XML Output in Python
by Uche Ogbuji – I planned to conclude my exploration of 4Suite this time, but events since last month’s article led me to discuss some fundamental techniques for Python-XML processing first. First, I consider ways of producing XML output in Python, which might make you wonder what’s wrong with good
dtddoc step 4: Generating HTML
In this last installment of our mini-series on documenting DTDs we finish our dtddoc tool by generating the HTML pages out of the parsed DTD and its annotations. This is the fourth and final step…
Building Internationalized J2EE Web Applications for Disparate Clients
by Rahul Kumar Gupta – Learn an extensible architecture for building internationalized Web applications with J2EE that support not only browsers, but also WAP, iMode, and other client devices.
Final Stretch for W3C XForms
The W3C has announced the publication of XForms 1.0 as a Candidate Recommendation, along with a call for implementations.
Parse HTML with an SGMLReader
SgmlReader is an XmlReader API over any SGML document. A command line utility is also provided which outputs the well formed XML result. HTML is an SGML grammar, so you can use this tool to convert HTML into well-formed XML. The utility was created by Microsoft XML guru Chris Lovett.
Apple ‘Lowers the Bar’ for Web Services Developers
By Darryl K. Taft – Apple Computer Inc. enhanced its support for Web services with the announcement this week of WebObjects 5.2, the company’s Web services development platform.Bob Fraser, Apple’s product manager for WebObjects, said WebObjects 5.2 enables developers to create prototypes in
RDF, What’s It Good For?
by Kendall Grant Clark – The Resource Description Framework is still among the most interesting of W3C technologies. But it’s got persistent troubles, including having had its reputation beaten up unfairly as a result of the many and often nasty fights about RSS. But, just like my eccentric old uncl
Opinion: SWT, XML Put True Cross-platform GUIs Within Reach
by A. Russell Jones – The reality of a single cross-language, cross-platform GUI interface programming model is in sight, based on an XML description language supported by fast native runtimes. Will Mozilla, Eclipse, or someone else step in and complete the last mile that gives all developers a comm
