by Javier Lozano – This is a paper written by Don Chamberlin, the father of SQL. It gives a nice overview of Quilt, a query language for heterogenous data sources. The paper goes through and explains how to use the syntax of quilt along how it can be modeled to a mimic a relational database. It has

After parsing XML DTDs with four different software packages, we will look at the resulting data structures in Java, Perl, and PHP, respectively.

by Uche Ogbuji – In this article and the next, I’ll introduce just the basic Python library portion of 4Suite, which includes facilities for XML parsing (complementing PyXML), RELAX NG, XPath, XPatterns, XSLT, RDF, XUpdate and more. If you are unfamiliar with any of these technologies, see the resou

Unleash the full power of xmlspy® 5 – the original XML Development Environment to fully support the designing and editing of all XML technologies; including XML editing and validation, Schema and DTD design, and XSL transformation. xmlspy® 5 builds on the success of the previous award-winning versio

Web services are a highly effective means of enhancing interoperability across heterogeneous platforms. The article Using Web Services Effectively, from the JavaTM BluePrints Program, describes enterprise application environments that benefit from Web service implementations. In this article the int

Transforms can often be made cleaner and clearer if executed in phases or passes. First some intermediate output is produced, and then this is further transformed into a final output form. There can even be more than one intermediate form. In this tip, Uche Ogbuji discusses ways of breaking down XSL

By BERTRAND GOUPIL – Apache Soap is an Apache project which defines the SOAP protocol in Java. This project is based on the source of IBM’s SOAP application, SOAP 4J. The latest version of this implementation, dated May 30, 2001, is version 2.2 of the project. Apache SOAP 2.2 defines almost a

This article describes how to create an Extensible Markup Language (XML) data file from a cursor in Visual FoxPro 6.0.

by Rich Salz – This article is the last in a series examining how one might go about sending binary data as part of a SOAP message. This month we look at BEEP, the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol.

FormBuilder.NET is a free online tool that allows you to create fully functional C# or VB.NET ASP.NET Web Forms using only a browser. No programming experience is needed! Form data can be saved to databases, XML, or sent via email. Behind the scenes, FormBuilder.NET leverages XML and Web Serv