By Matt Berger – True to the adage, content is still king, according to Patricia Seybold, a noted publishing industry analyst and chief executive of her self-titled consulting and analyst company in Boston. However, new technologies are redefining what the publishing industry should consider content
Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML
Finding the Right Formula For UDDI
By Jeffrey Schwartz – As customers start using Web services to link disparate applications, they will need a way to efficiently organize and keep track of all those Web services. Most experts believe they will do that through repositories based on a specification called universal description and dis
UDDI: Looking Up Web Services
By RUSSELL KAY – There is Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), a standards-based system for registering Web services.
Simple Text Wrapping
by Antoine Quint – Looking through the chapter we can see a number of appealing text features: precise text positioning, support for bidirectional text, text on a path, and so on. However, you’ll find that text wrapping is missing. Let’s see what can be done with the current set of SVG 1.0 features
XML Matters: Roundup of XML editors, Part 2
By David Mertz – This second part of David’s XML editor review looks at Windows-based products — specifically, Altova’s XML Spy, Wattle Software’s XMLwriter, NetBryx Technologies’ EditML Pro, and Corel’s XMetal. In the year and a half since David’s last look at this category of tools, they have pro
OASIS to Aid Web Services Management
By Darryl K. Taft – The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or OASIS, standards consortium Tuesday announced the formation of a technical committee to facilitate distributed systems management over the Internet. Called the OASIS Management Protocol Technical
DocBookDoclet: HTML/Javadoc to DocBook XML
Michael Fuchs has released version 0.29 of DocBookDoclet, a Java application for converting HTML files and Java source documentation to DocBook XML. This release adds internationalization support.
Converting between XML Schema and CLR Types using the XmlConvert Class
This sample application demonstrates how to use the XmlConvert class to convert from XML Schema data types to corresponding CLR types (and vice versa), and shows how to use the EncodeName() method to ensure that dynamically created XML element and attribute names do not contain prohibited characters
Discover the Useful System.Xml.Schema Classes
by Dan Wahlin – Schemas handle functionality related to XML, ADO.NET, Web services, and more. Learn the main classes within the System.Xml.Schema namespace to programmatically manipulate schemas in .NET.
What Are Topic Maps?
by Lars Marius Garshol – Many years ago, I started looking into SGML and XML as a way to make information more manageable and findable, which was something I had been working on for a long time. It took me several years to discover that, although SGML and XML helped, they did not actually solve the
