By Brett McLaughlin – This tip explains how using an InputStream to feed XML to the SAX API is significantly more efficient and safer than using a Reader as input. It also briefly touches on the impact of such a choice on internationalization.
Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML
Registration and Discovery of Web Services Using JAXR with XML Registries such as UDDI and ebXML
By Qusay H. Mahmoud – Businesses can describe their Web services on the Internet using an XML-based language, such as the Web Services Description Language (WSDL), or simple plain text, and list them in an XML-based registry such as Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI), or the el
XML Events, XHTML in W3C XML Schema
The W3C HTML Working Group has released two new working drafts, XML Events and Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema, along with the jointly produced XHTML+MathML+SVG Profile.
Data Types Undefined in XML Schema?
The XML Schema Working Group was tasked with adding the two most important pieces to the XML puzzle: Schema Definitions and a Data Type Libary. Criticism rises now as more and more people work with the resulting specifications, including XML Schema part 2: Datatypes.
Top Ten Tips to Using XPath and XPointer
by John E. Simpson – XPath and XPointer allow XML developers and document authors to find and manipulate specific needles of content in an XML document’s haystack. From mindful use of predicates, to processor efficiency, to exploring both the standards themselves and extensions to them, this article
Jacada Adds Web Services To Integration Platform
Jacada Ltd., a developer of enterprise application integration software, said it has made available Jacada Integrator 3.6, with full support for Web services protocols.Jacada Integrator creates reusable components out of applications running on IBM zSeries mainframe, IBM iSeries midrange com
POSTing data with Microsoft.XMLHTTP
The most common operation XMLHTTP is used for is to retrive data, whether it be XML or something else, from remote servers via HTTP. It’s a useful trick to have, especially in these days of RDF/RSS feeds and so on, but the second method which XMLHTTP can be used for is perhaps one with less obvious
The Absent Yet Present Link
by Kendall Grant Clark – In last week’s column, ” XHTML 2.0: The Latest Trick”, I described the next step in the evolution of XHTML, at least according to the 5 August XHTML 2.0 working draft. As is often the case, however, reaction to a new W3C specification, even a very early draft, exposed
An ASP Class for XML Data Transfer
By Seth Juarez – Hey, I wrote the “A Couple of ASP Functions for XML Data Transfer” functions and, as any self-respecting programmer, was unhappy with its stiffness. I decided enough is enough and created an actual class that handles more things. clsXML.asp is the actual class and objXML.asp is an i
Tip: Include external information with general entities
By Nicholas Chase – General entities enable XML authors to conveniently include not only characters that would be difficult to represent directly, but also information that must be repeated. They also enable you to import information from another file, as well as from another location. This tip show
