The long-awaited release of Mozilla 1.0 finally arrived this month, after a staggering three year development process. Standards compliance has always been an important goal in Mozilla, and manyfold XML standards have found their way into the product.
Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML
W3C Makes XML Signatures More Portable
By Thor Olavsrud – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) advanced a recommendation critical to the XML family of technologies; a recommendation which is especially important to Web services. Exclusive XML Canonicalization builds on the previous Canonical XML recommendation, enabling the portabi
Processing SOAP Headers
Rich Salz explains how to process SOAP headers and why you’d want to. Along the way he predicts the demise of SAX-based SOAP processors.
The basics of using XML Schema to define elements
[Editorial] This is a great overview of using XML schemas – good, strong how-to piece. [/Editorial] <br><Br> The new XML Schema system aims to provide a rich grammatical structure for XML documents that overcomes the limitations of the DTD. This article demonstrates the flexibility of schemas and
Things to Know and Avoid When Querying XML Documents with XPath
(By Dare Obasanjo, Microsoft Corporation) Inspiration for this article arose from a weekend where nothing that I expected to work on actually panned out. My significant other decided to take a celebratory trip to Las Vegas with a coworker, which coincided quite nicely with my plans to go to Ikea and
Implementing XPath for Wireless Devices, Part II
In this article, Bilal Siddiqui will discuss the features of XPath which allow for complex search operations on an XML file. He will discuss predicates or filtered queries and the use of functions in XPath. He will present various XPath queries for the processing of WSDL and WML. Bilal w
XPointer splits into four pieces
The much delayed XPointer specification has broken into four pieces, including an XPointer Framework and three schemes – xmlns(), element(), and xpointer(), with all but the last in Last Call. <br><br> The new drafts seem to recognize the resistance to earlier versions, and follow some lines for "
Tip: Customize a DTD with parameter entities
By Nicholas Chase – Creating a Document Type Definition (DTD) and using it to validate your document is a good way to ensure that the data fits a particular structure. In some cases, however, you want to give users some control over the structure. Parameter entities enable you to create a structure
Google SVG Search III
Wrapping up our Google API project, we finally convert the Perl script into a CGI and decorate the SVG output with a bit of HTML.
XSH, An XML Editing Shell
by Kip Hampton – A few months ago we briefly examined some of the command line utilities available to users of Perl and XML. This month we will continue in that vein by looking at the 300-pound gorilla of Perl/XML command line tools, Petr Pajas’ intriguing XML::XSH.