(Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr.) With the ease of XML parsing in the newer Java language APIs, from JAXP to JAXB to JAX-WS, XML parsing has become foundational to Java programming. But with the abstractions and higher-level APIs comes an apparent loss of control over the fine-grained interactions between

(Giovani Salvador) I have been involved in SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) projects and also studying a lot all the aspects of the SOA world. It is interesting that I thought that I knew SOA before working effectively with SOA. More specifically, I thought my knowledge on XML parsing (of course,

(Conor O’Mahony) Many people come here while searching for the best native XML database. Being employed by a vendor with a leading native XML database, I cannot make impartial judgements in this regard. So Im not going to try. I can, however, make sure you you know how easy it is to evaluate my empl

(Adam Roderick) In an orchestration, I was gathering messages representing Order Line Items. Once they were gathered, I would create the Order message, then inject the Order Line Items XML into the Order XML using a helper method. I did not want to create the Order message first, because I needed ce

(Erik Wilde) One of the really convenient features introduced in XSLT 2.0 is Grouping. It is a typical second-generation change in a programming language: Not essential for the language itself (grouping can be done by hand using techniques such as the Muenchian Method), but required by many users an

(Waldek Mastykarz) In my previous article I have presented you a little test case I have made for testing the performance of various data merging approaches. Using an XSLT based method turned out to be the best performing way of merging multiple XML files.

(Sinan Uakl) This document explains the use of namespaces in XML, XSLT and XPath by giving several examples to cover each subject. (pdf)

(Jeni Tennison) This is part 3 of a series in which Im trying to implement a RESTful social bookmarking web service using the XRX (XForms, REST, XQuery) architecture. Ive covered setting up queries in eXist and using Orbeon to expose those queries with nice URLs in the previous parts. This time Im g

(Daniel Rubio) Web services are typically put to use in environments in which resources like memory and disk-space are of little concern, but what happens when such resources are scarce and circumstances still require using Web services? Enter the world of embedded devices, where the ABC’s for using

(Peter Mika) Semantic search has attracted a lot of attention in the past year, largely due to the growth of the semantic web as a whole. The term semantic search itself is popular enough to be considered overused. The term refers to searching large semantic web datasets, which is a typical problem