(Grace Walker) Learn to use ECMAScript (aka JavaScript) for XML (E4X), and discover the capabilities of the E4X enhancement, which was designed to facilitate simple and easy parsing, calculating, editing, and related activities on XML data.

(Martin Mihaylov) When working with data, it often comes in an XML format. So we have to serialize and deserialize it in order to use it. There are several ways of doing that for example: DOM, XQuery, XSLT. DOM is the oldest from the three, but still can do the work. XQuery and XSLT are not very ea

(Marco Gralike) I just read Thomas Kyte s blog post Read This, which is dealing with the content of the blog post of Cary Millsap. As Tom phrased it:

(Conor O’Mahony) Are you evaluating XML database vendors? If so, here is a list of questions that can help you when you evaluate vendors. Of course, some questions may not apply to your situation. For instance, update capabilities may not be necessary in audit and logging systems. You can weed que

(Eric Larson) The other day a coworker asked about a simple way to format an XML file. Basically, he just wanted to get some nicely indented output to look at. At first he try get things working with Eclipse’s XML editor. From what I undersand it worked, it is a pretty heavy weight solution to get s

(Andrew Welch) Rather than mess around with loads of assertions to check your co-constraints, XML Schema 1.1 introduces the xs:alternative instruction which allows you to change the type used to validate the element based on some condition. Instead of defining one type and then adding assertions to

(Marc Van Cappellen) In this second post of the XQuery for the SQL programmer series well explain how to represent relational tables in XML and query them through XQuery.

(Harikrishna S. Aravapalli) Dimensional data modeling for data warehousing is a well-known technique and has been explained in great depth. These dimensional modeling techniques focus mainly on the data of the organization and how to organize it across multiple dimensions and facts. It is important

(Marco Gralike) Sometimes you will have to load data from huge XML files into the database. So how do you achieve this?

(Joe Pluta) Passing business data from one machine to another has always been one of the more difficult issues, but one of the most common standards today is XML. XML has a number of features that make it very powerful for data interchange but that don’t mesh with the fixed records and fields of tra