(Melonfire) Most of the time, parsing an XML document involves either programming a parser to sequentially traverse an XML document, taking different actions as it encounters different tags (SAX) or building a tree representation of the document in memory and using tree methods to navigate the tree’

(Ben Nadel) Simon Horwith and I have some very different and very strong views on dynamic variable naming and setting conventions. He thinks one thing, I think another; but, at the end of the day, both of us get the job done with our own methodologies. In a conversation that we were having about Col

(Jeni Tennison) This is part 2 of a series exploring implementing a RESTful social bookmarking web service using the XRX (XForms, REST, XQuery) architecture. In the last part I looked at how to set up eXist with a bunch of XML and some queries that provided flexible access to that XML. In this part,

(Kirupa Chinnathambi) In my most recent tutorial, I discuss how to load an XML file into your Silverlight application.and thats it. The tutorial leaves you at a bit of a cliffhanger. You have an XML file loaded into memory with no information on how to go further to do something useful. That is wher

(Thiru Thangarathinam) One of the main benefits of XML is that it separates data from its presentation. Without further elaboration, this claim seems ordinary. However, if you combine XML data with an XSL Transformations (XSLT) style sheet, you will then have a powerful way to dynamically transform

You can now embed XML directly within your Visual Basic code. This can make creating XML messages and executing queries against XML a simple task in VB. To support this feature, VB allows you to write straight XML when using the data types called System.Xml.Linq.XElement and System.Xml.Linq.XDocumen

The fn:distinct-values function returns a sequence of unique atomic values from $arg. Values are compared based on their typed value. Values of different numeric types may be equal, for example the xs:integer value 1 is equal to the xs:decimal value 1.0, so the function only returns one of these val

(Aaron Morton) Its possible to define an XML column as a computed column. And in most cases I think it would make sense to persist the column to save doing all that work again. As Bob Beauchemin points out theres a trick to doing it.

(Tony Patton) SOA and Web services have revolutionized the way we work with Web applications and exchange data, but they can be very difficult to debug problems during development. There are numerous options available depending upon your development environment. The caveat is working with a Web serv

(Joel Amoussou) The schema modeling effort shall be an integrated part of an agile project which implements practices such as user stories, acceptance tests, unit test first, coding, refactoring, pair programming, short iterations, common code base, and continuous integration.