(Beth Massi) This week TechEd Online posted the TechEd panel I was on with Erick Thompson and Shyam Pather of the SQL Data team. I thought it was a pretty funny panel description they came up with, ala Dr. Strangelove: VB XML Literals for C# developers or: How I learned to stop worrying and love

(Jeni Tennison) I want to explore the XRX (XForms, REST, XQuery) architecture, so Ive set myself the challenge of implementing a social bookmarking web service modelled on del.icio.us as described in Chapter 7 of Leonard Richardsons and Sam Rubys RESTful Web Services, using Orbeon Forms and eXist.

(Chris Catalfo) Lately Ive been thinking about how to represent information about XML paths and data as a string.

(Eric White) Staff Dot Net, a consultancy and training company, is now providing binary builds of the PowerTools for Open XML. You can download the binary build here.

(Elliotte Rusty Harold) XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is one of many XML tools that work well on HTML documents once they have first been converted into well-formed XHTML. In fact, it is one of my favorite such tools, and the first thing I turn to for many tasks. For instance

(Norman Walsh) What I said before still applies: I remain impressed with XQuery as a programming language for building web applications on top of a product like Mark Logic Server.

(Rick Jelliffe) SwiXML is Wolf Paulus XML User Interface languge (XUI or XUL) which uses the regularity of the Java Swing GUI libraries to allow very lightweight implementation: XML elements are used for JComponents, XML attributes are used for properties (e.g. would be JFrame.setS

(Kevin Nilson) AJAX has become so popular because it allows a browser to initiate a request to the server to receive or push data. Pushing data from the server to a client at an undetermined interval has been a problem that AJAX has never been able to deal with well. Simple examples of applications

(Hans Dietrich) Configuration files have now come full-circle in Microsoft’s product roadplan. Originally, .ini files were used to store application-specific data (accessed by GetPrivateProfileXXX() functions) and also system data stored in Win.ini (accessed by GetProfileXXX() functions).

(Edwin Sarmiento) In a recent tip on Language Integrated Query (LINQ), you have described how it can be used as a query language extension to both VB.NET and C#. As XML has become a popular means to store data for ease of interoperability, how do we use LINQ to query XML data?