(Bryan Rasmussen) It’s pretty easy to do a denial of service attack on parsers by nesting elements too deep or putting too many elements into your XML instance for the parser to deal with, as long as the parser fails gracefully in such a situation it isn’t a problem. More advanced attacks exist usin
Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML
Enable WPF/Windows Forms Interoperability with WPF Commands
(Rich Quackenbush) Suppose you’ve been given the green light to use Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in the latest version of your user interface. There’s just one snagnot all the third party controls critical to your application have a WPF version. Fortunately, WPF has excellent support for le
Viral Video – Monday
(Conor O’Mahony) This is the first in a series of three viral videos that show off IBMs sense of humor, showcase the pureXML capabilities, and highlight IBMs focus on green technology. Ill post episodes two and three when they become available. I hope you enjoy.
How should I represent raw XML content in a contract?
(Nicholas Allen) It seems like it would be really easy to have within the large blob of XML that makes up a message, a small blob of XML. However, it’s more challenging to deal with that situation than you might expect because that small blob of XML has to be handled unlike everything else. With mos
Should you prevent malicious XML traffic with a firewall?
(Kenneth Graf) We are all familiar with a basic firewall; limiting the ports and protocols that are available to the outside world. And many firewall vendors are pushing deep packet inspection as a way to further control access by analyzing the data sent and received.
Creating an XML IDE with eclipse
(David Carver) I’m an XML architect by day. It basically means that I sleep, eat, and breathe XML and XML related specifications. I also have to support over 40 member companies with their implementations of the standards I produce. So I need an XML IDE to help with the job.
Leveraging Silverlight 2 with SQL Server and XML
(Cal Schrotenboer and Joe Gershgorin) As businessmen who also happen to be developers, we’re constantly on the lookout for technology to help us market and sell our “DrinkMate” product. A DrinkMate, in case you were wondering, is a little plastic clip that slips onto the side of your plate at a part
Hack for enforcing cache of XmlDataSource invalidate
(percyboy) We often use the XmlDataSource control together with the TreeView control. If the data source is static, it works quite well. But when the data source needs to be dynamic, there seems to be some problems. This article will introduce one problem and give you a hack solution.
Dealing with ‘primitive’ XML
(Ernie Ostic) Yesterday I encounted an interesting XML scenario. One Ive seen before, but not in awhile. It began as many do, with questions regarding the import of XML metadata. Our importer was having problems reading the structure, and the issue trickled onto my desk. Upon further inspectio
To Parse or Not To Parse
(Stephane Raynaud) Extensible Markup Language (XML) is everywhere, from configuration files for everyday software applications to advanced information-exchange technologies. Even car navigation systems use it. So how can native coders exist in this world and leverage the data in XML documents?
