(Dan McCreary) Is it easier to teach XSLT or XQuery to an experienced SQL developer? My recent training experiences indicates that XQuery is easier to learn.
Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML
XForms and Ruby on Rails at the doctor’s office, Part 4: Implementing the doctor and patient lookup XForms
(Tyler Anderson) This is the fourth article in a four-part series about using XForms, IBM DB2 pureXML, and Ruby together to more easily create Web applications. In this series you will develop a hypothetical application for managing patient information at a doctor’s office. You will get a taste of t
XML: How to get the benefits without the heartache, part 2
(Sean McGrath) This is the second part of a two-part article about XML. The first part talked about ways to benefit from XML without taking on too much heartache in the sphere of application configuration files, machine-oriented data exchange, that sort of thing. In this part, I concentrate on using
Character Set used for HTML, XSLT, XML
(Chinnu21) Following is the table containing entities or characters used for referencing in HTML, XSLT, and XML as a complete reference. In HTML, you can use specific code references to display special characters. As example is used to place a space in your text, in other words, a non-breakin
Querying contents of XML using XPATH
(Ashish Basran) This can be used to query XML document and get value of particular node with iterating through all the nodes. It would be same as we use SQL query to get data from database.
XML: How to get the benefits without the heartache, part 1
(Sean McGrath) First up, a scope warning for this article. This is the first part of a two-part piece about XML. Here I focus on uses of XML in areas such as application configuration files, the exchange of structured, machine-oriented data, that sort of thing. In the second part, I discuss XML in d
Marsa : A 3D Approach to XML read data
(Sacha Barber and marlongrech) A while back one of my web buddies sent me a link to an excellent image and video addin for a web browser. It is called PicLens. And someone also left a note in the forum of one of my other articles saying how simliar it was. At the time I had not seen PicLens so […]
Light Up the Web: Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live
(Rob Blackwell) In summer 2007, Microsoft released version 1.0 of Silverlight, a revolutionary way to build rich interactive experiences on the web. Silverlight is a cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in that extends the browser’s Document Object Model (DOM) with vector graphics and multimedia featu
Why use more that XSLT for testing XSLT?
(tkg) Why should you prefer an XSLT unit testing framework that uses more that just XSLT? Two reasons: xsl:message and multiple output documents.
Traversing XML in .NET
(Schalk Neethling) If you ever need to traverse each xml element in an xml document , you may want to implement your own XmlEnumerable. I’ve had some issues with the .NET XML API recently. The built in .NET XmlElement implements the non generic IEnumerable which means you’ve got to foreach through a
