(Richard Adhikari) Mention the Semantic Web, and some people think it’s going to be a little slice of heaven, while others see it as the end of the world.

(Sujit Pal) I needed some data to build an ontology, so I downloaded a sample wine ontology from W3C. The file is in OWL (Web Ontology Language) XML format, so I needed to parse it. Ordinarily, I would have used JDOM to parse it, but I had recently heard some good things about XML pull-parsing from

(Dan McCreary) XRX is a new web development architecture that is a milestone in elegant simplicity. XRX stands for: XForms on the client REST interfaces and XQuery on the server

(Ben Nadel) In my previous post, I explored the issues associated with non-existent text nodes in ColdFusion XML documents. Because non-existent text nodes, like NULL values in SQL, cannot be compared to values for equality or inequality, it sometimes becomes necessary to check for the very existenc

(dB Masters) Web Services, as described in other areas of this blog and on the web, are basically a handy way of sharing data between web sites. Open directories such as DMOZ, for example, provide XML feeds of their directories, so other sites can grab those feeds, and create a branded version of th

(Giuseppe Recalcati) In the past, I was involved in managing problems related to client-server architecture and, in particular, to the fact that a common client application needs to know exactly the structures received from a server to manage them.

(Steve Apiki) Everybody likes buttons—everybody needs buttons—so it’s not surprising that the premier of buttons and other visual controls in Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 was the subject of headlines. Not everybody’s Silverlight application will need to manipulate the DOM, or use local storage,

(Rich Seeley) Rails 2.0, the latest version of the framework for the Ruby language, is made for doing REST applications, says Mike Clark, author of the newly released “Advanced Rails Recipes: 84 New Ways to Build Stunning Rails Apps”. (R)

(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I was working on an audit tracker that stored updates in an XML document when I came across an XML behavior that I didn’t know about. Apparently, not all element nodes in an XML document have to have a nested text node. Now, when you think about this, this makes some sense; ho

(Micah Dubinko) If you are used to XSLT 1.0 and XForms, you see { $book/bk:title } and think nothing of it. XSLT 1.0 calls the curly-brace construct an Attribute Value Template, which is pretty descriptive of where it’s used. Always in an attribute, always converted into a string, even if you are ac