(Daniel Rubio) Browsers have established themselves as the IT community’s ubiquitous client, even though some still consider their operation feeble for displaying large amounts of data. For better or worse, most applications now a days target the Web — and with it browsers — as a primary delivery

(David A. Cargill and Khaled Noaman) XML is becoming a main staple in data exchange both between applications and on the Web. Learn how to improve the performance of your XML applications by using the Xerces-C++ parser properly. You’ll learn the best ways to use the parser efficiently, and which fea

(Paul C. Brown) Services, on their own, provide no benefit. To get benefit from your services, you need to employ them as an element of a larger process—a process that provides value to your enterprise. Other participants in the process need to interact with the service and benefit from the service

(Brian Riggs) One of the features we’re investigating for the next version of the media player requires that we be able to do client-side XSL transformations. I had heard a few rumors that AIR exposes the XSLT processor that’s built into WebKit (which is AIR’s embedded HTML engine), so I shot off a

(Chris May) One of my pet peeves with Spring is the way that, left unchecked, it can grow yards and yards of inscrutiable XML. Over the last few days, amongst other things, I’ve been looking at whether we can improve things.

(Tim Laverty) We’re thrilled to announce that today the new XML Schema Explorer is included in the Orcas SP1 Beta release for Visual Studio 2008. We previously released a CTP showcasing a subset of the XML Schema Explorer functionality last August. Many of the people who downloaded and tried our Aug

(Mukul Gandhi) Following are some differences between XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0.

(Carlo Innocenti) While EDI transactions account for most worldwide commercial activity, XML-based alternatives are beginning to gain traction. According to Forrester Research, stateful XML, stateless XML, and even flat file exchanges are all projected to grow at a faster rate than EDI over the next

(Brian J. Dillard) Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) techniques have changed the face of large, commercial Web applications, but many smaller Web sites don’t have the resources to rebuild their entire user interface (UI) overnight. New features should justify their costs by solving real-world int

(Deepak Vohra) Storing an XML document in a relational database has its limitations. XML’s hierarchical structures of elements and element attributes do not necessarily map well to relational database structures, which is where an embeddable (non-relational) XML database has its advantages over a re