(Miroslav Kadera) With more and more data being stored in XML, web applications today commonly need some way to view and edit the data stored in an XML file from a web page interface. If the XML data is relatively “flat” and tabular in nature, we can use data Web controls like the DataGrid, GridView

(Peter Mikhalenko) Streaming API for XML (StAX) is an API that allows you to read and write XML documents in Java. StAX is a parser independent, pure Java API based on interfaces that can be implemented by multiple parsers.

(Andrew Matthews) The Semantic Web, a knowledge-centric model for the Web’s future, supplements human-readable documents and XML message formats with data that can be understood and processed by machines. SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) is to the semantic Web as SQL is to a relationa

(Ben Nadel) The other day, Dustin Chesterman asked me about an XML parsing error he was seeing. He was getting the “Content is not allowed in Prolog” XmlParse() error. I have blogged about this error before – it is an exception that is thrown when you try to parse XML that has data or white space pr

(Michael Galpin) Scala is a popular new programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM.) Scala compiles into byte-code and thus it can leverage the Java programming language. Its syntax, however, makes it a powerful alternative to Java code in certain scenarios. One of those scenari

(Kirupa Chinnathambi) I’m a huge fan of LINQ…short for Language Integrated Query. In case you are not familiar with LINQ, in a nutshell, it is a part of C# 3.0 that allows you to (among other things) read and write XML files. Based purely on the XML-specific part of my LINQ description, you may be w

(Ric Johnson) If you put a skill on your resume – you better be prepared to answer some questions about it. Do YOU really know XML?

(Mitchel Haas) Xport, XHTML parsing & objective reporting toolkit, is a C++ template class library, which can be included in any C++ project, to enable the creation and generation of xhtml documents. Although Xport was developed with the idea of creating xhtml documents for reporting purposes, Xport

(Steve Vinoski) Last time, I explored how one of the constraints designed into the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style—the uniform interface—can increase chances for resource and service reuse. Compared to approaches such as Web services and the Web Services Description Langua

(Ben Nadel) Traditionally, when dealing with AJAX, I have only ever had the server return JSON data or formatted HTML data. Then, in the client, I would take that return value and update the DOM using explicit manipulation. However, last night at the New York ColdFusion User Group, Rob Gonda demonst