(Tyler Anderson) Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking Web site that allows users to create and share browser-independent bookmarks, accessible directly over the Internet, in ways your browser won’t allow. The traditional hierarchical organization of browser bookmarks is overhauled, allowing users to
Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML
A Quick Overview of the XML DOM Extension in PHP 5
(Alejandro Gervasio) To be frank, how many times in your life as a PHP developer have you had to deal with XML documents? Probably dozens of times, particularly if you use it to develop PHP applications that implement some kind of web service, or possibly when creating RSS feeds and template files f
Automatic markup and XML pipelines
(Jeni Tennison) The project I’m working on at the moment aims to use RDFa (in XHTML) to expose some of the semantics in some natural-language text. We’re aiming moderately low — marking up dates, addresses, people’s names, and various other more domain-specific things — at least at the moment.
Libxml2: Everything You Need in an XML Library
(Victor Volkman) Libxml2 is the XML parser and toolkit written in the C language and is freely available for integration into your apps via the easy-to-digest MIT License. Libxml2 was originally developed for the Gnome project, but doesn’t have any dependencies on it or even the Linux platform. This
Addressing fragments in REST
(Simon St. Laurent) REST offers a great way to build simple applications that Create, Read, Update, and Delete resources. But what if you want to get at part of a resource?
Xml Serialization
(Boyan Mihailov) If you want to store data, you often use a database. It’s very good way. But, sometimes you need to save too little amount of data that using a database is thoughtless. Another way to store data is to put it in a simple text file. One of the most convenient ways to do this is to use
Modal Dialog Boxes with AJAX
(Dino Esposito) Dialog boxes have been around in Windows for a long time, and they do have their advantages. But if you want your Web application to have dialog boxes, you’re basically stuck with popups, and, as you know, most users disable them with popup blockers. So what are you to do if you need
Introduction to XPath
(Jennifer Kyrnin) XPath is a language designed to address specific parts of an XML document. It was designed to be used by both XSLT and XPointer. In addition, XPath provides basic functions for manipulating strings, numbers, and booleans.
XSLT Case Conversion Solution
(Erich Von Hauske N.) The solution of a problem like case conversion can take many forms, especially when you use a language like XSLT, which gives you the flexibility to give many solutions; each one with a different degree of recursiveness. The solution presented in this document is a middle-groun
Comet: Reverse Ajax for streaming data from the server
(Daniel Rubio) Ajax, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, has become a household name in the area of Web applications, this mechanism by which a browser accesses a RESTful Web service and updates its GUI without a screen refresh, has spread from its pioneering roots in on-line maps and calendars to p
