(Anup Shah) In a previous post, I worried about some web frameworks that abstract away the creation of markup, thus preventing (or making it more difficult for) web developers to create what they need — the leaky abstraction.

(Mark Gibbs) Things may come and things may go, but the need to convert data formats will go on forever. That, young Jedi, is one of the eternal verities and, lest you think the conversion nut has been cracked, just consider the volume of responses I received when I mentioned my own reformatting que

(Jimmy Zhang) Traditionally DOM or SAX-based enterprise applications have to repeat CPU-intensive XML parsing when accessing the same documents multiple times. VTD-XML 2.0 introduces a simple general-purpose XML index called VTD+XML (http://vtd-xml.sourceforge.net/persistence.html) that eliminates t

(Leonard Anghel) Inserting an XPath Expression into a Java Application can be very useful if you need to develop a Java application that evaluates a simple XPath expression. Just a copy/paste your own XPath expression and XML document, like this:

(Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp) If you are a web developer and aren’t familiar with the term “REST,” you should know that you regularly work within this software architecture. REST is a term that can describe the interactions that occur between client and server on the World Wide Web. However, as with m

(Armin Ronacher) Imagine for the moment there was a PHP blog software that has the ability to dump the blog posts into some sort of extended RSS 2 feed and import from there later and probably from a different installation. That’s nice, XML is a flexible format and RSS allows extensions via namespac

(Peter Seebach) The OOXML specification has been both criticized and defended by a number of people, leading many to wonder what the big deal is. This article illustrates the basis of technical, rather than political, objections to treating OOXML as a standard.

(Don Bridges and Mikhail Vaysbukh) DITA is a hot topic in the ‘Tech Docs’ arena, and for good reason. DITA is an open standard that addresses many of the needs of technical documentation producers – most notably content reuse needs. The big question for many companies, once they’ve determined that a

(Rick Strahl) Recently I’ve been involved in some work that deals with signed XML documents outside of a WCF Web service environment. Ironically the service that is being accessed accepts SOAP data but the service does not expose any WSDL even though it uses some WS-* specification features – namely

(Nicholas Chase) In this two-part article series, you learn to use both ECMAScript for XML (E4X) and the Prototype JavaScript library to create a simple Ajax mindreader application that plays Twenty Questions and learns about new objects as it goes along. In Part 1, you learned to create a system th