(Eric Farrar) As the line between the desktop and the web blurs, more applications are taking advantage of the best of both worlds. Adobe AIR and JavaFX are prime examples of frameworks that benefit from this union. However, as services deliver more of an application’s functions, the offline problem

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, platform-independent standard for describing data within a structured format. XML is not a language but instead a metalanguage that allows you to create markup languages. In layman’s terms, it allows data to be tagged using descriptive names so both

(Haissam Abdul Malak) I was working on a project where the user is required to provide his or her own XSL file to generate his or her own HTML page based on an XML file we provide. In this situation, the need to verify that the XSL file will display appropriate results and not an empty page is requi

(Adriaan de Jonge) Service Oriented Architecture usually implies heavyweight technology for large enterprises. The advantages of the SOA architectural pattern also apply to smaller environments. To follow SOA principles, you don’t necessarily need all the overhead that is useful in larger environmen

(Leonard Anghel) Here’s an example of how to use XSLT 2.0’s new character-map element to replace a character (or group of characters) with another character (or group of characters) on the transformation runtime:

(Oleg Tkachenko) Microsoft XML Tools team has released XSLT profiler addin for Visual Studio 2008. I’ve heard about this tool and even did a little testing long time ago (apparently it’s very hard to release anything in Microsoft).

This video is from a talk given by Dan Wahlin at Desert Code Camp in Phoenix, AZ that discussed how Silverlight could be integrated with ASP.NET AJAX to dynamically display albums obtained from an Amazon.com Web Service. The audio in the room wasn’t great since no microphone was used so you may need

(Andy Maleh) In my last post about Glimmerized XML, I talked about one way of authoring mixed element text content. I also talked about two surprises that will make it easy to author mixed content. I’ll go over one of them (the bigger one) in this post, which makes it super easy to create mixed cont

(William Brogden) In the previous article I described how the creators of standards are coping with the industry interest in the REST (Representational State Transfer) style of Web services. I found both new approaches and adaptation of existing standards to include REST. (R)

(Mike Gold) This article describes how you can leverage .NET and XSL as a powerful and flexible means to rendering database reports into your Web Browser.