(Lori MacVittie) AJAX, short for “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML,” is probably one of the most exciting technological improvements in Web-application development to hit the browser in the past few years. Before AJAX, we had to come up with innovative workarounds such as the use of inline frames and

(chrishayuk) This is seriously cool. In my C# I have read an xml file into a byte[] and stored it within the database in a varbinary(max) column.

(Rick Jelliffe) What we want to do is to have a Schematron pattern that just checks a very specific thing: when the use in a document of one element requires that another element immediate follows it.

(Alexander Falk) While Open XML may not yet be an ISO standard, it is already standardized by ECMA and – even more important – all documents created by Office 2007 are already stored in Open XML by default, so there is an abundance of documents whose content you can now reuse much more easily and pr

(Chris Smith) With the public’s attention focused so intently on the results of financial statements, particularly with what’s happening in the mortgage industry, few outside the accounting and IT industries are talking about the technology revolution occurring in the back office affecting how those

(Rick Jelliffe) We can improve on the diagnostics given by the rules in the previous article in this series, Progressive validation for complex content models.

(Jacob D. Eisinger and Vince C. Brunssen) XMLBeans is a great XML-to-Java data-binding technology, but it lacks the ability to register observers for model changes. However, you can customize generated plain old Java objects (POJOs) to include the necessary interfaces and the notification of changes

(Matthew) During daylight hours, I work on a CMS. We use XQuery to transform a lot of our display-agnostic XML content to be more UI-friendly. We use XOM as our XML parser and Nux as a bridge between XOM and Saxon’s XQuery support.

(Blue_Chi) XML can be used to load external data in Flash to provide an easy method for structuring content so that it is easy to understand, process, and update. This tutorial will teach you the basics on how to create a Flash-friendly XML file and how to load and process this XML file in Flash usi

(Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr.) After reading Parts 1 and 2 in this series, you should be comfortable using Castor to convert from XML to Java, and then back again. In this article, you’ll learn to add flexibility to your functionality, through Castor mapping files. You’ll no longer be constrained by the