(Michael Sorens) The general-purpose XML transformer and/or validator discussed here, named “XmlTransform” operates on an arbitrarily deep directory tree containing files you want to transform. As output it optionally generates multi-level indices and can even add navigational linkages.

(Ric Hardacre) The Web is full of data: statistics, surveys, and reports can be found on almost any topic you care to search for. It’s this very fact that makes the Web the first stop in anyone’s research. Want to know the average number of petals on a daisy? Thirty-four. The number of species of wh

(Senthil Nathan) RSS (Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication) has been around since the mid-1990s. Over the years, several variants of the RSS format have popped up and several claims have been made about its ownership. Despite these differences, RSS never ceased to serve

(Jeni Tennison) Michael Sperberg McQueen (CMSMcQ) has written a couple of interesting posts about datatypes in W3C’s XML Schema (XSDL). (The second is a response to a comment from John Cowan, and attempts to justify some of the seemingly arbitrary decisions made in the set of datatypes present in XS

(Daniel Ehrenberg) I’ve said bad things about my job working on Carleton College’s website, but fundamentally it’s a really sound work environment we have. Just before winter break, one of the full-time employees came to me and asked if I could make a diff between two XHTML documents for use in Carl

(Jack D Herrington) Augmenting your HTML forms with Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) callbacks to the server is a practical way to add Web 2.0 functionality to your application. Discover a variety of techniques to add Ajax code and enhance the user experience for PHP applications.

(Tony Patton) I have covered the basics about .NET Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) and provided information on working with a SQL Server backend via LINQ. This article focuses on what I think is one of the more exciting aspects of the LINQ technology: working with XML. LINQ to XML offers a cleaner

(Simon St. Laurent) I’m happy to report that Ruby on Rails not only offers a comfortable way to develop web applications, but that a little-noticed feature makes some formerly theoretical open approaches to XML much more immediately practical.

(Jeni Tennison) The first of what will probably become a series of posts where I answer publicly questions that people post me privately (with permission, of course)… How should I model (and store) data for Courses, while being able to pull info about a Course into a particular context (a Semeste

Young Yang) Tracking data changes is an essential requirement in many software, application, and business-integration scenarios. Rigorously implementing this requirement is relatively difficult because modeling and working with the delta for typical changes is generally very involved. On the other h