(Scott Hanselman) A fellow emailed me earlier asking how to get the namespaces from an XML document, but he was having trouble because the XML had some XML declarations like .

(Dave Johnson) I was reviewing some code today and came across something that seemed very strange. There is a method we use for removing all the child nodes of a parent node in an XML document and it looked like this:

(Adam Pilkington) When you create browser-based applications that display XML data feeds, you often need to code the data-retrieval mechanism and the user interface. Mozilla Firefox provides an infrastructure that frees you from these tasks, so you can concentrate on your application’s functionality

(Dare Obasanjo) I’ve noticed a meme that seems to have been going around in various blogs of folks who continue to indulge in the long since dead REST vs. SOAP discussion. This meme is that (i) you don’t want or need an interface definition language if you are building a RESTful Web Service and (ii)

(Dan Wahlin) Silverlight provides linear and radial gradient capabilities that allow different types of shapes to be filled with a range of colors. Linear gradients show colors along a line (refer to my previous article for additional information) while radial gradients show colors within a circle.

(Maximo Gurmendez) Learn about, try, and contribute to a new open source tool — jpa2web — which generates J2EE Ajax-based Web applications from JPA-annotated beans. Using the ZK framework, the applications generated by this tool allow your users to add, delete, search, modify, and interconnect insta

(juditt) Nowadays, XML is usually thought of as a markup technique utilized by programmers to encode computer-oriented data. According to David Mertz, even DocBook and similar document-oriented DTDs focus on preparation of technical documentation. However, the real roots of XML are in the SGML commu

(Leonard Anghel) When you want to determine the order of articles into an sequence returned by an XQuery query, you can use the > operators: – X > Y: is true if Y is before X;

(Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr.) Back end processing — server-side scripts and programs — can’t always be tossed into an Ajax application and behave well. Instead, careful planning to ensure data is sent in an appropriate and efficient form ensures your entire application is cohesive, rather than needless

(Pan Pantziarka) Groovy, unlike Java, provides a relatively streamlined way to read and write XML documents. In the first part of my two-piece tutorial, I looked at how you can use Groovy’s flexible strings, closures and iterators to quickly create XML fragments and files.