(Nidal Arabi) Sometimes when you deal with textboxes you may need to specify more information than the description. The TextBox Watermark extender is just the control you need.

(Elliotte Rusty Harold) 2007 was another slow year for XML. However, several important specifications did reach 1.0, and XML continued to gain traction in publishing, both Web and traditional. Most important, the slow leak in the Web services ship caused by its collision with the REST iceberg turned

(Rick Jelliffe) The vogue quip that “a camel is a horse designed by committee” probably makes more sense to people who don’t live in a desert country. From here in Australia, camels seem to a very plausible design. It is the speaker, actually, who is wrong: what you need is a camel when you are in t

(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, in the comments on my post about using XML with ColdFusion 8’s new array iteration using CFLoop, Scott Bennett posted an example of using an XmlSearch() as the value being passed to the Array attribute in the CFLoop tag. I don’t know why exactly, but this just struck me as qui

(Benzi K. Ahamed) This article describes a simple mechanism to use to XML serialization within configuration files to support strongly typed configuration items in your projects.

(David Norfolk) Imagine writing an office system today, with no legacy to hold you back. You might build an XML processor which can handle “unstructured” documents (which have lots of structure, of course, as long as you can recognise it) as XML documents and translate other structured formats (part

(Richard Dudley) In today’s business, it’s very common to exchange data with business partners. Most of the information needing to be exchanged resides in a database of some sort. Because of its flexibility and increasing ease of handling, XML has been utilized more and more as the method of infor

(Ben Nadel) I think I found a bug in the way that ColdFusion 8 handles CFLoop array iteration and XML nodes. I was working with some XML over the weekend (yeah baby, I DO know how to fully take advantage of the holiday weekend!) and was doing some simple XML node iteration like this:

(Dante Lorenso) In the last few years, XML has received great media attention, and most languages support the parsing and extraction of data from XML documents. Besides being a great three-letter anacronym to sprinkle on your resumé, XML is actually a useful data storage structure for PHP programmer

(J. Jeffrey Hanson) This tutorial discusses the concepts of REST and the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) and shows how they apply to services. It also shows how to use Java technology to implement REST/APP-based services. (R)