(Dan Wilson) Duplicating code is Bad! When designing software, take great pains to avoid duplication of code. After all, if an application has a lot of duplicated logic, or cut/pasted processes, it is very easy for parts of the system to get out of wack. A small tweak here, a short change there and

(Dan McCreary) This article examines several methods of calculating the Return on Investment (ROI) of adopting enterprise-wide XForms standards. Explore ROI analysis from several different viewpoints, including the standards perspective and issues around vendor lock-in avoidance strategies. Learn ab

(Jennifer Kyrnin) Last week we discussed the basics of XSLT. You saw that with a simple text document and an XSLT processor you could convert an XML document into HTML. But that was a really basic document. Most XML documents have much more than one entity. They often have multiple nested entities a

(Gal Shachor, Ksenya Kveler and Maya Barnea) In this article, Part 2 of the series, the authors put your newly gained knowledge into practice by starting the development of a simple Dojo and Atom-based blog reader.

As seen in the previous lessons, XML is used to describe data using objects called nodes that are arranged as an upside-down tree with a root element, optional branches, and optional leaves.

(Ben Nadel) Earlier today, Jacob Munson brought up the task of outputting an XML menu (as HTML) without knowing ahead of time how deeply nested the menus and sub menus might be. As I have been doing a lot with both recursion and XSLT (XML transformations) in ColdFusion lately, it was the first thing

(Anghel Leonard) Wrapping the result of an XQuery query into an XML document is very useful if you’re working with atomic values. The following Java program uses the net.sf.saxon.om.SequenceIterator and net.sf.saxon.query.QueryResult classes to do this:

(David Mertz) It takes some finesse to make the best use of asynchronous callbacks for Ajax data sources in JavaScript applications. This tip discusses why you should use asynchronous callbacks for Ajax data sources and gives examples of coordinating the readiness of mutually dependent application d

(MarkGwilliam) This is a very short article simply to describe some useful serialization helper classes that I’ve used for quite a while and thought I would share. The classes allow single line calls to serialize and deserialize using either the XML or the WCF serializers. Nothing special or tricky

(Bill) A couple of weeks ago I wrote about XML Namespace issues in VB: one in particular was to do with namespace declarations being repeated in the output XML. In those cases we only looked at common namespaces for the entire document.