(Tugdual Grall) With XML and SOA becoming mainstream in the enterprise XML operation such as Schema validations, XSL transformations are now very common. These specific operations are CPU intensive and could become a performance bottleneck when directly applied on the middleware. It could be even wo

(Vikram Vaswani) The Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL) lets document authors provide more information about resources used within an XHTML document. Parse these RDDL descriptors with an API in the XML_RDDL package from PEAR, and extract resource information for use in any PHP applicatio

(Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr.) In the last article of this series, you downloaded, installed, and set up Castor. In this article, you’ll learn how to convert your Java classes to XML and transform that XML back into Java code, as well as how Castor works and how to design your classes to function well w

(Ganesh Prasad) I’ve been playing with E4X for a few days now. I never realised that manipulating XML could be so easy. No heavyweight API like JAXB or its marginally simpler cousin JDOM. E4X is just so simple and natural, with XPath-like expressions being part of the basic syntax. A pity Java has n

(Matthew Ellis) In this article we’ll examine the ASP.NET AJAX serialization process. We will examine the server-side methods and client-side methods which serialize and deserialize objects.

(Calvin Hsia) Here’s a sample of creating dynamic XAML to display arbitrary XML.

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a protocol that can be used for accessing the Web pages. SOAP or Simple Object Access Protocol is an XML based Object invocation Protocol. SOAP was developed for distributed applications to communicate through HTTP and firewalls. SOAP is platform independent a

(Rita Knox) Given XML’s derivation from Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML), publishing applications seemed to be its most obvious use. Although many XML-based publishing products were released, there was little interest or adoption beyond for-profit publishing.

(David Decraene) The OWL-language (web ontology language) is a recommendation by the W3C. OWL is a language that allows proper definition and representation of Ontologies. It is supposed to form the foundation of the next generation of the internet: the semantic web (a.k.a. web3.0). Unfortunately, e

(Jack Herrington) Your web services interface, be it in whatever format—XML/RPC, SOAP, even JSON—is not mashup friendly. Let me ask you a question, what is the gold standard of mashupable widgets? For many that would have to be Google Maps, arguably the first truly mashupable widget that really took