(Rick Jelliffe) Noah Mendelsohn on XML-DEV got me thinking again about the obvious dual of the recent blogs here: how to convert Schematron into XSD. Putting aside the natural question of why we might want to do this, here’s my stab at an answer.

(Kathleen Dollard) Developers at Microsoft have been busy revolutionizing how we program of late. Nowhere are these changes more evident today than when creating user interfaces (UIs), where, instead of CodeDOM generation of untouchable files, you’ll program with the intrinsically declarative model

(David Mertz) Where possible, creating Web applications — including Ajax-based applications — in a RESTful way avoids a large class of bugs. However, a pitfall of REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is sending duplicate data across similar XMLHttpRequests. This tip shows how the moderate use of s

(Andrej Koelewijn) Oracle’s xquery implementation contains a sqlplus like tool which you can use to run simple xquery statements. You can find the xquery implementation in %JDEV_HOME%/lib. To run it, use the following statement:

(Tony Patton) One thing that makes the Web so interesting is that it’s constantly changing, as new technologies and techniques are introduced on an almost daily basis. A technology that has gathered steam the past couple years is microformats. Microformats allow you to add context to existing inform

(Raymond Camden) Here is a mystery for folks. I’ve updated my parsing engine for coldfusionbloggers.org. I’m using CFHTTP now so I can check Etag type stuff. I take the result text and save it to a file to be parsed by CFFEED.

(Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr.) The Castor project provides data binding capabilities to the open source realm. It works much like Sun’s JAXB, and adds enhanced mapping and binding to relational database tables. In this article, you’ll take the first steps to get Castor to run on your own machine with do

(Sivakumar G.) XGenPlus is a flexible tool to generate typed XML serializers for your .Net applications. It provides more flexibility than the sgen.exe tool combining the efficiency offered by Mvp.Xml.Xgen library.

XML files are very useful. Usually they are used to store configuration settings. We can also use XML files to store data so it can be used as a database. A lot of work has been done in this domain and its really very useful working with XML files.

(Mads Kristensen) The easy way for .NET developers to create an API over HTTP is to use SOAP web services. It’s natively supported by .NET and has rich support for more complex data types such as the DataSet. The problem with SOAP is that it isn’t well supported by other platforms and to consume a .