(Anthony Coates) Any of you who have written W3C XML Schemas will know that there are two mechanisms for sharing Schema definitions across files. is used like traditional programming language “include” statements, so that you can split a single large file up into separate, modular piec

(Hans Dietrich) Everyone is familiar with tree controls: every time you open Windows Explorer, you see file system hierarchy as a tree. Another kind of tree is used by some programs, such as installers, to allow you to select options to install. When all options of a particular subtree are selected,

(Wouter van Vugt) I have just returned from an MSDN InTrack session over here in the Microsoft Technology Center about Office Open XML and I wanted to share one of the demos I created for this event with you. The demo app extracts XML data from an XML-mapped WordprocessingML document. Note that this

(Wim Martens and Frank Neven) Typechecking consists of statically verifying whether the output of an XML transformation is always conform to an output type for documents satisfying a given input type. We focus on complete algorithms which always produce the correct answer. We consider top–down XML t

(Jeffrey Palermo) Linq (and all its flavors) will come out with .Net 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Along with the Xml support are classes such as XDocument, XElement, XAttribute, etc. What’s interesting about XElement in particular is that it allows us to load some Xml from many sources and query into

(Uche Ogbuji) Whether you’re an admirer of AJAX, or one who can’t stand all the hype, if you’re a web developer you must admit that it’s proven very useful in driving explosive competition among JavaScript utility libraries. And the embarrassment of riches keeps on growing. jQuery emerged a couple o

(Eran Chinthaka) The implementation and invocation of asynchronous Web services is important to application development. UIs, which expose functionalities of Web services, have become increasingly interactive. As a result, asynchronous invocations and implementations have become more useful and effe

(Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) Passing arrays of values as SQL parameters has always been troublesome in T-SQL. In SQL Server 2005, the XML data type can help simulate arrays.

(Ivan Pepelnjak) Unless you work in a highly rigid, well-structured environment, you’ve probably had situations in which you have to store objects with widely different descriptions (properties, attributes, fields… whatever you call them) into the same relational database table.

XSLT allows you to create formatting structures which interpret and modify the existing XML elements. Learn about the syntax of XSLT elements, how the namespace attribute differs depending on the browser in use, and how to transform original XML elements.