(Balaji Ramachandran) XML messages have a few intrinsic weakness, that Web Service creators should know about. None of these problems are unique to SOAP; anyone processing incoming XML needs to know and resist these.

(Scott Hanselman) In the May 2006 CTP of Visual Studio there was a great “Paste XML as XElement” feature that didn’t make it into the product. However, seems features can be included as Samples.

(Uche Ogbuji) XML is often used today as a data export and exchange format. In such cases, you might deal with a feed of XML records; sometimes, if this feed, is too long, there are performance problems importing it into another system. As such, you might want to produce only an incremental feed—tha

XML Tools team has released the first CTP of the XML Schema Designer – a graphical tool for working with XML Schemas. You can download it from Microsoft Downloads site. This CTP introduces the Schema Explorer – a tool that helps you navigate, search and work with schema sets. You can view a short v

(Ben) If you have an XML Doc: .. ….123 .. .. ….456 .. I want a list of empid values. I can use XMLSearch to get an array of empids, and loop over it to listappend the values, but I dont

One of the most useful features for a programmer would be Microsoft Excel’s capability to support XML schemas which are user defined. Though it is not a very prominent feature which can be obviously noted it still exists and is very functional tool. In simple English it means that you can add, and m

(Oleg Tkachenko) Here goes nxslt3.exe/NxsltTask v3.0. It’s nxslt tool for .Net 3.5. It can do everything nxslt2/NxsltTask v2.3 can plus the ability to run compiled XSLT stylesheets.

(Ivan Pepelnjak) In the Web 2.0 world, every idea or paradigm has to have a catchy name, and HIJAX (which gets lots of its gleam from the –JAX suffix) is no exception. It definitely sounds better than Progressive Enhancement when using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, which is what HIJAX is all abou

(Dan McCreary) The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) is a United States’ federal data standard for the exchange of XML data between federal, state, and local organizations. The NIEM provides a rich set of universal data elements that non-programmers can use to build semantically precise dat

(Tom Goff) One of the features of our flagship product allows the user to save the results from a T-SQL script (run against one or more SQL Server databases) to a file. These results are stored in XML and can be re-opened and viewed by the user. One problem we have run into is that the XML standard