XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible markup language, meant to store, carry, and exchange data. We can make use of XML as a simple database to store data and retrieve data.

(Jack D Herrington) I was so proud of myself: I held out for an amazing four days before I gave in to the iPhone. Certainly, the fact that my original phone was a piece of junk was a lot of incentive. But what really sold me was the fact that the phone had Wi-Fi built-in and—more importantly—has a g

(Ben Nadel) I like all your xpath stuff you have been doing in ColdFusion. Can you help get the text values of my xml document?

(Elliotte Rusty Harold) I’ve recently been asked by several people to summarize the state of native XML databases for those interested in exploring this space. IMHO, native XML databases are now roughly where relational databases were circa 1994: solid, proven technology that gets the job done but o

(Uche Ogbuji) Web 2.0 is well known for the fact that it’s not built on breathtaking new inventions, but rather on renewed emphasis on age-old Web technologies. One of those age-old technologies that is enjoying a revival in Web 2.0 is bookmarklets. A bookmarklet is essentially a Web application sho

(Marco Gralike) As said in the former post, one of the disadvantages of creating a full blown XMLIndex, indexing on all possible values, is that the size of the XMLIndex is most of the time larger in size then the table itself.

(John Wheeler) This article presents an advanced technique that lets you bind multiple editable line items to a collection using Windows Presentation Foundation and the Presentation Model pattern. It assumes you are familiar with basic WPF data binding techniques as well as design patterns that obje

(Elliotte Rusty Harold) Development of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) stopped in 1999 with HTML 4. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) focused its efforts on changing the underlying syntax of HTML from Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) to Extensible Markup Language (XML), as well as comp

(Dave Linthicum) With the advent of mashups, innovative developers all over the enterprise are seeking new ways to leverage the value of corporate information through the use of external Web applications, APIs, or services. Although the thought of this adventure has sent many corporate security spec

(Frank Coyle) In grade school, learning the rules of grammar is often painful but pays off when one needs to write and speak coherent sentences. When building voice applications, grammars play a similar role as the basis for user communication. Understanding the rules of voice grammars opens the doo