(Xianzhong Zhu) When developing a real ASP.NET AJAX framework based web application, we often need to beautify the web pages to attract more web surfers besides giving them the professional and consolidated functions. With the characteristic behaviors and animated controls supplied by ASP.NET AJAX

(Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr.) For programmers newer to the Java and XML scene, or who come to XML through the lens of Sun and the J2SE, it’s worth briefly remembering JAXP in its earliest days. At that stage, JAXP was the third API to the Java and XML party, following (well) after the introduction and

(Marco Gralike) The following is an extension on the former post about “About Table(XMLSequence()) and XMLTable”. These examples where based on a XMLType column using CLOB storage. If you have read the “Oracle 11g – XMLType Storage Options“, then you should now know that this storage model is only p

(David C. Hay) XML is a perfectly good vehicle for describing data to be transmitted from one place to another. It is not so good for describing the semantics – the nature of – the underlying data. It cannot replace data modeling and sound database design.

(jcoon) At work, I find myself constantly having to view XML files. Some of the files I work with are extremely large (150MB+). Internet Explorer and Firefox take forever to open these files. I like the way Visual Studio 2005 provides the ability expand/collapse individual elements, collapse or expa

(Abdul Allam and Andre Tost) Web services are a key ingredient of service-oriented computing and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Interactions between service consumers and service providers are primarily message-based. The structure of these messages is defined in a service’s interface definiti

(Laurent Bovet) Sometimes it seems you spend more time manipulating XML files than you do writing Java code, so it makes sense to have one or two XML wranglers in your toolbox. In this article, Laurent Bovet gets you started with XmlMerge, an open source tool that lets you use XPath declarations to

(Nicholas Chase) An Atom service document is for more than just telling readers where to find a site’s feeds. This article shows you how to use this introspection document to create a sidebar that provides a window into everything your server has to offer. This article uses the Blogapps server, whic

(Marco Gralike) A customer asked me how this XMLTable XML function works… Until now they had to use the TABLE(XMLSEQUENCE()) constructor.

An element in an XML document is an object that starts with a start-tag, may contain a value, and may end with an end-tag. Based on this, the combination of a start-tag, the value, and the end-tag is called an element. An element can be more than that but for now, we will consider that an element is