(Edmon Begoli) Not so long ago, developers had to work directly with the XMLHTTPRequest object or use some very rudimentary libraries to get any AJAX work done. When I wrote my first article about AJAX on DevX in June of 2005, the technology was still in its infancy. Today, at least a dozen freely a

(Moin Moinuddin) Changing market conditions require agility in business applications. Service orientation answers the challenge by centering on XML and Web services standards that revolutionize how developers compose systems and integrate them over distributed networks.

(Alexander Boldakov, Maxim Grinev and Kirill Lisovsky) Document-oriented XML usually has highly irregular structure in which elements might be mixed in unknown way. Processing such XML requires advanced data-driven facilities: push-style processing enriched with transformation rules and side-effect-

(Peter Nehrer) The event iterator-based API provided by Streaming API for XML (StAX) offers a unique blend of advantages over other XML processing methods in terms of both performance and usability. Part 1 introduced StAX and described in detail its cursor-based API. In this article, delve deeper in

(Ed Tittel) This is the second tip in an ongoing series on the Web syndication specifications, tools and technologies. In the previous tip, we introduced the general subject of Web syndication and took a look at the Resource Description Framework, or RDF, specification, which this week’s subject – n

(Tracy Peterson) RSS Syndication is virtually ubiquitous these days, so it’s imperative that a PHP developer at least understand RSS and how it works. This article explains the basics of RSS, some of its many uses, how to use PHP to create an RSS feed from a database, and how to use the XML_RSS modu

(David Talbot) So you want to jump into the AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development fray, but you don’t want to make the XMLHttpRequest calls directly by writing the XMLHttpRequest code yourself. Then you’ve no doubt noticed the new, freely available AJAX libraries that seem to appear eve

(Melonfire) When working with XML-based applications, developers often find themselves facing the requirement to generate XML-encoded data structures on the fly. Examples of this include an XML order template based on user input in a Web form, or an XML representation of a server request or client r

(Tyler Anderson) Uploading files is a fairly common task using HTML forms, but how do you do it in XForms, where the data gets stored as part of an XML document? This tip explains how to create an XForms form that enables the user to upload a file, and it explains how to create a Java™ servlet that

(Michael Meehan) A return to the heady notion of business-to-business integration was featured during a session yesterday at the XML 2006 conference. The Danish government plans on instituting a massive service-oriented e-commerce network by late 2007 that will generate Universal Business Language (