(Rich Seeley) Sometimes hype is justified. That appears to be the case with Ajax. (R)

(Stephen B. Morris) This tutorial — the sixth in the series — introduces two key elements of the IBM Autonomic Integrated Development Environment (AIDE): Apache Tomcat and Axis. Discover tooling-related gaps that the AIDE online help doesn’t cover so that you can become more comfortable with the w

(Ajay Raina and John Jimenez) Making asynchronous HTTP requests from Webpages is an effective technique in bringing seemingly static pages to life. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) has become a popular technology in creating richer and more dynamic Web clients, and is often used to incorporate

(David Marston and Joanne Tong) XSLT 2.0, the latest specification released by the W3C, is a language for transforming XML documents. It includes numerous new features, with some specifically designed to address shortcomings in XSLT 1.0. This collection of articles provides a high-level overview and

(Daniel Rubio) With XML serving as a catalyst, Web services have allowed many organizations to expose as well as access many resources that in years past might have been considered difficult to share. In hindsight, the actual process of sharing resources in a distributed fashion is something that ha

(Jon Udell) If you set out to explore XQuery, the XML query language, you’ll soon encounter a collection of examples, or use-cases, that show how XQuery can query and transform XML data. These scenarios are elaborated in a W3C document that presents a sample data set — about books, authors, prices,

(Wei-Meng Lee) Most Windows users are familiar with tool tips—the little “balloon” that pops up when you position your mouse over an icon. Tool tips are very useful user interface (UI) enhancements that display additional information about the current object of interest. On the Web, the equivalent o

(Uche Ogbuji) IBM Systems Journal recently published an issue dedicated to XML’s 10th anniversary. It is primarily a collection of interesting papers for XML application techniques, but some of its articles offer general discussion of the technical, economic and even cultural effects of XML. There i

(Sudipta Sankar Das) This simple program demostrate how to create well formatted MS Word documents using VB.Net, XML and XSLT. Using XSLT to create Word document requires the knowledge of RTF key words. RTF specification is available in MSDN site.

(Ed Tittel) Traditionally, XML serves two primary purposes (and serves them very well, in fact): –XML provides wonderful tools for defining and enforcing document structure and organization, and for presenting the content inside such documents –XML supports explicit, complete and well-structu