(James Snell) The previous installment in this series presented a brief walk-through of the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP). This article continues the introduction of the protocol by demonstrating how you can use it to interact with a number of real-world deployed applications.

(Cliff Binstock) While the built-in datatypes and constraining facets are a great start, they are often insufficient, especially for string values. Regular expressions provide a powerful mechanism for restricting data values in XML.

(Elliotte Rusty Harold) The Xalan XSLT processor can invoke almost any method in almost any Java™ class in the classpath. Doing so can improve performance, provide features like trigonometric functions that aren’t available in XSLT, perform file I/O, talk to databases and network servers, or impleme

(Matthijs Breebaart) An increasing amount of information is published for free on the internet. It is tempting for customers of commercial publishers to try to leverage this free information. However, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Knowledge workers continue to rely on the specialized bits

(Adam Scheinberg) We are on the brink of a very exciting time. The buzzword-friendly “Web 2.0” is here, and it’s most punctuated by three terms: social networking, AJAX, and RSS. Nothing about these things is inherently new – AJAX existed as an ActiveX control present in Microsoft’s Outlook Web Acce

(Brett McLaughlin) I don’t really enjoy writing articles that are primarily about something that you shouldn’t do. Most of the time, it’s a pretty silly type of thing to write. I spend half an article explaining something, just so I can spend the rest of the article explaining what a bad idea it is

(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) If you’re a VB programmer interested in learning how to parse and process XML documents, and use them in your applications, this article can help. You’ll learn about MSXML properties, how to create an XML document using VB 6.0, and more.

(Hannah Smalltree) Competitive context is critical for financial data. A company’s revenues and costs have new meaning when stacked up against its competitors’ numbers. So for years, organizations have benchmarked performance by manually comparing financial results with those of competitors to g

(Kevin Kelly, Jan J. Kratky and Steve K Speicher) XForms is an ideal open standards technology for collecting and submitting data from a wide variety of Web-capable platforms. Creating a single input form for collecting data from many sources is common. However, each location filling out the form ma

(Keyar Srinivasan) Transforming an XML document using XSL/T and outputting the results to the browser is a fairly simple task in ASP.NET. The following user control demonstrates the ease with which this can be accomplished. This user control has a parameter for the XML source(xmlSource), and a param