(Scott Nesbitt) One of the necessary evils of software development is documentation, which can include printed and electronic manuals, online help, and detailed information for programmers. For technical writers, the actual writing of the documentation is only a small part of the job. They’re also c

(Tyler Anderson) Standard HTML forms are hard, if not impossible, to nest within each other. They lack the power that XForms has, because XForms uses XML. This tip shows you how to nest multiple, hierarchical forms within an XForm form.

(Eliot Kimber) The recent comment about XTM (XML Topic Maps) reminded me that I ought to express a thought I’ve been having about topic maps for a long time.

(Ed Tittel) Those who’ve been knocking around the XML or Web development communities for any length of time have come across the work of James Clark, if not evidence of the man himself. His is a pretty fascinating story, which you can read more about on his bio page. (R)

(Nicholas Chase) Forms are typically used to request simple, individual pieces of information, such as names and phone numbers, from users. Frequently, however, you need to be able to request that the user send some sort of file along with the submission. This tip shows you how to use the XForms upl

(Patrick.Alex) I have created an Excel Export component using XSL and XML which can produce very well formatted Excel files. This doesn’t require any Excel library to create Excel files without charts and macros, but if you want charts or macros in the Excel, then you have to have Excel installed on

(Nay Lin) WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6 (WebSphere ESB) provides common connectivity between service consumers and providers in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). WebSphere ESB mediation flow components perform mediations between consumer and provider services to virtualize service locatio

(Keyvan Nayyeri) If you have worked with old (for now, it is better to say “current”) graphic engines to design a dynamic animation for your user interface, surely you know it can be a time consuming task which needs hard coding.

(Adam Wiener) I’ve been working closely with the IE team leading up to the release of IE7 and looking at the use of XML in the browser. During this investigation one thing has become immediately obvious – there is a lot of confusion around the versioning story for MSXML and how to instantiate the “

(Nicholas Chase) XForms is about collecting data, but it is also about improving the user experience. In some cases, you need to provide additional information to the user outside of the actual form. In traditional Web pages, you accomplish this through the use of alert boxes and pop-up windows. In