(Sreekumar Parameswaran Pillai) XML technology is in its high tide and companies are enthusiastic to leverage its power and flexibility. Presentation tier technology based on XML is also gaining momentum in this wave. Database vendors have been providing implicit support for XML in their DB products

(Tyler Anderson) Partially completing an online form, only having to leave before you’ve finished, can be frustrating. XForms can fix this problem. There’s a quick and easy way to save the instance data of an XForm so that you can reuse it later.

(MuthuKumar Arjunan) This article explains how a SpreadsheetML document (.xlsx file) can be converted into a generic xml data source file that can be used by heterogeneous systems. It then binds this generic xml data source to an ASP.NET data grid to display the data in a browser.

(James Snell) During the past few of years, Web content syndication technology has grown in importance both on the Internet and behind the firewall. In July of 2005, the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF) Atom Publishing Format and Protocol Working Group (known simply as “atompub”) published t

(Xavier Baril and Zohra Bellahsène) Data present on the Web is unstructured, or has incomplete, irregular, or frequently changed structure. XML is becoming the universal data exchange model on the Web. It has been shown that XML is well suited for representing semi-structured data. Compared to HTML,

(Daniel Rubio) While Web services continue to be deployed on many corporate applications, a lot of thought continues to go into design issues ranging from reusability to security. Yet what is almost an afterthought is the actual payload structured as XML. After all, it’s XML which provides Web servi

(David Marston and Joanne Tong) XSLT 2.0 introduces numerous new features, and some are specifically designed to address XSLT 1.0 shortcomings. Explore some of the most highly desirable features: grouping, Implicit Document Nodes, user-defined functions, date-time manipulation, Schema-awareness, and

(Mario Blaževiæ) Streaming, in the context of this paper, means processing data as it is being delivered. There are two reasons why streaming is important for markup processing. One is that streaming applications do not need to load their whole input into main memory at once, and hence achieve bette

(Ed Tittel) RDF stands for Resource Description Framework and defines an XML-based standard used to describe resources on the Web. In all the important ways, the ultimate clearinghouse for RDF information is located on Dave Beckett’s Web site (Planet RDF), where his Resource Guide provides as comple

(Brett McLaughlin) You really can’t do any significant programming today without running across XML. Whether you’re a Web page designer considering the move to XHTML, a Web programmer working with JavaScript, a server-side programmer using deployment descriptors and data binding, or a back-end devel