(Riaan Hanekom) With the advent of XML, XSLT has received widespread recognition and use for presenting a human readable view of XML. I’m not going to go in depth into XSL(T) and XML – you can find a LOT of resources by googling.
Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML
RSS and AJAX: A Simple News Reader
(Paul Sobocinski) Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) are two technologies that have taken the Web by storm. Most commonly, RSS is used to provide news to either people or other organizations. This is done by serving an “RSS feed” from a website. An RSS feed is
Hit the ground running with AIDE, Part 3: Touchpoint and managed resource integration
(Stephen B. Morris) This tutorial, the third in a series on the IBM Autonomic Integrated Development Environment (AIDE), describes a basic touchpoint interface for a managed resource. Discover how Eclipse supports the workflows for such development with TODO items and learn how to provide a touchpoi
Ajax in action
Ajax stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML. Although strictly speaking Ajax itself is not a technology, it mixes well-known programming techniques in an uncommon way to enable web developers to build Internet applications with much more appealing user interfaces than those to which we have beco
Read the First Line of a Text File
(Anghel Leonard) This code shows you how to use the instance methods from the FileReader and BufferedReader classes with a Xalan 2 processor to read the first line from a text file.
Dynamic Forms (Sample Chapter)
(Arnold Doray) Every time you need a new form for user input, you usually have to write a new ActionForm subclass. This can get tedious quickly, especially if your form has many getter and setter functions. (R, pdf)
Introduction to XForms, Part 1: The new Web standard for forms
(Chris Herborth) XForms is the next generation of Web-based data processing. It replaces traditional HTML forms with an XML data model and presentation elements. In this three-part series, you’ll be introduced to XForms and its capabilities, including the basic XForms model and form, the various typ
Using the XmlTextReader Class Video
The XmlTextReader class provides a fast, forward-only API for parsing XML documents. In this video tutorial you will see how to use the XmlTextReader to parse RSS feeds, combine it with the XmlTextWriter class and how it can be used to generate different XML formats such as Scalable Vector Graphics
Make Your Site’s RSS Feed Shine
RSS is a way of life these days, but there’s no reason your site’s RSS feed needs to look like it was written by a computer. Sure, in order for an RSS feed to be read by most RSS readers it needs to be valid XML, but who says you have to stop there?
Standards and specs: XML: Half a standard is better than none
(Peter Seebach) The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) standard specifies a data format, but carefully leaves the question of what data is to be stored completely open. The storage format is immensely flexible, allowing for the representation of arbitrarily complex datatypes.
