(Marc Clifton) The XmlTextReader class is not the most intuitive class to work with, as the methods and properties are very low level. While the XmlTextReader class is rich in properties and methods, I’ve found that most of what it provides isn’t necessary for the average day-to-day job. So, in th

(Steve Holzner) Previously you saw that you can use CSS to format XML documents in the major browsers (Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator). However, there’s a native XML way to format XML documents for display—using Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), which is what this arti

(Deepak Raghavan) Web applications work on the underlying Http protocol and Http is stateless by nature. It uses the Request – Response pattern between the client and the server, to process the logic at the server and present the information in HTML to the client browser. In the case of long running

(François Bry, Christoph Koch, Tim Furche, Sebastian Schaffert, Liviu Badea and Sacha Berger) A decade of experience with research proposals as well as standardized query languages for the conventional Web and the recent emergence of query languages for the Semantic Web call for a reconsideration o

(Alex Brown) As XML becomes a pervasive technology for data storage and processing, many adopters of the technology face a practical problem caused by the perceived slow performance of many XML processing operations, particularly in comparison to tried and trusted RDBMS-based solutions that are bein

(Ajay Vohra and Deepak Vohra) An XML document contains structured textual information. We covered the syntactic rules that define the structure of a well-formed XML document in the primer on XML 1.0 in Chapter 1. This chapter is about parsing the structure of a document to extract the content inform

(Edmond Woychowsky) Arthur C. Clarke’s third law goes like this, “any significantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” which an interesting opinion to say the least. This statement does a lot to explain the interesting array of technologies available to us, but it doesn’t explain

(Wei-Meng Lee) In my last article on Atlas, I gave you an introduction to the Atlas framework and showed you how to use the UpdatePanel control to update portions of pages without a server refresh. In this article, I’ll drive your Atlas abilities even further by showing you how to use the AutoComple

(Hideki Hiura) One of the key goals for many companies in using XML has been to enable the processing of a wide variety of unstructured data that cannot be effectively stored in a conventional relational database (RDB). This goal is an important one, since most of the data in an enterprise is not st

(Bcoelho) In this post, I will analyse the ways that you can add nodes to a XmlDocument and wich way is the fastest, using the .NET framework 1.1.