(Shari L. Gould) Your company uses IBM’s WebSphere suite of products. You’re familiar with Eclipse. Your company is an Avaya customer using Avaya Interactive Response (IR) or Avaya’s Voice Portal platforms. Here’s some breaking news out of Avaya: You can use your existing WebSphere Application Serve

(Benoit Marchal) For all its popularity, the RSS standard is surprisingly simple and, one can even write, limited. RSS does not pretend to do many things, but it is designed to be extended through RSS modules. This article introduces three popular RSS extensions and explains how to design your own e

(Ian D.M. Hakes) Explore PHP and XML development using the Eclipse IDE, DB2 Express-C 9, and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition. Learn how to install and configure these applications, part of a program designed to kick-start your application development, to develop a Web-based movie info

(Keyvan Nayyeri) XSD Schema, DTD and Relax NG are three common ways to validate a XML file structure. The first approach, XSD Schema, has been supported by Microsoft .NET Framework and is the best approach for .NET developers. Schema files are a special kind of XML file that define the structure o

(Dragos Dumitru) With WPF, Microsoft introduced a new XML based descriptive language for use when designing interfaces called XAML. To help you use the new language, the company built in the VS forms desgigner support for XAML. Also, the Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer can be used to creat

(Jeff Kusnitz) VoiceXML 2.1 was never intended to be a replacement for VoiceXML 2.0. The intent was that it include a small number of features that were not included in VoiceXML 2.0, but were deemed significant enough to warrant documenting and standardizing. VoiceXML 2.1 has met these goals — it c

(Chris Mitchell) The semantic web has had some great claims made about it. With the recent advent of some c# class libraries that work with its various layers it becomes easy to explore this ‘greatness’ practically and make up your own mind. One good application, is to illustrate the effect the sema

(Jeremy McPeak) The most widely used function of the Web is searching. It’s not even an option; if you want to find any information, the search engines of the Web are the places you have to go to.

(Deepak Vohra) Today’s applications often use XML technology to represent and transfer structured data. You can display the data in an XML document as HTML by applying an XSLT stylesheet transformation to the XML data. In a Java application, you perform the XML-to-HTML transformation by writing code

(Elliotte Rusty Harold) Validation is a powerful tool. It enables you to quickly check that input is roughly in the form you expect and quickly reject any document that is too far away from what your process can handle. If there’s a problem with the data, it’s better to find out earlier than later.