(Mike Gold) Part of our deployment process at work is to not only build the .NET applications, but to go through a bunch of XML configuration files and change the tags contained within them manually. That drudge work is starting to get old, so I figured, why not automate the process. The first th

(Aaron Skonnard) It’s been a while since I’ve written on a core XML topic, and I miss it. Now that the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 has shipped and is in the hands of countless developers worldwide, it seems like a good time to discuss the improvements found in System.Xml, which sits at the heart of

(William Brogden) Over the years since SOAP first entered the awareness of Java programmers, roughly since 1998, a number of toolkits for SOAP servers and clients have been created. Although considerable stability in the SOAP specification has been achieved, the continuous parallel developments in g

(Frank Coyle) In part 1 of step 5, we explored how to obtain XML data from Amazon’s web service and turn that information around, to create a ZwiftBooks price-and-time web service. Now let’s look at how to use Web Services Description Language (WSDL) to describe that web service, so that any client

(Jim Pretin) Remember the good old days, when the internet consisted of nothing more than a few simple websites formatted in basic HTML? Web design was so easy.

(Dave Horlick) Swing is a Java framework for building cross-platform graphical user interfaces. Many areas of the framework have recently enjoyed some compelling improvements. The portion that renders HTML hasn’t been so lucky. When Swing debuted, HTML was at a youthful version 3.2, and practices su

(Greg Shultz) Windows Vista has so many compelling technologies, that I never really paid all that much attention to its PDF-like creation technology, called XML Paper Specification (XPS, for short). I’ve noticed it as a Printer option in all of the Print dialog boxes in Windows Vista.

(Ralf Lämmel) Let me recall my simple definition of typed XML programming that I offered previously: “Typed XML programming is XML programming in mainstream OO languages like C#, Java and VB while leveraging XML schemas as part of the XML programming model”. With an eye on what people are doing with

(Uche Ogbuji) In this third article of the XML in Firefox 1.5 series, you learn to manipulate XML with the JavaScript implementation in Mozilla Firefox. In the first two articles, XML in Firefox 1.5, Part 1: Overview of XML features and XML in Firefox 1.5, Part 2: Basic XML processing, you learned a

(Ivan Pepelnjak) Many well-designed web sites contain significant amounts of navigational information together with the actual content. The HTML markup used for navigation can impact your search engine ranking as well as increase the page download time experienced by your visitors. In this article,