(W. Eliot Kimber) The rant of the day is not really a rant as a conundrum: what’s the best way to enable recognition of standard XML types that are intended to contain arbitrary stuff from non-standard namespaces such that the schemas governing the non-standard stuff can constrain the rules for what

(C. C. Kanne and G. Moerkotte) Loading large amounts of data which is already available in an external format is called a bulkload operation. In conventional database management systems (DBMSes), bulkloads are often used to initialize a database, for example, when introducing an application to DBMS

(Doug Tillman) You’d have to be developing web pages on another planet not to have heard the buzz about AJAX (asynchronous Java and XML). Judiciously employed, AJAX calls can enhance the usability of a site and add functionality to create eye-catching browser client applications. This article will s

(Holger Seubert and Sabine Perathoner-Tschaffler) With the support of natively storing XML documents, IBM DB2 9 takes an evolutionary step towards a hybrid database system. XQuery, a new primary language in DB2, allows for optimally working with XML. However, XML also often contains large portions o

(Peter V. Mikhalenko) In the recent articles about CCXML and SCXML we talked about voice applications and their logic, and referred often to VoiceXML language. It is still the backbone in voice applications and dialog systems; and in this article I’d like to talk about it and its future. VoiceXML 2.

(Karthik R N) In this article, you will see how to transform an XML document using an XSLT stylesheet, how to supply parameters to an XSLT stylesheet using the XsltArgumentList class, how to invoke methods of an extension object from an XSLT stylesheet, and more.

(David A. Utter) The number three has importance not only in the world of Middle Earth, but among the bustling developments taking place in the world of XML. A pair of firms has updated their XML developer products to version 3 this month.

(Jason Levitt) It’s still no fun to work around the cross-domain security restriction that web browsers impose on the XMLHttpRequest object (and IE’s XMLHTTP ActiveX object), but with the advent of more interesting REST web services, Ajax developers are looking for ways to make web services requests

(Jennifer Kyrnin) Sometimes it’s easier to understand how to write well-formed XML by seeing an example. The Web Writer newsletter is written using a form of XML – I call it AML or About Markup Language (go figure!). Here is a sample “AML” file. While this is a working document, it is not actually a

(Daniel Rubio) Web services are a boon when it comes to achieving a loosely coupled architecture since they are not locked down to a specific platform provider or consumer. In principle, this design is optimal for many enterprise settings, but also comes with its shortcomings. Up next we will addres