(Brett McLaughlin) Programmers looking for a solution to clunky web interfaces and long wait times during page reloads will appreciate this sample chapter from Head Rush Ajax, which explains the functional advantages of Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) over traditional web programming. (R, pd

(Jennifer Kyrnin) Everyone seems to be talking about XML these days, if it’s not Ajax, it’s some other tool that uses XML as the back-end, but what are people actually using XML for? It’s one thing to learn how to use XML, but what for?

(Alejandro Gervasio) Are you looking forward to learning about loading XML data strings, as well as searching and accessing nodes? Then this is the tutorial you’ve been waiting for since last week! Welcome to the second part of the series “Working with simpleXML in PHP 5.” This three-part series int

(Andrey Butov) Few would argue with the statement that XML had an immense impact on the development community, influencing almost every area of computer science, from XML-based game files to financial data exchanged between various distributed Wall Street trading systems.

(Dazzar) When browsing the web using your mobile phone, it will generally be receiving web content in a format called WML (Wireless Markup Language). This is a derivative of XML, specific to wireless devices. It displays content in a manner suitable for the small screen, on a mobile phone. When thes

(Christopher Krause) Forms are an essential part of many business or administration processes: Tax declarations, travel expense reports or an annual budget request. They offer a simple means of structuring data entered by an end user.

(Mike Faust) While some people may wish otherwise, your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can’t do it all. For those tasks that are outside of the scope of your ERP package, you need a good means for interfacing and integrating those systems with your ERP. Integrating applications with y

(Bob DuCharme) The W3C’s XQuery language is now a Candidate Recommendation, and more and more implementations are appearing. In an XML.com introduction to the language (part 1, part 2), I wrote that “while the Saxon implementation may not scale up as much as the disk-based versions that use persiste

(Kunal Mittal) The XMLBeans technology lets you work with an XML structure just as you’d work with a JavaBean. Using a tool like XMLBeans simplifies SOA development by reducing the development and testing time required for your services, thus increasing the agility of your service delivery.

(Doug Henschen) To solve complex problems, sometimes it does take a rocket scientist. Sometimes, in fact, it takes a whole bunch of them.