(Frank Rice) Learn about the scenarios and XML markup that you can use to customize the Ribbon user interface (UI) in the 2007 Microsoft Office release. The Ribbon UI replaces menus, toolbars, and most of the task pane UI in the 2007 release.

(Ajith Kumar Radhakrishnan) This is an application scheduler that is implemented as a Windows Service, similar to the Windows Task Scheduler – but simple, as it has fewer configuration options and it uses XML to store and retrieve data.

(Jennifer Kyrnin) What’s the point of learning XML when you already know HTML? Well, the reality is that there are many applications that, while they can be done with HTML, DHTML, Java, ASP, or CGI, work much more easily as an XML application. For example: –connecting databases and the Web —

(Kevin Williams) In the first article in this series, we took a look at the element vs. attribute question for data points and concluded that, for data documents, it makes more sense to model the information as attributes when possible. In this, the second part of our four-part series, we take a loo

(William Brogden) JavaServer Pages, or JSP, are an extension of Java servlet technology designed to facilitate dynamic creation of HTML pages by Web developers without writing Java code. When a JSP-capable server gets a request for a JSP page, it initiates a series of events that result in a Java se

(Keith Pijanowski) Mapping classes to schemas and serializing objects to XML documents leads to interoperability. Consider the relationship that exists among classes, schemas, objects, and XML documents (as illustrated in Figure 1). Classes are constructs that describe a software system’s data in a

(Stephen Swoyer) There are a few things you need to know about Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, one of the most talked about trends in Web app dev. First, AJAX isn’t strictly a technology but just one way to solve a fairly common set of problems. Second, codejockeys are divided over AJAX. It’s not t

(Kevin Williams) This article is the first in a series that looks at the steps involved in modeling relational data in XML. We look at the three major components of a relational database—tables, columns, and the key relationships among them—and see how to best model each in XML.

(Kumar Raj Moorthy) Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is a XML-based language used to define enterprise business processes within Web services. Every company has its unique way of defining its business process flow. The key objective of BPEL is to standardize the format of business process

(Frank Coyle) In the previous articles along our path to XML mastery, we looked at some XML basics and explored how to separate content from display. At ZwiftBooks, where you’ve been hired to prepare the way for dynamic web content generation, your strategy revolved around using a limited subset of