(James McCaffrey) The use of XML files in software testing has steadily increased over the past few years. Test case data, test harness configuration information, and test result data are now stored as XML. Recently I was writing some .NET test automation that saved test results to XML storage, and

(Bryan Porter) Applications are complicated. Even the simplest software invariably contains numerous settings that have to store some sort of value in order to function at even a basic level. Database-driven applications usually have the luxury of storing the lion’s share of their configuration info

(Dmitry Khudorozhkov) This article presents several XSLT stylesheets for visualizing numerical data rows contained, as you may have guessed, within XML files. The article explains the details of stylesheet setup and the template design rationale.

(Peter Heneback) Grammar-based validation languages, such as XML Schema and DTD, are well equipped to ensure that XML documents conform to a well-defined message structure. This ensures that incoming XML messages can be processed correctly by the receiving applications, but it does not ensure that t

(Jesse Smith) It has probably taken longer for XML to become a mainstream part of today’s applications than many developers first thought. XML is now becoming more widely used as wireless devices are becoming more secure and with better bandwidth. New technologies such as XQuery for SQL Server 2005

(Dmitry Khudorozhkov) The initial idea of this article was to bring you a simplistic example of using a Scripting Runtime Library, “click here and here, blah-blah-blah, thank you”. The reason why I began writing was the need to make my and my colleagues’ scripts file-system-aware. This ability prove

(Deepak Vohra) J2EE developers are commonly required to store an XML document in a relational database and retrieve an XML document from a database to obtain element and attribute values. Currently, only vendor-specific technologies and data types are available to store an XML document in a relation

(Darryl K. Taft) A panel of experts broke down many of the key issues surrounding AJAX—including security, tooling, support for devices and, not a small question, what will Microsoft do—at the AJAX Experience conference.

(Dave Hoover) In my Supertrain article, I showed how to use the HTML canvas element to draw dynamically changing server-side information using AJAX. In that example, the user was a passive recipient of information. In this article, I will demonstrate how to handle user input to allow your canvas app

(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.