(Michael K. Campbell) A while back I got tired of looking for a simple solution to performing ‘on the fly’ XSL Transformations. I didn’t want some memory-hog tool to completely isolate me from the details of the transform through layers of abstraction—just a light-weight tool that would act as a sim

(Yasser Shohoud) As you develop distributed Web applications, you will need a way to represent your structured data and send it from one tier to the other possibly over the Web. XML is an excellent choice for representing structured data. For example, you’ll find yourself sending XML data between th

(Peter V. Mikhalenko) In the last article about SCXML we talked about state machine notations and noted that many concepts were taken from Call Control XML (CCXML) language. The first draft of CCXML specification appeared in the early 2002, and still remains in a working draft status. However, lack

(Tony Patton) Web developers’ common complaint with browser-based applications is its stateless nature. That is, once data is requested and delivered from a server, the connection is lost; any subsequent data requests require a new connection. While there are various ways to cache data on the client

(Jeff Hanson) Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an enabling technology. By itself, RFID doesn’t provide much value, but it does enable companies to develop applications that create value.

(Michael Libby) Microsoft Office Visio 2003 provides a feature that allows you to save diagrams to web pages. This article builds upon this ability by introducing a way to dynamically manipulate a diagram when a web page is requested. The following step by step instructions show how this can be don

(George Feinberg) The design and implementation trade-offs within a native XML database make a significant impact on the performance, scalability and features available to applications that use it. This article focuses on the granularity of stored XML documents and indexing as two of the most critic

(Dan Radu) When I started working in database programming and complex business implementations, the need for a data access framework was definitive. I started to build my own classes that accessed data objects. Of course, starting from 0, the effort was bigger and I thought that a “general” data acc

(Chris Eaton) Let’s start looking into DB2 Viper with a look at XML storage. What’s the big deal with XML? Well I would bet that almost all of your companies are doing something with XML. There are many uses for XML. The one many people think of is XML document management where your documents, like

(Scott Manning) You have a long list that you want to put in an XML format. This tutorial will show you a quick way to do it with Microsoft Excel.