(Alex Homer) While there have been many improvements and new features added to ADO.NET, the changes going on in the XML-related classes in version 2.0 have been even more dramatic. Through the XML InfoSet model defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), XML is evolving to become a universal dat

(William Brogden) XQuery is intended to be a language for stating queries into XML data sources that is concise, powerful and easy to use. Supporters draw a parallel between SQL for relational databases and XQuery for XML. Defining the XQuery language standard is still at the W3C Candidate Recommend

(Craig Caulfield) HTML forms are one of the best-known techniques for gathering data from a user and submitting that data to a server. However, HTML forms are only simple tools and don’t natively support some of the features needed by current Web applications such as sophisticated data validation. A

(Penny Crosman) If you want to find out what Brad and Angelina are up to, Google is a great search tool. Type in the celebrity names and poof, you get a list of the latest stories about the Brangelina baby-to-be. But if you need a technical or business-oriented search, Internet-style search technolo

(Jesse Smith) I’ve been working with Web services lately. After writing a bunch of code, I found a way to trick the .NET compiler into treating an XML stream as HTML. Doing so makes managing XML data a lot easier, as you can feed data returned from the web service right into your .Net script without

(Pietros Ghebremicael) Web Services Enhancement version 3.0 (WSE 3.0) is a SOAP extension managed API (Microsoft.Web.Services3.dll) compatible with the .Net Framework 2.0; it ships with a design time tool (WSE Settings 3.0) that fully integrates with Visual Studio 2005. WSE 3.0 simplifies the creati

(Anghel Leonard) This tip is a simple application that demonstrates the possibilities of your StAX parser by setting the XMLInputFactory properties to true/false. The StAX parser tested in this example is the BEA and JCP parser.

(Ed Tittel) As I write this tip, I’m nearing the midpoint of a two-week stint at the TechTarget Expert Answer Center, where I’m blogging daily and answering member questions about—you guessed it—XML topics, tools, and technologies. This tip is an expanded version of a blog I wrote on February 15, 20

XML Schema: Datatypes is part 2 of the specification of the XML Schema language. It defines facilities for defining datatypes to be used in XML Schemas as well as other XML specifications. The datatype language, which is itself represented in XML, provides a superset of the capabilities found in XML

(Dare Obasanjo) I am a big fan of movies, especially summer blockbusters. Last summer I saw Fantastic Four, War of the Worlds, Batman Begins and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Every Friday I visit sites like MSN Movies and IMDB to learn what new movies are available in my neighborhood and in what theaters they