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July 2008

E4X: JavaScript on Steroids

The main obstacle for JavaScript developers working with XML has been the inability to interact with the data in an easy and efficient manner. Now with the E4X this interaction is easy. Learn to use JavaScript for XML (E4X) and discover the capabilities of the E4X enhancement, designed to facilitate simple and easy parsing, calculating, editing, and related activities on XML data.

June 2008

Use XPath to Select Portions of XML Documents

XML is a data format concerned primarily with compatibility and flexibility. This tutorial will teach you the fundamentals of XPath. Part 1 of this tutorial details the XPath specification, which allows you to specify particular sections of an XML document using a directory-like syntax. You'll learn the syntax of XPath, and you'll work with tools that let you experiment with XPath.

May 2008

Internationalize Your Apps with XSLT

Today’s web-based reporting applications usually use XSL transformation to format data. To meet the needs of users worldwide Web application often require internationalization. Follow this step-by-step approach to managing client-side internationalization based on XSLT. This solution only requires that both the data to be internationalized and the server stores are in XML

April 2008

Serialize Java Objects in XML with XStream

XStream is a lightweight and easy-to-use open source Java library for serializing Java objects to XML and back again. Learn how to set up XStream, and discover how to use it to serialize and deserialize objects as well as to read configuration properties from an XML configuration file.

How XQuery extends XPath

In this article, you'll find descriptions of XPath and XQuery, and learn how XQuery extends XPath. Although both XPath and XQuery perform some of the same functions, XPath provides simplicity and XQuery provides additional power and flexibility. Both languages allow you to select bits of data from an XML document or an XML document store.

March 2008

Plan a Semantic Web Site

The Semantic Web allows users to get smarter search results and site owners to get more targeted traffic as users find what they really want. Learn how to make your Web site part of the Semantic Web, as this article leads you through the aspects of both information architecture and general infrastructure you need to truly take advantage of this burgeoning opportunity.

February 2008

Design an Ajax Super Page with Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking Web site that allows users to create and share browser-independent bookmarks. Surf the Web and have your del.icio.us tags, links, and functions handy, or a single page where you can save the site you're browsing directly into your account. This tutorial shows you how to use Ajax to build such a page using a PHP script as the server-side proxy.

OOXML: What’s the Big Deal?

The OOXML specification has been both criticized and defended by a number of people, leading many to wonder what the big deal is. This article illustrates the basis of technical, rather than political, objections to treating OOXML as a standard.

RESTful SOA using XML

SOA usually implies heavyweight technology for large enterprises, but the advantages of the SOA architectural pattern also apply to smaller environments. This article describes how to follow SOA principles using lightweight principles like REST, rather than all the overhead that is used in larger environments.

Shred XML Documents with DB2 on Linux

Learn to “shred" XML documents into relational tables through annotated XML schema decomposition or XMLTABLE Decomposition. This article reviews the two methods of decomposing XML data including, how to use the XMLTABLE function for decomposition.

January 2008

Create Input Forms with Ajax and XML

Augmenting your HTML forms with Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) callbacks to the server is a practical way to add Web 2.0 functionality to your application. Discover a variety of techniques to add Ajax code and enhance the user experience for PHP applications.

Discover the Orangevolt Eclipse XSLT Plug-in

This article is intended to show you how easy it is to use Eclipse regardless of whether or not you are an experienced XSLT programmer. Learn what XSLT can do for you and how easy it is to employ XSLT with the Orangevolt XSLT plug-in, including installing and using most of its functions.

December 2007

Push RSS to New Limits

This tutorial demonstrates using Really Simple Syndication (RSS) channels to store contact information and meeting information—much as a personal address book and calendar does. It uses RSS elements and attributes such as items and guides to create a neural-network-like mesh of related data.

Parse RDDL Documents with PHP

When working with XML you really need a way to describe a namespace using multiple resources. The Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL) allows you to do exactly this! Parse RDDL descriptors with an API in the XML_RDDL package from PEAR, and extract resource information for use in any PHP application.

An Easy Way to Convert Java to XML

In the last article of this series, you downloaded, installed, and set up Castor. In this article, you'll learn how to convert your Java classes to XML and transform that XML back into Java code, as well as how Castor works and how to design your classes to function well with the API.

November 2007

Digitally Sign and Verify XML Documents

With the increasing adoption of Web services and SOAs, ensuring the authenticity, integrity, and nonrepudiability of XML messages has become an essential component of secure and robust messaging infrastructures. This article walks you through how to enable the signing and verification of XML documents using Apache WSS4J and WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances together.

October 2007

Create REST Services with Java and Atom

In this tutorial learn the basics behind Representation State Transfer (REST) and the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), and how they apply to services. Also learn to implement REST/APP-based services with Java technology, and enable access and modification of resource data for podcasts, blog entries, image storage, calendar entries, and so on.

Integrate XForm with the Google Web Toolkit

This four-part series demonstrates how to use the GWT and XForms together to create a dynamic Web application. In this final installment learn to add an interactive form for adding new albums for an artist using GWT Ajax, JSNI, and XForms controls. You'll look at how GWT can augment XForms, and provide localized content for XForms controls.

Build an XUL-based Blog Editor

The Firefox browser is built using XUL, and the upcoming Firefox 3.0 release will provide a XUL runtime allowing any Firefox user to run any XUL application. In this tutorial, you'll start to program in XUL. You'll see how to leverage your Web development skills to build a XUL-based blog editor.

September 2007

Design and Develop JAX-WS 2.0 Web Services

Simplify the construction and deployment of Web services and Web service clients in Java, and speed up Web services development with Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS). This tutorial walks you through how to develop Web services for your application using JAX-WS technology by developing a sample order-processing application.

Develop Powerful XML Applications with DB2

XMLTABLE is one of the most powerful functions in the SQL/XML standard and is available in DB2 9 for Linux, Unix, Windows, and z/OS. Part 2 of this two-part series describes common XMLTABLE usage scenarios such as shredding XML into relational tables, and producing hybrid XML-relational storage of your XML documents.

The CSS @media Rule to the Rescue

The CSS @media rule is a useful way to target an HTML or XML document to an intended output device. Use of the print media is now fairly widespread, and provides a much cleaner means of creating printer-friendly pages than does a separate "printable version." In regard to positioning the screen media type has an important meaning that is not covered by media-free stylesheet rules.

Voice Enable Twitter

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Blogging is another topic more people seem to do these days to increase their visibility and voice. In this article, learn to use VoiceXML to actually interact with your blog or tweet using your own voice. Specifically develop a simple blogging application that takes VoiceXML as input and saves the data into your online blog.

Use PHP to Create XForms Part 1

This two-part article series is designed to get PHP developers up to speed in leveraging Web 2.0 XForms forms for their PHP forms development. In Part 1, developers will create the XForms library using PHP, allowing each function to take in parameters and output XForm elements.

August 2007

Generate XForms Applications using NIEM

This article demonstrates how XForms applications can be automatically created from a National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) constraint schema, and shows how graphical tools can allow non-programmers to automatically create rich Web applications using a model-driven approach. It gives an example of how a short XML transformation (XSLT) is used to achieve this task and how the transformation can be modified and extended by developers.

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