- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 6: Employ the Semantic Web
- Aug 18, 2006
- In terms of modern technology, the Web is actually a venerated oldster. Is it time for the younger set to take over, bringing newer and more powerful ideas? In the sixth step toward XML mastery, Frank Coyle discusses the facets of the semantic web, which just may be the Web of the future.
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- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 5: Making Web Services Work for You (Part 2 of 2)
- Jul 28, 2006
- After you build your web service, you want clients to be able to connect to it and use it. In this step, Frank Coyle takes us on a tour of how the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) lets you describe a web service, so that any client computer can connect to and use the service. Don’t want to wrestle with WSDL syntax? No problem. Plenty of open source tools exist to create your WSDL automatically from simple interface descriptions.
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- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 4: Parsing and Processing XML (Part 2 of 2)
- Jul 7, 2006
- In the second part of step 4 toward XML mastery, Frank Coyle moves us a bit deeper into the XML parsing world, with a look at how SAX filters can be used to compose parsing components into more complex applications. He then takes a look at a hot new successor to SAX called StAX, which lets applications “pull” information from an XML document as needed. StAX is generating a lot of interest in both the server and handheld device worlds, where applications need to stay in control in order to manage their resources.
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- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 5: Making Web Services Work for You (Part 1 of 2)
- Jun 16, 2006
- You could spend oodles of money assembling a database of info that's available in bits and pieces here and there on the Net. But why bother, when your server might be able to grab all that data for you with the help of a simple web service? In step 5, Frank Coyle gives us a tantalizing glimpse of the possibilities of rolling your own web service around an existing web service.
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- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 4: Parsing and Processing XML (Part 1 of 2)
- Jun 9, 2006
- In this fourth step to XML mastery, Frank Coyle starts us into the world of parsing technology with a look at the major parsing models: DOM, SAX, and StAX (a newcomer on the block). With some parsing technology under your belt, you can programmatically extract, modify, and even create XML - and it's actually much less complicated than it sounds.
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- Which Hosted Wiki Is Right for You?
- Jun 9, 2006
- Are you wiki wonky? Scott Nesbitt covers three popular hosted wiki services that are free or relatively cheap to use and provide easy tools to set up your wiki within minutes.
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- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 3: Exploring the Power of XSLT (Part 2 of 2)
- Jun 2, 2006
- Manual XSLT transforms are great, but Frank Coyle wants to push us a little harder. In this article, he shows how we can generate HTML dynamically from our XML, by using a Java servlet whenever someone visits our web site. As you’ll see, XSLT resembles a rule-based expert system that can transform XML into virtually any other data representation.
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- Podcast: Matthew David Interviews Microsoft’s Aric Cohen on Windows Presentation Foundation
- May 26, 2006
- In this podcast Matthew David chats with Aric Cohen from Microsoft. Aric is leading the development team building the new Windows Presentation Foundation, or WPF. WPF is the new way to display images in WinFX, which is core to Windows Vista and can be added to Windows XP.
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- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 3: Transform with XSLT (Part 1 of 2)
- May 26, 2006
- Frank Coyle is ready to take us one step closer to XML mastery in this article on how to leverage the power of XSLT, XPath, and namespaces to generate HTML code dynamically from the customer's XML data.
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- Cocoa: Working with XML
- May 19, 2006
- Objective-C and Cocoa is the predominate language/framework on the Apple OS X operating system, but it is fairly uncommon otherwise. One way to enable an application written in this language to communicate with applications written for other platforms is via the universal XML. Marcus Zarra walks you through constructing, transmitting, and deconstructing an XML document using Objective-C and Cocoa.
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- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 2: Display for the Web
- May 19, 2006
- Now that you've conquered step 1, reading XML code, it's time to learn how to prep that XML code for publishing on the Web. In step 2 of his series, Frank Coyle gives the lowdown on how to structure web pages with some key XHTML elements and attributes to take advantage of the power of Cascading Style Sheets and to get things ready for upcoming work with XSLT.
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- Using XQuery to Manage XML with SQL Server 2005
- May 12, 2006
- Jesse Smith gives you a crash course on XQuery methods and how you can use them in certain situations to retrieve and update XML data stored in your SQL Server 2005 database.
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- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 1: Read Before You Write
- Apr 28, 2006
- Frank Coyle takes us on the first step to mastering XML: learning how to read XML code. In this article, he discusses the power and use of RSS, SVG, DTDs, and a host of other web-related abbreviations that you've probably seen thrown around but never quite understood.
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- Seven Steps to XML Mastery: About This Series
- Apr 28, 2006
- Frank Coyle leads you to a complete understanding of exactly what you need to know to build and implement your own sophisticated XML solutions, whether for your personal web site or an enterprise-level organization. This introduction to the series briefly describes the relationships among the various technologies you’ll learn as you travel the seven steps to XML mastery.
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- The Bad Code Spotter's Guide
- Apr 14, 2006
- Old maps were marked with the phrase "Here be Dragons" to help seafarers steer away from dangerous places; in programming the best way to avoid dealing with bad code is to avoid writing it. Diomidis Spinellis points out 10 giveaways to spot bad code that you (or others) may have written.
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- How to Use the XPathAPI in Flash
- Apr 7, 2006
- Flash 8 has delivered the ability to do simple searches for node names and attribute values in an XML file with its new XPathAPI class. Kris Hadlock shows how to use the XPathAPI in Flash 8 to simplify and give power to your XML parsing.
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- Custom SharePoint 2003 Templates
- Mar 10, 2006
- Custom templates enable a user to define a default layout, functionality, and default content for a newly created site. A parallel can be drawn between a Microsoft Word stationery template and a SharePoint template. This chapter will help you get started with Microsoft SharePoint 2003 custom templates.
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- Preventing State-Based Attacks of Web Applications
- Feb 24, 2006
- The concept of state, or the ability to remember information as a user travels from page to page within a site, is an important one for Web testers. Developers of Web applications must take it upon themselves to code state information so they can enforce rules about page access and session management. This chapter contains a series of attacks that will help determine if your Web application does this important task correctly and securely.
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- Tower of eBabel: Why e-Books Are Such a Mess and How They Can Improve
- Feb 17, 2006
- The digital publications industry is in chaos, with competing e-book formats resulting in a lack of content that plagues the industry. Mark Carey explains how this impasse came about and suggests what can be done to fix the problem.
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- The Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Standard
- Feb 3, 2006
- Is WSDM just another management standard? Or a significant step in the direction of producing manageable web-based systems, software, and networks? Software consultant Stephen Morris looks at the various aspects of the argument.
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