- Using SOAP with J2EE
- Feb 6, 2004
- SOAP is the standard messaging protocol used by J2EE Web Services, and is the de facto standard for Web services in general. In this sample book chapter, from J2EE Web Services, you'll learn how to use SOAP in your applications.
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- Designing and Managing an XML Warehouse
- Jan 30, 2004
- In this chapter, the authors of "XML Data Management" present a global approach for designing and managing an XML data warehouse. Their focus is on filtering and adapting XML documents according to user requirements before storing them.
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- What Is RSS?
- Jan 23, 2004
- There has been a fair amount of discussion recently about RSS, a standard for distributing content without having to worry about whether that content will be filtered out of users' email boxes.
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- Using SQL Server's XML Support
- Jan 16, 2004
- SQL Server is an XML-enabled DBMS, which can read and write XML data, return data from databases in XML format, and read and update data stored in XML documents. In fact, SQL Server has eight different ways to use XML. Learn how each of them works, and how they interoperate.
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- Introduction to SOAP 1.1
- Jan 9, 2004
- Aaron Skonnard provides a thorough introduction to SOAP in this chapter from his book, "Essential XML Quick Reference."
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- The Grid: It's Not All Academic
- Dec 23, 2003
- In one form or another, grid computing has been around for quite a few years, but most business folks are pretty much unaware of its existence -- or its power.
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- SyncML Applications
- Dec 12, 2003
- SyncML can enable numerous applications that require data to be synchronized among various devices. This chapter takes a closer look at a few applications and explains how SyncML is beneficial for the different entities that use it.
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- XML Schema Patterns
- Dec 12, 2003
- Some programming languages, such as Perl, include a regular expression language, which defines a pattern against which a series of characters can be compared. Typically, this feature is used to search for fragments of a text document, but the XML Schema language has co-opted it for sophisticated validation of element content and attribute values. Neil Bradley explains.
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- Creating Well-Formed XML Documents
- Dec 5, 2003
- Making your XML well-formed is integral to creating XML documents. Steve Holzner covers all aspects of well-formedness, including constraints, namespaces, infosets, and canonical XML.
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- XML-Enabling a Legacy Application
- Dec 5, 2003
- Mike Rawlins summarizes an approach for and some major issues involved with building XML support into existing applications.
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- Mozilla Overlays: A New Way to Combine XML Documents
- Nov 26, 2003
- What do you do if XML information is split across several documents? The Mozilla platform has a neat solution to this problem. Documents written in Mozilla's XUL dialect of XML can be merged automatically into a single, final document using a system called overlays. Nigel McFarlane describes the overlay system in this article.
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- XQuery Language Expressions
- Nov 13, 2003
- When you combine XML with URLs, great things happen. These two factors together make the endpoints of a transaction transparent to the kind of technologies that are on the other ends. However, this transparency can break down in the presence of databases. XQuery was proposed as a solution to this conundrum. Kurt Cagle looks at the structure and language of XQuery.
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- Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 A Novel XML Forms Editor
- Nov 7, 2003
- Businesses that need to record, store, and send information in XML format have a perplexing problem. How can workers use XML without having to understand XML? There's a new solution: Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 simplifies the process of creating and using forms that use XML.
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- How Do Specific Web Services Technologies Work?
- Oct 31, 2003
- Joe Clabby takes a closer look at the specific technologies (XML, UDDI, WSDL, SOAP) that comprise Web services. How do they work? What specifically do they do? What additional standards efforts are underway to support the basic Web services protocols? He also reveals a big surprise Web services can be architected without using formal Web services standards.
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- Schema Extensibility and the any Element
- Oct 31, 2003
- Two of the most powerful and interesting aspects of XML Schema are the creation of extensible schemas and using XML Schema as a portable type system. Unfortunately, these two features are among the most difficult to understand and apply. This article provides some basic guidance on applying these features in your applications.
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- Arguing with Angle Brackets: A Step-by-Step Introduction to XML Schema
- Oct 17, 2003
- The primary building block for conveying meaningful information with XML is the W3C's XML Schema language. This article shows you step by step how to beat XML Schema into submission.
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- XML Case Study: Converting Excel Diaries to XML
- Oct 10, 2003
- Excel workbooks are extremely versatile at calculating and graphing workbook data. But workbooks don't make an ideal repository, given Excel's inherent size limitations and less-than-stellar access by other enterprise applications. This article explores the process using VBScript to convert Excel workbooks to a composite XML file.
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- Accessing and Manipulating XML Data
- Oct 3, 2003
- Learn how to access and manipulate XML data in preparation for your MCAD Exam 70-310.
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- Item 3: Stay with XML 1.0
- Sep 22, 2003
- In this excerpt from his book, "Effective XML," Elliotte Rusty Harold explains why XML 1.1 does several things, one of them marginally useful to a few developers, the rest actively harmful.
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- Influences on the Design of XQuery
- Sep 5, 2003
- Though XQuery is still a young language, it is important to look at the design choices of XQuery and find out the major influences on that design.
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