Such of the innovation in programming in recent years has involved loose coupling. The invention of database driver methodologies such as JDBC and ODBC led to applications being loosely coupled
eb services are all about two things: XML and WSDL. When you build a Web service in a commercial platform such as Microsoft .NET or J2EE, you are building a
SS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds are an easy way for organizations to distribute content. At the most basic level, an RSS feed, or channel, is an XML document containing a
t is sometimes challenging to create and organize XML documents. This is even more true if the document content needs to be presented in several different languages. It creates unwanted
XML is not all it could be. Despite all its promise for free data exchange among disparate applications, Web application developers still contend with XML’s shortcomings: it’s too verbose, it’s
he XML Data Source Object (DSO) is a Microsoft ActiveX control that’s been built into Microsoft Internet Explorer since version 4. This object allows you to extract content from an
hat’s the latest sleeper technology that promises to make your life easier? It’s XQuery (short for XML Query) and it’s the ‘Ginsu knife’ of XML standards. XML can represent almost
on’t you sometimes wish that accessing database data were easier, and you didn’t have to deal with such things as OLE DB, ODBC, and JDBC?that you could use just one
n this article, I’ll show you how to build an XML-based, client-side JavaScript app that reads data from external XML files, traverses the XML data, and displays that data in