XML Schema Best Practices In the June issue of
XML-Journal I mentioned
that we need a set of
best practices that rein
in the complexities of
XML Schema. The set
offered at www.xfront.com
is a great start, but
they cater to the XML
Schema extremists, and
... Sep. 6, 2002 Reads: 9,573 |
Battle of the Bulging
Standards The many people and
organizations who came to
the XML industry from
the database and software
development industries
have always wanted
better standards for
modeling the native data
structures they
interchange in XML. Some
supp... Sep. 6, 2002 Reads: 9,726 |
Walking on Bones Consider that when the
pharaohs were buried with
the wealth of Egypt,
tomb raiders did the
economy a favor by
liberating that wealth
and putting it back into
circulation. But at the
end of the day they were
grave robbers who wal... Sep. 6, 2002 Reads: 9,409 Replies: 1 |
XML Excellence at Ford
Motor Company What would our companies
be like if we didn't have
to pay an extra premium
to integrate our
applications? Integrating
a software package can
cost as much as two
dollars for every dollar
spent acquiring it.
People pay additionally
... Sep. 6, 2002 Reads: 8,104 Replies: 2 |
XML and Personalized
Financial Plans The publishing industry
has long used markup
languages in the
production of
publications to a general
readership. Now XML
greatly facilitates the
design of publishing
systems whose
capabilities include not
only control of
for... Sep. 6, 2002 Reads: 7,581 Replies: 1 |
Practical Integration
meets XML Schema The outcome exceeded
expectations: OAGIS's
established and widely
used family of
horizontally focused,
DTD-encoded interchange
messages was updated,
eliminating major
usability issues inherent
in a DTD-based
implementation of t... Sep. 6, 2002 Reads: 6,747 |
VoiceXML CCXML SALT There's been an industry
shift from using
proprietary ap-proaches
for developing
speech-enabled
applications to using
strategies and
architectures based on
industry standards. The
latter offer developers
of speech software a
... Sep. 6, 2002 Reads: 8,578 Replies: 1 |
PopChart Server 4.0 Developers, and users,
generally agree that the
easiest medium through
which to digest data is a
graphical one. This rule
is particularly true
now, considering the
volume of data that can
be more easily obtained
from various dist... Sep. 6, 2002 Reads: 7,962 |
XML in the Auto
Industry:Summer 2002 The automotive industry
has been a leader in the
use of EDI and EDIFACT
over the past 20 years.
The deployment of EDI
processes down the
supply chain has not been
uniform, and a common
expression to use is the
'80/20' rule (e.g.,... Sep. 6, 2002 Reads: 7,837 |
OAGIS: A Canonical
Business Language It's been said that 'the
great thing about
standards isĀthere are so
many to choose from.'
Each industry vertical
today has its own
consortium (for some
there are several) that
define the standards to
be used within that
particu... Sep. 6, 2002 Reads: 6,450 |
Generate PDF Files with
XML,XSL-FO, and FOP This article will give
you enough information to
use the major features
of XSL Formatting Objects
(XSL-FO) in conjunction
with Apache's FOP API
for rendering documents
in Adobe's Portable
Document Format (PDF). Sep. 6, 2002 Reads: 12,519 |
Stick It in Your Ear As the 1970s drew to a
close, Douglas Adams's
'The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy' first
appeared on BBC radio.
'Hitchhiker's Guide' was
(and continues to be)
wildly successful - the
series was adapted into
a four-book 'trilogy... Sep. 6, 2002 Reads: 6,851 Replies: 4 |
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