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I spent the last weekend childproofing our house. You see, my 11 month-old son has been in India for the last three months with his grandparents. We are going there this weekend to pick him up. I've heard he now moves around speedily and is not easily fooled by an adult's tricks. ...
As cross-platform data, XML is a natural solution for organizations that need to share information. The challenge is to assemble the proper information and deliver it to various clients in the desired format. United Business Technologies, Inc., facilitates this process through ...
In the last installment of XML in Transit (XML-J, Vol. 2, issue 5), we established a framework for Web Services usage. The key roles in the framework are service providers, requesters, and brokers (see Figure 1). Moreover, the basic Web Services use workflow involves five steps (see Fi...
The golden rule of a content management system is this: the day you take it to production is the day you start work on the next version of the system. Content contributors will submit change requests for the document structures and input formats, publishers will ask for more metadata t...
In designing markup languages, one of the first questions customers ask religiously is, 'Do you prefer elements or attributes?' In fact, if you examine many of the current markup languages on the Internet, you often see a strict schism between those that use mostly (or even exclusively...
Turbo XML 2.1, from TIBCO Extensibility, is a suite of XML productivity tools consisting of: XML Authority: For creating and authoring of XML schemas (DTD, XSD, XDR and many more) XML Console: For batch processing/validation/translation of XML documents XML Instanc...
This month, we'll focus on an important aspect of problem solving: finding the correct resources. The answers in this month's Q&A will demonstrate techniques from a variety of invaluable resources that have had a large influence, a few of which I'll mention here. In future columns oth...
In Part 1 of this article (XML-J, Vol. 2, issue 6), we discussed why XML B2B standards are converging rapidly and the part that the Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGI), is playing in the standards arena. In Part 2, the groundbreaking events of the B2B Vendor Challenge and other OAGI i...
In Part 1 of this article (XML-J, Vol. 2, issue 6) we introduced the key components of the Microsoft .NET Framework - ASP.NET, C#, and Web Services. In Part 2 we apply the .NET technologies to develop an interactive VoiceXML application. Toward the end of the article we review the conc...
This article presents a technical comparison of Electric XML and JDOM, two popular Java libraries for manipulating XML. It compares and contrasts the designs of each library, with a discussion on how these choices impact performance and ease-of-use. Benchmarks for several common operat...
On the surface, JDOM appears to be just another API for XML document manipulation, like Simple API for XML (SAX) and Document Object Model (DOM). However, JDOM takes document manipulation to the next level by providing a Java-centric, object-oriented approach to document manipulation.
MPEG, through the MPEG-7 Industry Focus Group (www.mpeg-7.com), has announced the third MPEG-7 Awareness Event (AE3), to be held in Washington, DC, on October 27, 2001. This year's event will be especially significant since it occurs during the launch of the ISO's (International Organi...
If XML is to have the same transforming effect on document-oriented applications as it has on transactional, business-to-business applications, it will have to be easily applied by authors who are experts in the subject matter, but have little knowledge of markup and less desire to lea...
Listen up! This is your security chief talking about XML encryption. I better not catch any of you dozing during my speech, because my Laser Pointer is set to stun! I have found that our online databases contain some unencrypted XML information. This is unacceptable!


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