XML Humor: New years resolutions for all XML developers.

Bowne Financial Print, the world's largest financial printer, leading EDGAR filer and a division of Bowne & Co., Inc. (NYSE: BNE), is the first company to make a filing in XBRL through the SEC's new XBRL Pilot Program. XBRL technology helps to significantly improve the collection, processing, dissemination and analysis of financial data - hence facilitating the comparison of corporate earnings and other financial statements across companies, industries and reporting periods. Read more....

The technology known as Extensible Markup Language has become a nearly universal way to share information online. But there's a growing recognition that XML's benefits sometimes come with a price tag: sluggish performance.

For some, nothing beats the adventure of setting off on a trip to some faraway land carrying nothing but a toothbrush and a guidebook. Traveling to some remote locale and bringing little of the comforts of home is what makes it interesting and rewarding–no Holiday Inn for these hardy souls.

Enterprise affection for XML Web services may have C-level hearts fluttering over the immediate efficiency and productivity gains, but the other shoe is about to drop in this relationship.

Strengthening the XML family, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. XInclude 1.0 provides a method for merging multiple XML documents into a single composite document.

Configuration files are a problem for both operating systems and applications. Where do you keep them, how are they structured?

Enterprise affection for XML Web services may have C-level hearts fluttering over the immediate efficiency and productivity gains, but the other shoe is about to drop in this relationship.

Paul Kimmel explains a seldom-documented but useful technique for reconstituting an XML node in a web.config or app.config file into an object. This technique is used by Microsoft programmers in valuable tools such as the Exception Management Application Block (EMAB) to permit you to treat an XML node as a persisted XML object.

Many XML technologies and tools, such as XSL for transforming or formatting XML data, are useful and powerful. In some cases, it even makes sense to use XML technologies to process non-XML data. This article introduces the idea of handling non-XML data with XML technologies based on the author's experience developing a data transformation tool. The key point here is to XMLize the non-XML file format first, and then further process the generated XML files with a corresponding XML technology.

If you follow web services, then you may have heard of REST. REST is an architectural style that can be used to guide the construction of web services. Recently, there have been attempts to create such services that have met with mixed success. This article outlines a series of steps you can follow in creating your protocol--guidance that will help you get all the benefits that REST has to offer, while avoiding common pitfalls.

Data tiers hold the promise of vastly simplifying application maintenance and reducing the number of redundant data stores in your organization.

Blast Radius is helping companies make better use of their corporate data by using the company's open source XML content management and creation tools. Various businesses are employing the technology so they can work with and utilize mixed data types.

Last month we looked at XSLT's role in the reference implementation for Schematron, a schema language that lets you express many constraints that can't be expressed in RELAX NG (RNG) or the W3C Schema language (XSD). Instead of defining an entire schema, Schematron rules usually supplement the structural and typing rules described using one of the other two languages—or perhaps even written as a DTD—so that a Schematron rule set typically accompanies a schema written in one of the other languages.

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2004--The rapid adoption of XML and Web Services has a significant downside. As network traffic based on XML increases, IT data center administrators and developers are quickly realizing that the operational inefficiencies of XML are bogging down their general-purpose hardware and software, according to ZapThink's latest report, "High Performance and Appliance Approaches for XML."

Most Web masters, at one time or another, are asked to create an online survey for their company's web site. This isn't a terribly difficult task with just plain HTML and traditional ASP, but suppose you'd like to be able to create a survey quickly -- I mean really quickly -- and you don't want to be stuck with the same look and feel you used last time. Rather, you want to create a survey with completely new questions and a fresh new look and feel. Well, that might be a bit time consuming, depending on how much of your original code you're able to reuse.

XmlSS.NET is a managed spreadsheet component based almost entirely on XMLSS, the XML Schema defined by Microsoft to govern the Excel workbook document instance. What follows in this article is a very brief introduction to XMLSS for those of you who are not already familiar with the subject, followed by a very quick rundown of the purpose, design, implementation, and use of the XmlSS.NET spreadsheet component.

Again in my articles, I would like to return to problems of teamwork among Web designers and programmers. On the one hand, the problem looks as though it does not exist at all. But on another—in the development of complex and difficult sites, with huge files, and frequently varying data—this question of correct co-operation of Web designers and programmers is a big and important question! Designers usually are not technical geeks. And they also do not want to learn, for example, JSP to help the programmers. And they are right, because they need to do their own jobs well. So, what happens when programmers make a big change to the business logic of a project? They need to inform the designers, who will have to work with complex code, that consists of numerous lines of HTML, JSP, JavaScript, and other code in one place. It could be painful.

One of the excellent features of the next release of SQL Server, known as SQL Server 2005, is its deep XML integration with the SQL Server database engine. This integration goes well beyond the simple relational-to-XML mapping layer that SQL Server 2000 provided. SQL Server 2005 will feature a native XML data type that will allow you to store native XML data in SQL Server itself.

Populate Table Control Dynamically from DataReader According to a Format Given in an XML File.