This article examines how to use VBScript classes to transform XML documents for use in a Web application. Before tackling this article, readers should have a solid understanding of classes and XML. To learn more about either of these subjects, be sure to check out the following links:

This article shows how to use SimpleXML to read an XML file, parse the results into a useful form, and query the document with XPath. I use RSS for the examples, since some versions of RSS are nice and easy. Then there's RSS 1.0. It uses RDF, multiple namespaces, and defines a default namespace for its elements. (Not so nice and easy.)

This article examines an example of multiple binary file upload for Web applications using Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology, without the typical limitation of traditional file upload processing. It describes how to use Microsoft XML Parser 3.0 (MSXML) and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Stream objects for a new upload strategy with several benefits. For example, no custom ASP components are required.

This is the third and final part of the "XML basics" series. The series started with an introduction to XML covering the fundamentals of XML and how XML is available in Domino. The second instalment covered server side processing of XML using Domino Java agents. The final part in this series covers client side processing of XML using the browser, focusing specifically on using data islands and data source objects to store XML data inside HTML pages which can be accessed and manipulated using scripts.

In this article we're going to take a look at some of the terminology that comes with using XML and its related technologies, as well as how to create and transform XML documents with XSL using Microsoft's MSXML parser. To test the code samples shown in this article you should be running Windows NT/2000/XP with IIS installed. You should also have SQL server 2000 installed on the same machine.

Many articles have been written about how to send an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file and an associated Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) file to Web clients to reduce processing load on the server. Unfortunately, in the real world this isn't going to solve many problems because you are left with a few issues that won't go away:

This article should teach you the basics of XML use in Visual Basic 6.0 programming. The article covers XML, XSL-XSLT, CSS and more. This article is suitable for anyone with Visual Basic 6.0 and XML/XSL knowledge.

The interest in XML comes especially from two directions: the Web, which is reaching the limits of HTML and SGML publishing, which is looking for a way onto the Web. This document addresses both groups of interest. It gives a short description of XML, its origin, its concepts and its purpose.

XML (eXtensibe Markup Language) is a magnet for hype: the successor to HTML for web publishing, electronic data interchange, and e-commerce. In fact, XML is just a notation for trees, little more than a verbose variant of Lisp S-expressions; and a way to define tree grammars, a poor-man's BNF. Yet this simple basis has spawned scores of specialized sub-languages: for airlines, banks, and cell phones; for astronomy, biology, and chemistry; for the DOD and the IRS.

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a W3C Recommendation for creating special-purpose markup languages. It is a simplified subset of SGML, capable of describing many different kinds of data. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of structured text and information across the Internet. Languages based on XML (for example, RDF, SMIL, MathML, and SVG) are themselves described in a formal way, allowing programs to modify and validate documents in these languages without prior knowledge of their form.

What's wrong with the Web and how can the new XML technology fix it?

Less than two months after the XML specification became a W3C recommendation, on April 7, 1998, the Mathematical Markup Language Specification (MathML) was approved as the first major XML vocabulary, a domain-specific language based on the XML meta language. "MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content, " according to the MathML Recommendation.

Object-oriented parser to read/write XML files using MSXML parser

This is an article about XML and one of the ways that you can generate XML. I had this project where the design was in the form of an 'n' tier and the application demanded that, the data should be displayed using XSLT. The input the XSLT is XML Data. All the Data for the project was stored in SQL Server 7.0 and we were supposed to retrive the data convert the data to XML and give it for further processing in the form of XSLT Transformation. We had to give out put in various level of hirearchy.

Developing tailor-made applications used for a specific purpose has been around for a long time. The watchword then was to develop an application for a client, tailored and customized for his own needs. Those were days where clients had little or no knowledge about technologies around. But now, the scenario is different altogether. Clients have become more technology-aware thanks (rather, shouldn't I thank) to the Internet. I would just say that an end user buying a payroll package would expect it to work for his factory, his shop and where ever he needs to pay people regularly, of course, by just changing the business logic to calculate the pay. As a result of this, the whole community of application developers has taken a U-turn towards building generic applications, which need little or no tailoring before they can be shipped to different classes of users.

The PUGXML parser is very useful in lightweight applications which use XML. However, it does not readily compile in VC++ 6.0, and it does not provide the ability to perform XPath queries.

A Class Library that holds a Managed Provider to retreive Load DataSets from Xml sources.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) has evolved considerably in its short five-year history. It started out as a simple way to mark up data and relied on seasoned technologies for data validation, such as document type definitions (DTDs). As XML has matured, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has added new technologies—such as XML Schema, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), and XPath—to support and enhance its usefulness. XML has grown from being primarily a data-exchange format to one you can also use to generate graphics, PDFs, and even word-processing documents.

The very nature of the success of the Web lies in its capability for linking resources. However, the unidirectional, simple linking structures of the Web today are not enough for the growing needs of an XML world. The official W3C solution for linking in XML is called XLink (XML Linking Language). This article explains its structure and use according to the most recent Candidate Recommendation (July 3, 2000).

Direct display of XML in a web browser is finally becoming a reality. This article is the first of a series in which we will examine XML support in the Mozilla, Opera, and Internet Explorer browsers. -- E.D.