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One unpleasant fact of XML--its silent cholesterol, one might say--is its bloated, ASCII-text-based encoding. XML imposes considerable overhead on corporate networks, and on servers, messaging systems and underlying switching and [...]

Overview On February 10, 2003, the Extensible Markup Language (XML) celebrated its fifth birthday. Unless you are a web developer, this would seem insignificant. However, it is very significant. Technology [...]

SINCE ITS RELEASE IN 1998, XML has rapidly become the format of choice for independent data transfer. Because of its rather verbose nature, however, it can be tedious to work […]

THE .NET FRAMEWORK OFFERS many nice, simplified ways of programming, but its XML DOM implementation could still be further improved. For example, creating a new node is still a multistep […]

J2EE Dr .Net? It's a question that seems to scream from the cover of every trade magazine and conference brochure. Sun's Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Microsoft's next-generation .Net […]

A young man is admitted to the hospital suffering from a relatively rare flu. But it's the third case the examining physician has seen this week, and he wants more […]

SOAP, THE SIMPLE OBJECT Access Protocol, allows decentralized and distributed communications using XML as a common data format. Having worked on a SOAP implementation for PHP, I would argue that […]

Two major limitations hinder Web information queries. First, custom, page-specific parsers must preprocess data contained within HTML pages before meaningful information can be extracted. Second, data in traditional database management […]

Historically data mining and online analytic processing (OLAP) have been solely human activities. In other words, it is humans who specify analytic models, build them, and then consume the results. […]

Templates, word processing integrations and sophisticated XML editors are all suitable for content contribution and editing, but which interfaces are right for your organization? IT'S IRONIC. Technology providers have been […]

What led to the creation of SGML? Before SGML there was IBM's GML--not standardized. It was created in 1969 to solve what today we would call an application integration problem. […]

To create the Web as we know it, Tim Berners-Lee put aside much of the existing research on hypertext technologies and built a simple system that was easy to understand, […]

The past year has been eventful for VoiceXML, the standard that application developers and service providers have been promoting for the delivery of Web-based content over voice networks. Many recent [...]

Web services is a technology based on an open standard, allowing potentially any vendor on any platform to connect to the web service. This is a departure from an emphasis […]

Marshalling is a technique that allows a developer to represent C++ (or Java) objects in XML text format. The XML text can be transferred and demarshalled into C++ object on […]

In the new Microsoft vision user space applications are written with managed code in C#, VB, Managed C++, J#, or other languages using the .NET framework. This article is for […]

XML has become a popular format for transferring data between tiers in multi-tier applications, widely supplanting proprietary binary or text formats. One common scenario is returning data from a back-end […]

XML is a flexible markup language capable of representing information in diverse data sources, ranging from application data to structured and semi-structured documents to relational and object-oriented database output. As […]

I've been a Visual Basic programmer for many years and consider myself moderately experienced in programming standalone VB apps that make use of databases. Although I've had ideas for distributed […]

Over the past few months I've been laboring away at a new book for Cisco Press, which has the snappy title Developing Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services. In a nutshell, […]