If you're creating an XML document and want to write code that you'll actually be able to maintain … well, it may be time to learn a little Visual Basic, just so you can use XML Literals. It's a good ...

My last JavaWorld article “Simplify XML Processing with VTD-XML” looked at three important benefits of VTD-XML: performance, memory usage, and ease of use. VTD-XML makes XML applications not only ...

When the Classwell Learning Group began building a database of online lesson plans and other information for teachers, it needed to store and access content ranging from word processing files to copy ...

Nearly everyone is talking about XML (Extensible Markup Language) these days. But few understand what it's really all about. XML's proponents claim it will cure everything that's wrong with HTML and ...

Such interoperability could unleash amazing new automation and efficiencies in information systems, spawning a powerful new service-driven computer industry. For example, software might be written ...

Extensible markup language provides you with a way to organize test results and instrument control data, plus produce formatted reports. XML isn’t for everyone, at least not yet. Programming languages ...

THE REVOLUTION WROUGHT by Web-based standards and distributed computing environments is having tremendous impact, including the democratization of many specialized enterprise software functions.

What if there were a way to incorporate accountability directly into the same work that produces the actual design? As indispensable as computers are in electronics analysis, they generally have ...

The Microsoft .NET Framework includes multiple tools for generating XML documents, but the tools suffer from one failing: If the XML document is at all complicated then it's difficult to write code ...