#11732
XML: Structuring Data for the Web: An Introduction
This XML introduction is geared toward newcomers who have heard the buzz, but don't know what all the fuss is about. The article briefly surveys a number of new Web technologies such as XLL, XSL, RDF, DOM, MathML, SMIL, PGML, and how they relate to XML. Benefits of XML are stressed, as are potential applications in diverse fields. A reference section provides links to key XML resources, as well as to collections of other introductory articles.
Sall, Ken. Intranet Journal (2002). Design>Web Design>XML
#22590
XSLT Programmer's Reference: XSLT in Context
The purpose of XSLT, what kind of language it is, and how it fits in with other technologies you're likely to use in a typical Web-based application.
Kay, Michael. XML Advisor (2004). Design>Web Design>XML>XSL
#30455
In Mozilla-based applications, the yellow screen of death is the screen displayed when they encounter an XML parsing error. This typically happens when the XML document that the browser is trying to access is not well-formed, for example when it does not nest tags properly.
#22184
Перево XML- окументовс помощью xml:tm
Рано или поздно созданный вами XML-документ кто-то захочет перевести на другой язык. В действительности XML-документы переводить гораздо легче нежели другие электронные документы, т. к. они разделяют форму и содержание и соответствуют строгому стандарту и установленному синтаксису.
Zydron, Andrzej. XMLhack.ru (2004). (Russian) Design>Web Design>Localization>XML
#32239
RELAX NG is not a capitalized misspelling of something you probably get to do all too rarely as a busy programmer and web designer. If you use XML to any great degree, you'll want to take a close look at it. It can help make your life as a web developer easier, allowing you to relax a little more.
McCullough, Peyton. Dev Articles (2008). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>XML
#32240
XML schemas don't have to be rigid. Sometimes, it's best to provide flexibility and allow the author of XML documents to make choices. In this second part of a three-part article, we'll make some modifications to the schema we created in the first part, and learn how to make some things optional.
McCullough, Peyton. Dev Articles (2008). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>XML
#32241
Datatypes and More in RELAX NG
Welcome to the third part of a three-part series on RELAX NG. In this part, we will discuss datatypes, the grammar element, and creating named patterns.
McCullough, Peyton. Dev Articles (2008). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>XML
#32475
In releasing jQuery v.1.2, a decision was made by the development team to drop XPath support from the core. Instead, an officially released XPath jQuery plugin is now available, which provides deprecated functionality. Although initially disappointed by this decision, I was happy to discover that alternative methods for obtaining data from an XML file are still available without the plugin.
Reindel, Brian. d'bug (2008). Articles>Web Design>XML>Ajax
#32530
Microformat Encoding and Visualization
So you have heard about microformats, read the introductory articles, and even bought the book. But now you are probably thinking "great - I have done my part to make the web a better place by adding microformats; what's next? What can people do with my data besides add it to their address book or calendar?" The intent of this article is to get you to think about microformats in different ways, and to demonstrate some interesting visualizations and mash-ups of microformatted content.
Suda, Brian. Opera (2008). Articles>Web Design>XML>Metadata
#32682
The Wisdom of Crowds Meets the Wisdom of Authors: How XML Enables the Semantic Web
Key to the Semantic Web is semantic markup, which lets users annotate their web pages with metadata -- HTML attributes that don't get displayed in the document. Semantic metadata describes what the pages are about, letting authors define things with authority and precision.
Wlodarczyk, Paul. Content Wrangler, The (2008). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>XML
#33586
A concise list of all acronyms, with individual letter indices (always accessible via the letter bar) which organizes the full names as well.
#33649
Web 2.0: The Tipping Point for XML 
Have you been waiting for the right time to switch to XML publishing? O’Keefe illustrates that with the advent of Web 2.0, the time is now.
O'Keefe, Sarah S. Intercom (2009). Articles>Web Design>XML>Social Networking
#33743
Enhanced Interoperability for Security of XML Web Services
Enterprises are adopting Web Services to ease application integration across heterogeneous environments within and across security domain boundaries. Security is an important element for the adoption of Web Services. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has recently ratified the Web Services Security standards (Web Services Security: SOAP Message Security 1.0 (WS-Security 2004 ), Web Services Security: UsernameToken Profile 1.0 , and Web Services Security: X.509 Certificate Token Profile ) to provide an extensible framework for providing message integrity, confidentiality, identity propagation, and authentication. The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is profiling standards to provide guidelines for implementation and use of relevant standards to enhance interoperability. This paper describes the activities of the WS-I Basic Security Profile (BSP) Working Group (WG). This Working Group is chartered to improve interoperability of security technologies for Web Services by profiling the OASIS Web Service Security and HTTP Over TLS standards. This interoperability profile (known as the Basic Security Profile 1.0) is an extension of the WS-I Basic Profile . The WS-I Basic Profile addresses interoperability for implementations of core Web Services standards.
Austel, Paula, Michael McIntosh and Anthony Nadalin. IDEAlliance (2004). Articles>Web Design>XML>Security
#33765
Lessons from the Front Line: Building Interoperable Web Services
The ability to interoperate across disparate vendors, platforms and infrastructure stacks is inherently important to the adoption of Web Services technology. For most organizations, cross platform interoperability and the move to a loosely coupled, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is usually the main rationale for adoption of the underlying Web Service technologies. In this paper we will discuss some of the issues and stumbling blocks towards interoperability. We will also demonstrate with an example, how an application developed in Java and deployed in a J2EE 1.4 compatible container can interoperate and be consumed from a different client, developed in C# on the .NET platform.
Tyagi, Sameer. IDEAlliance (2004). Articles>Web Design>XML>Case Studies
#33779
The Foundation for Occasionally Connected Computing
This paper motivates the need for a lightweight, standards-based web services implementation that runs on mass market mobile devices. It describes the advantages of using web services and the challenges which must be overcome to use web services on mass market devices with limited computing power and network bandwidth. The paper concludes by describing a new approach to web services which drastically reduces the code required to exchange data with remote services, enabling the creation of more compelling applications with sophisticated user interfaces and application logic.
Rollman, Rich and John Schneider. IDEAlliance (2004). Articles>Web Design>Wireless Web>XML
#33787
DOM, SAX and Standards - Where Now?
It's been 7 years and three "levels" since the first W3C DOM activity. XML and the way it is used has changed vastly over that time. DOM itself has moved from an API to access and manipulate an in-memory tree with no concept of namespaces, to an end to end XML technology, where parsing, modification of the tree (with the ability to check for validity with a schema as you go) and serialization are all specified.
Reakes, Gareth, Alberto Massari, Lucian Holland and Neil Graham. IDEAlliance. Articles>Web Design>Standards>XML
#33805
Deployment Scenarios for Web Service Discovery
Several Web service discovery technologies including Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), Web Services Metadata Exchange (WS-MEX) and other lightweight protocols and techniques can be used for particular scenarios. This presentation will discuss the status of each of these technologies and how they relate to the Web services stack as well as which technology should be employed to solve certain types of Web service integration problems.
Hately, Andrew. IDEAlliance (2004). Presentations>Web Design>XML
#33823
As companies and consumers rely more on Web services, it becomes increasingly important for Web services developers to know how to properly design, develop, deploy, and ultimately manage a Web services system. However, because of the inherent complexities that can arise with a Web service implementation, it can be difficult to grasp practical fundamentals and devise a step-by-step plan for Web services development.
Ariola, Wayne. IDEAlliance (2005). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>XML
#33830
Getting the Most Out of COCOON: A XML-Based Webs Service for a Registration Agency
Since 2005 the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) is established as a DOI registration agency for scientific content. Data providers transmit XML-files containing the DC-based metadata descriptions of the scientific data to a webservice infrastructure at the TIB, which was created by the Research center L3S during a project founded by the registration agency for scientific content. Data providers transmit XML-files containing the DC-based metadata descriptions of the scientific data to a webservice infrastructure at the TIB, which was created by the Research center L3S during a project founded by the German research association (DFG). This webservice infrastructure is based on the web application framework COCOON. We have however extended COCOON with full webservice functionalities. Using XSLT the webservice is furthermore able to transform XML-metadata files into well-formed PICA-files to insert the metadata information into the library catalogue of the TIB.
Brase, Jan. IDEAlliance (2005). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>XML
#33836
Binding the Graphical Web (Component and Data Bindings with XBL, XHTML and SVG)
The emerging XML based web increasingly relies upon ways of presenting content in a just in time manner. Presentation technologies such as SVG and XHTML can do so, yet the power to properly harness them will likely lie in the emergent binding languages such as XBL, sXBL, and XTF. In this presentation, bindings and binding languages will be explored, illustrating how such environments as the Mozilla Firefox 1.5 browser are using XBL as a means for performing component binding into XHTML, SVG and XForms interfaces, looks at sXBL and the W3C's XBL directions, and details why such binding languages likely represent the future of XML presentation and interaction.
Cagle, Kurt. IDEAlliance (2005). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>XML
#33904
The Session Concept and Web Services 
This paper describes the session concept as it relates to middleware systems in general and Web services in particular. Common applications of the session concept are found in distributed object systems, the Web, and messaging middleware systems. The purpose of a session is to allow multiple individual Web Services to enter a relationship by sharing certain common attributes as an externally modeled entity. For example, multiple Web Services executing within the scope of a single authorized/secure session. In the context of Web services, explicit building blocks for session-oriented protocols and services have been proposed in two specifications, WS-Addressing and WS-Context. The distinguishing characteristic of these two proposals is the degree of coupling they introduce between session participants. In this paper we shall compare and contrast the underlying models these specifications present, as they relate to the session concept in Web services. The aim is to illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches and summarize best-practices and techniques for supporting a scalable Web services architecture. Note, although this paper is not purely research oriented, it does make an important contribution in the area of software practices and experiences for current and future researchers. The authors believe that it is important to ensure that the Web services architecture scales as well as the World Wide Web and as we shall see, the session concept and how it is provided play an integral role in that arena.
Hildebrand, Hal, Anish Karmarkar, Mark Little and Greg Pavlik. IDEAlliance (2005). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>XML
#33975
Building Dynamic Applications With Mozilla, REX and XQuery.
The Mozilla platform offers a rich support of XML techniques, from low level ones (XPath, RDF, DOM, e4x) to rendering dialects like XHTML, SVG, XUL and XForms, thus making this platform a natural choice for the XML inclined. It is becoming a platform of choice when developing rich connected applications. When building dynamic applications, the developer is often facing a common set of programming patterns : gathering data from various remote and local sources, storing data with an optional transformation phase, and updating parts of the GUI to reflect the modifications in the data store. With today's ubiquitous use of XML as a data exchange syntax, a major part of these tasks can be achieved with XML based solutions. In this article we will present an XML centric solution that aims at minimizing the impedance mismatch between different data models that plagues classical architectures involving for instance XML/object/relationnal translation. It combines some of Mozilla's existing capabilities with REX (Remote Events for XML) and a native XML database with XQuery support. REX provides means to update the XUL based GUI and the database, while the XML database is used as a versatile storage engine.
Desré, Fabrice. XML 2006 (2006). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>XML
#33982
The Essence of Declarative, XML-based Web Applications: XForms and XSLT
In this session, the author discusses best practices, common patterns and pitfalls in using XSLT as a host language for generating web-based user interfaces expressed in XForms.
Thomas-Ogbuji, Chimezie. XML 2006 (2006). Articles>Web Design>XML>XForms
#33983
Language Support for Web Service Development
We will demonstrate how enhancements to the XJ language (http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xj) facilitate the development of Web Service applications.
Peshansky, Igor and Mukund Raghavachari. XML 2006 (2006). Articles>Web Design>Programming>XML
#34005
Browser Problems with the XML Prolog
Some browsers have difficulty upon encountering the XML Prolog. In some cases, the browser will render all the markup as text. In other cases, when a browser has some XML support, it might attempt to render the document as an XML tree. To avoid these problems, many practicing web professionals prefer to leave the prolog off. This table will help you make that decision by showing you which browsers have known problems with the XML prolog.
Web Standards Project (2007). Articles>Web Design>Standards>XML
