As more and more Web sites begin using XML for their content, it's increasingly important for Web developers to know how to parse XML data and convert it into different formats. That's where the Perl ...

This article originally appeared in our sister publication, Builder Australia, as part of the Ask Chuck column. I want to create a Windows Application that allows a user to enter/edit/access data that ...

Figure 3. Big XML files. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image. Eight years since its inception, XML has already taken off as an open, semi-structured data format for storing data as well as ...

JPA-based applications can't connect to a database on their own. Rather, they need help in terms of what credentials to use, which schema to seek, which JDBC driver to select and which annotated ...

Welcome to another exciting edition of Linux.Ars! Some of you may remember a previous Linux.Ars which featured a Ruby/Pcap example of how to monitor network traffic. Today, Martin Colello provides us ...

The Web was originally intended to make content easily accessible. Today, Web developers focus on style and marketing, but the need to put together content-driven Web sites quickly and easily remains ...

One can also just store the XML untouched as character large objects (CLOBs), but in this case, the RDBMS “degenerates” to a simple hashed database. Object databases tend to store XML in a manner that ...

XML’s emergence did not initially make our lives easier—at best, they did not change much. We quickly started writing our many data formats using angle brackets, which looked neat, but did not make ...

XML is a markup-based data description language designed to allow developers to create structured documents using descriptive custom tags. The intent of XML is to separate the description of the data ...

SQL Server Reporting Services is fast becoming the mainstay for custom reporting in Microsoft-based shops. Connecting to relational tables, views, and procedures is easy and productive, and with ...