By Brian Moran – Publicly, Microsoft loves and supports Java. But let’s face it, Java is a four-letter word to most people in Redmond. Microsoft architects (especially the .NET folks) probably wouldn’t mind if Java and its related platforms simply faded away so that Microsoft could get on with the b
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Command Line Transformations Using msxsl.exe
Until now, there has been no off-the-shelf way to perform command-line Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) transformations using the Microsoft® XSL processor. MSXSL is a small command-line utility that invokes MSXML3.DLL or MSXML4.DLL to perform the transformation.
Roll Your Own Swing-based XML Editor
By Kyle Gabhart – If you've been looking for a cross-platform, open-source XML editor, you've likely come up short. In the following series of three articles, I will walk you through the development of a simple, no frills, XML editor, utilizing several of the most common Java 2 Swing compone
Idoox WASP Lite 3.0 released
The toolkit, available for free, includes support for SOAP 1.1, WSDL 1.1 and W3C XML Schema. It features development tools for Sun Forte for Java, remote debugging of web services, dynamic proxy generation, and many other features.
New PASS North America Dates Announced
Thank you for being patient while we deliberated on a new PASS user conference venue. PASS is pleased to announce that PASS North America has been rescheduled to January 28-31, 2002 at the Adam’s Mark Hotel in Denver, Colorado, USA.
ASP Neat Released
ASP Neat is a powerful, yet easy to use, code generator for Active Server Page code. Database programming for the web just got easier, and much faster!Designed for use with Microsoft SQL Server and MS Access databases, ASP Neat helps you to quickly create Active Server ‘Page Sets’ for basic
Microsoft Accepting Applications for SQL Server SP2 Beta Program
By Kathy Blomstrom – The Microsoft SQL Server product team is accepting applications for the SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2) beta program. Only registered members of this private program will receive the beta version of SP2 for testing and evaluation purposes. SP2 beta program participants will
Fast XML Access in .NET Using the XMLTextReader Class
by Peter G. Aitken – Microsoft's .NET Framework offers lots of goodies for developers. With the ever-increasing importance of XML, you would expect a full set of powerful XML tools to be included. And you'd be right; the .NET Framework does not disappoint. Grouped together in the System.XML
PHP and XML: Parsing RSS 1.0
by Kevin Yank – In this article, we'll learn how to use PHP to read an XML document and display the data it contains as a Web page. The example we'll use is a Resource Description Framework (RDF) Site Summary (RSS) 1.0 document, although the techniques presented here apply to any situation w
Putting XSL transformations to work
By Mark Colan – This paper introduces the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) and highlights several real-world business scenarios that benefit from the use of XSL transformations. XML data comes in many forms, so one of the most important technologies needed for XML applications is the ability to