By Eileen Colkin – Edgar Online Inc., the Internet-based company that provides electronic versions of Securities and Exchange Commission filings, is pushing hard for an XML-type standard for financial reporting. The eXtensible Business Reporting Language, XBRL, creates a standards-based method for c
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Microsoft targets XML, Java converter
By Gillian Law – XML will provide the technology standard necessary for Web services and Microsoft’s .Net platform will be the premier platform for development, general manager of developer platform and evangelism Vic Gundotra said in a keynote speech at Microsoft’s TechEd conference in Barcelona Mo
Serializing Java Objects as XML
By Thornton Rose – Until the release of Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) Version 1.4, Java objects could only be serialized to a proprietary, binary format. Now, Java objects can be serialized as XML documents, a feature of the new long-term persistence API for JavaBeans. This article illustrates how
XML Drives ID Management Systems
By Jim Rapoza – Once you get past all the politics and hype over competing identification management efforts, one fact is pretty clear: Underneath it all, these systems are very similar.<br><br>The main technology driving all Web services identification management efforts—as well as enterprise-based
XML appeal
XML’s appeal is that it’s easy to use, and it is not bound by the rules many of the current relational databases use. XML marks data in such a way that two systems can agree on the XML format and read the data. The language basically solves interoperability problems by providing an interface between
New XML-Based Spec Published
By Michael Singer – Four companies deeply steeped in the Web Services game Wednesday announced a new XML-based specification they say will help everyone get along better. The new Web Service Choreography Interface (WSCI) was co-authored and/or supported by BEA Systems, Intalio, SAP AG, and Su
Apache’s Xindice Organizes XML Data Without Schema
by Matt Liotta – A native XML database can make a lot of sense for organizations that want to store and access XML without all the unsightly schema mapping required to store XML in a traditional relational database system. Several commercial native XML databases exist; now, we take a first look at A
Tip: Stop a SAX parser when you have enough data
A SAX parser can be instructed to stop midway through a document without losing the data already collected. This is one of the most commonly mentioned advantages of a SAX parser over a DOM parser, which generally creates an in-memory structure of the entire document. In this tip, you’ll parse a list
The Book of Zope
Zope is perhaps the best known of the Python Web publishing frameworks. It includes its own Web server (though you can run it behind Apache or IIS, for example), FTP server, and ACID-compliant object database. There is more to it than that, but that’s Zope in a nutshell.
DSDL Examined
by Leigh Dodds – While researching this week’s article, I was surprised to note that while DSDL has been referred to for some time in several forums, including XML-DEV and this column, there isn’t much published information about the project, which is actually in a very embryonic stage. Some quality