by John E. Simpson – How do I convert Microsoft Excel data to XML?The easiest way is to use either a commercial product (such as Infoteria's iMaker for Excel — $150 for a single developer license) or any of a number of publicly-available Visual Basic/Visual Basic for Applications (VB/VB
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Who Owns XML?
By Paola Di Maio – The IT industry over the last decades has been lead commercially by companies like Microsoft and Oracle, who tightly manage their kits and never even talk to people on the phone unless they are paying customers.Their respective proprietary technologies have become ‘de fact
VoiceXML Planet 2002 Conference & Expo
The first focused event of its kind, VoiceXML Planet 2002 Conference & Expo is the premier VoiceXML event for business and technology leaders who are looking for strategic, technical and market opportunities in the emerging interactive voice applications and services market.
Performance testing SOAP-based applications
SOAP is a boon in the quest for interoperability between servers — but it is still a challenge to deliver SOAP-based solutions which perform well in production environments. Frank Cohen offers tips on overcoming scalability problems, and introduces a free open-source utility to proof performance in
Real-world XML Schema
By Paul Golick – This article presents a set of 17 broadly applicable practices for using XML. These practices were published by the Association for Retail Technology Standards to aid its development of standardized XML messages for exchange between information technology systems that support retail
Web Services Acronyms, Demystified
by Pavel Kulchenko – In many cultures, the end of the year is a time for review and contemplation. Most of my work is related to Web services, and it should come as no surprise that I would like to take a look at the latest developments in that field. More than twenty acronyms related to Web service
XML database doubts
By Timothy Dyck – As XML becomes an increasingly important data interchange format, it makes sense to look at new ways of storing information directly in XML and using XML-based tools for data query and manipulation. However, what those tools will look like is still very much up in the air.
Fat protocols slow Web services
Last time around, I told you that if you wanted to support Web services you could look forward to upgrading your old servers and adding new ones. And, indeed, that will go a long way to making Web services fast enough to keep your users happy. But that's only part of the story.
An Introduction to the XML:DB API
by Kimbro Staken – In my last article, Introduction to dbXML, I provided an example that used the XML:DB API to access the dbXML server. This time around we'll take a more detailed look at the XML:DB API in order to get a better feel for what the API is about and how it can help you build applic
Populating an HTML Template with XML Data
By Yehuda Shiran – To convert an XML file to HTML, you start by writing the skeleton of the HTML file, specifying all tags such as <BODY> and <H1>. The content between each pair of tags is selected by XML directives. Take a look at the following line: