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[2003-03-26] Building a Desktop News Aggregator
Like most people who spend time online, I have a number of Web sites I read on a daily basis. I recently noticed that I was checking an average of five to ten Web sites every other hour when I wanted to see if there were any new articles or updates to the content on a site. This prompted me to investigate the likelihood of creating a desktop application that would do all the legwork for me and alert me when new content appeared on my favorite Web sites.
[2003-03-26] W3C boosts XML document referencing
Pointing to specific parts of XML documents is expected to become easier through a newly approved World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation, W3C announced on Tuesday. W3C issued its XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Recommendation, providing a lightweight, extensible model for identifying parts of XML documents. The recommendation step is the final, formal adoption stage at W3C. "What XPointer allows is for people to be able to point to different parts of an XML document," said W3C spokeswoman Janet Daly. "You might want to be able to identify a section or fragment in a large document and you want to be able to link to it."
[2003-03-26] Boeing Licenses XML Tool For Aircraft Documents
The Boeing Co. deployed XyEnterprise's XML tools for publishing technical manuals and service documents for the C-17 aircraft. XML Professional Publisher enables Boeing to take documents formatted in XML and publish them in print format or as Adobe PDF files, commonly found on the web. Boeing makes the C-17 Globemaster III for the Air Force. The aircraft is used to carry large combat equipment, troops or humanitarian aid across countries.
[2003-03-26] Sun Attacks Microsoft XML Strategy Shift
Sun Microsystems fired its first salvo at Microsoft's upcoming Office 2003 by calling into question the aim of Redmond's overall XML strategy, and touting StarOffice 6.1 as a low cost alternative for cost conscious enterprises. During a telephone interview, Sun's Iyer Venkatefen, product manager for StarOffice, told BetaNews that Microsoft was not abiding by the OASIS standards. With more than 600 members in 100 countries, OASIS, or Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, is a global consortium that establishes standards to ensure interoperability.
[2003-03-26] Using SAX for Proper XML Output
In an earlier Python and XML column I discussed ways to achieve proper XML output from Python programs. That discussion included basic considerations and techniques in generating XML output in Python code. I also introduced a couple of useful functions for helping with correct output: xml.sax.saxutils.escape from core Python 2.x and Ft.Xml.Lib.String.TranslateCdata from 4Suite.
[2003-03-26] Manipulate XML Data Easily with Integrated Readers and Writers in the .NET Framework
About three years ago, I left a software conference believing that no future programming would be possible without a strong understanding of XML. XML has indeed come a long way since the early days, finding its way into even the deepest recesses of common programming frameworks. In this article, I'll review the role and internal characteristics of the Microsoft® .NET Framework API that deals with XML documents and then I'll move on to address a few open points.
[2003-03-24] A Personal Version of XML, Courtesy of Netomat
As the adoption of extensible markup language (XML) spreads to corporate networks, helping computers speak to each other more efficiently over the Web, what about XML for humans? After all, the financial world has its own dialect of XML, called XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language). Tech services vendors have all their flavors of XML as part of the language frameworks for a coming era of Web Services among corporate networks.
[2003-03-21] Generate .NET Code With XSLT
Autogenerate classes that provide strongly typed access based on your database's XML Schema Definition. Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) is a declarative language that defines a series of rules for how XML is processed. Most XSLT transformations convert XML to HTML, but you can also use XSLT to create any type of text output, including VB.NET and C# files.
[2003-03-18] Inline XML
I was sitting at my desk a few days ago, whiling away the time and I suddenly wondered why HTML includes a < code > tag, and a < var > tag, and yet it takes marking up code no further than that. It'd be understandable to have just the < code > tag, but if they're going to have a < var > tag, shouldn't they have more programming tags?
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