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E4X

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:55:00 GMT

Mostly for the E4X stuff - gotta check it out in more detail at some point.

developerWorks: Create an Ajax mindreader application with E4X and Prototype, Part 1: Build the Twenty Questions infrastructure

Building XPath expression from XML node

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:27:36 GMT

Ever do parsing of large XML/DXL documents? Does the parsing ever fail? If it does you know you need some way to log the offending element in a compact and standardized way. For situations like this (and numerous others) XPath is the way to go and with code like I'll show in this post you are good to go. Java code ahead!

Free on-line XPath tool

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:20:01 GMT

If you occasionally need to do a XPath query against a XML document and don't want to shell out the money for a professional tool to cover that need you should take a look at the BIT-101 XPath Query Tool.

XML entities when doing XSL transformations using LotusScript

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:35:33 GMT

I stumbled over an interesting post on developerWorks on external XML entities and XSL transformations in LotusScript: XSLT transform-ignoring external entity reference in R7.0.2 - but worked well on R6.5.4. I was puzzled by the post and looked a bit into it and was unable to find any real LotusScript API support for working with XML entities when processing XML in LotusScript.

I find it funny that there doesn't appear to be any real API support for XML entities in LotusScript that I can see anyway. Hmmm - gotta go into Sherlock Holmes mode...

Charts

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:02:52 GMT

This kind of XML/SWF charts is cool and exactly the kind of stuff I have been looking for, for at project I'm currently working on. Via Tim Tripcony.

Using the right version of MSXML in Internet Explorer

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:18:50 GMT

I have previously written about the Microsoft XML parser (MSXML) and have had quite a lot of fustrations with it and was pleasantly surprised to find a post on the Microsoft XML Team's WebLog on the subject. The post is called "Using the right version of MSXML in Internet Explorer" and provide details on the different versions of MSXML and which version to use where. The post even has an executive summary section which I recommend you skim though I'll reproduce the most important 4 bullets for MSXML here:

Use MSXML 6.0 - it is "in the box" on Vista and available for download on Win2k, XP, and 2003. It has the best security, performance, reliability, and W3C conformance
MSXML 3.0 is our preferred "fallback" - It is installed on every OS from a fully patched Win2k SP4 installation on up, so it requires �zero-deployment� and is serviced regularly with the OS
MSXML 4.0 was released to the web about 5 years ago, but at this point has been superseded by MSXML 6.0 and is only intended to support legacy applications
MSXML 5.0 for Microsoft Office Applications is purpose-built for Office applications and isn�t intended for broad deployment. Internet Explorer 7 actually has the MSXML5 components "off-by-default" in the Internet zone so your customers will get a goldbar for each MSXML5 control on a page if your code tries to instantiate it. The best recommendation is to avoid MSXML5 in your web apps (only machines with Office 2003 or higher will have it, anyway.).

Skim it now or save the bookmark for when you need to deal with MSXML.

Just say no to XML?

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:41:05 GMT

Just say no to XML? @ Java O'Reilly.

developerWorks: The Java XML Validation API

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:39:45 GMT

"Validation reports whether a document adheres to the rules specified by the schema. Different parsers and tools support different schema languages such as DTDs, the W3C XML Schema Language, RELAX NG, and Schematron. Java 5� adds a uniform validation Application Programming Interface (API) that can compare documents to schemas written in these and other languages. Learn about this XML validation API."

The Java XML Validation API