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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library In the first article in this series, you learned to register several types of XML schemas, how to validate XML data with them, and ways to get the validated information. Now explore several scenarios about evolving XML schemas and ways to manage the XML data in this article.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Many developers use entities in their XHTML for special characters, but in XML you can also define entities to make authoring easier, or to reference the content of external documents. Entities are also useful when you create a Document Type Definition (DTD) and want to reduce its apparent complexity to keep it readable by humans. This article will tell you all about XML entities and show you how to take advantage of them in your documents.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library 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(TM) 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.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Welcome, authors! This article shows you how to prepare English-language technical articles and tutorials for publication on the worldwide developerWorks site. The steps are simple. You download our XML-based template for articles or for tutorials, fill in the template using any validating XML editor or your preferred Microsoft Windows or Linux text editor, check it to ensure it follows the tagging structure as defined in the developerWorks schema, and preview your article or tutorial. Tips for composing your content and submitting it to the developerWorks staff are also included.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Examine a common information set -- an address record -- and consider the possible requirements to encode the information set and how to satisfy those needs with an appropriate tagging scheme. This article describes the three basic information analysis questions and applies those considerations to the decomposition of a typical name-and-address record.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Module 1 provides a glimpse of what XML is, what it can do, as well as teaches some basic concepts and code. Topics include: What is XML, advantages of using XML, XML basics, and XML concepts.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Creating applications that use a hybrid of relational data and XML data is easy thanks to the pureXML feature of IBM DB2 database servers. In this tutorial, you use PHP to create a Web application that connects to an IBM DB2 Express-C database and stores some of its data in traditional relational database columns, and some of it in native XML columns. You also learn how to use SQL/XML queries to retrieve, insert, update, and delete data from this database. Beyond the hands-on, project-based training, the tutorial equips you with the skills and conceptual knowledge you need to develop your own hybrid applications.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) is rapidly becoming the most important XML exchange standard for the U.S. government and its information partners. This article, the first in a four-part series, provides an overview of the process for defining a NIEM information exchange. It then takes you through the first step -- modeling your exchange using UML -- with special considerations for NIEM modeling concepts. A simple case study is used to illustrate the process.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library The W3C XML Schema Definition Language allows several powerful techniques for extending schemas to include or redefine elements and attributes. In this article, learn six techniques to extend and redefine your schemas to enable development of robust information architectures that can accommodate enterprise information needs.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library SugarCRM is the world's leading open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software provider, with over 5,000 customers and 500,000 downloads of the SugarCRM application all around the world. In December 2009, SugarCRM released version 5.5 of the application suite, which completely revitalized the Web Services platform. The changes include a faster, easier-to-use API, the ability to easily extend the API that is presented to a Web service client, and the addition of REST support. In this article, you'll take a look at what REST is and how to use the REST support in the Web Services API to interact with a SugarCRM instance.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Combine DITADoclet and DITA API specialization to save time and still produce quality API documentation directly from the Java source code.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Normally, when you store data in an XML file, you need to be careful about encoding it in a way that's safe and won't confuse the XML parser. The special XML markup characters need to be translated into entities, which can be cumbersome if you're writing the XML yourself in a text editor. To avoid this, you can use the CDATA section to store the data directly without having to worry about encoding. This article will tell you about XML CDATA sections and show you how to use them when you need to ship marked-up data along with your XML file.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Google Books allows Web application developers to access book lists and metadata through its REST-based developer API. The Zend Framework's Gdata module is able to process the XML feeds generated by this API and use it in the context of customized Web applications. This article introduces the Google Book Search Data API, demonstrating how you can use it to search for books by keyword, author, and title; retrieve book thumbnails and previews; and add reviews and labels to user libraries.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Digg is a social news Web site where users can submit news stories and links and also rank their popularity. Like most entries in the social networking genre, this Web site also provides an API that allows developers to programatically access the site's features. This article will show you how to use that API.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Optimization guidelines are a powerful tool that enable you to influence key execution plan decisions, including table access methods, index selection, join methods, and join orders. In the DB2 Version 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows release, the optimization guidelines infrastructure has been enhanced to support new XML-specific guidelines and to expand the scope of existing relational guidelines to XML operators. This article introduces DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows pureXML users to the guidelines infrastructure, and guides you through the setup and use of optimization guidelines for your SQL/XML and XQuery workloads.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library IBM DB2 pureXML allows you to store XML data natively in a relational database management system, giving you the power and flexibility to report on this data without disturbing the advantages that its XML format offers. In this tutorial, you will learn how to connect to a DB2 database from the Python programming language, importing data about population from the United States Census Bureau. You will use Python to convert this CSV file into XML, before inserting this XML data natively into DB2. Finally, you will use Python to create a command-line application that produces some informative tables that you can access through a menu system.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Every month, we publish lists of the Top 10 articles and tutorials -- a dependable list of the most-read pieces in the XML zone. Some articles and tutorials seem to be on that list almost every month, a tribute to their quality and ability to meet the needs of developers. What about the ones that just missed getting on that list? What about the new articles that are climbing their way up the ranks but haven't made it (yet)? As 2009 draws to a close, we decided to reveal the most popular articles and tutorials we published this year. (And, yes, we do know the title says 10 but we actually list more.)
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library MathML is a W3C Recommendation defining an XML vocabulary for marking up mathematical expressions. Version 1 was published as a W3C Recommendation in 1998, shortly after the XML specification was published. Three other versions of MathML have been published as Recommendations: MathML 1.01, MathML 2.0, and MathML 2.0 (2nd Edition), which since 2003 has been the Official MathML recommendation. The latest version, MathML 3.0, is nearing the final stages of being standardized (expected to enter Candidate Recommendation status in December, 2009). In this article, explore an overview of MathML, with particular emphasis on the new features in MathML 3.0.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library RSS, Atom, mashups, extraordinary search requirements and other developments are making native XML databases an important part of search applications and services. These types of databases excel at efficiently searching through large collections of semi-structured data. In this article, you'll find some common sense guidelines to maximize the performance of applications that use XQuery and native XML databases.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Learn how to build an XSLT plug-in for Version 2 of the IBM Mashup Center that takes advantage of the built-in support for Basic and Form-based authentication.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library In this connected and open world, where data flows freely, you can find a vast amount of useful information on the Web. In the past, if you wanted to find the location of the nearest store for your favorite retailer, you probably looked it up in the telephone directory, found the company's phone number, called them, and asked for directions to their nearest outlet. This method is a recipe for getting lost, wasting time, and a general frustration for the customer. Today, however, this has all changed. Now you simply open your Web browser and visit the company's Web site, where you can usually find a "Store Locator" feature that will help you find the store nearest to you, and conveniently plot it on a map to make it easier to find. In this tutorial, you will learn to develop such a feature using C# ASP.NET and an IBM DB2 database.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library The popular jQuery JavaScript library is best known for its use working with HTML, but you can also use it to process XML, if you're careful and aware of the pitfalls. This article shows how to use jQuery to process the Atom Web feed format. Web feed XML is perhaps the most pervasive XML format around, and the main fulfillment of the promise of XML on the Web. But most such formats use XML namespaces, which cause issues with many popular JavaScript libraries, including jQuery.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Explore the concepts, design, and implementation details pertaining to interacting with social media sites using various APIs and XML-based data formats such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS), Atom, Facebook Markup Language (FBML), OpenSocial Markup Language (OSML), SOAP, and plain old XML (POX).
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Part 1 of this series described the process of creating a UML model of an XML information exchange to be implemented in the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). In this article, take the next step -- map the model to NIEM to determine what parts of NIEM the exchange can reuse. Also learn how to create a subset of the NIEM model to include in an IEPD.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Google Base allows users to store any type of content online in Google's version of a massive online database. Web application developers are able to access and search this content through the Google Base Data API. This article introduces the Google Base Data API and demonstrates it in the context of a PHP application, explaining how to use SimpleXML and the Zend_Gdata module to search, retrieve, add, and edit different types of data on Google Base.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Thanks to the native XML support that pureXML offers IBM DB2 database developers, you can load XML data directly into your database, freeing up development time to add functionality to your application. Follow along in this tutorial to import an XML file with Euro foreign exchange rates into an IBM DB2 database and use special XQuery and SQL/XML functions to split this XML into separate database rows. You will also create a PHP script that pulls down new rates from the European Central Bank (ECB) Web site each day. Then you will extend the script to send update alerts to a Google Talk user using the XMPP protocol, and to a cell phone by SMS text message using the Clickatell SMS gateway service. Finally, you will create a PHP script that generates a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) graph of this data.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Java developers have a variety of choices when it comes to serializing and deserializing Extensible Markup Language (XML) objects. Simple is one such example, and it offers a number of advantages over its competitors. In this article, explore an introductory overview of how to use Simple within an XML communication system.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library A frequent goal of schema authors is to build schemas for extensibility, where wildcards play a key role in providing extensibility points. New wildcard features introduced in XML Schema 1.1 make it easier for schema authors to write extensible schemas that can tolerate changes in the future. In this third of a six part series of articles, authors Neil Delima, Sandy Gao, Michael Glavassevich, and Khaled Noaman take an in depth look at versioning features introduced by XML Schema 1.1, specifically the new powerful wildcard mechanisms and open content.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library With the Web 2.0 technology of OpenSocial gadgets, developers can easily include their applications in popular Web sites, such as iGoogle, MySpace, Hi5, LinkedIn, and others. In this article, explore OpenSocial gadgets through hands-on construction of an application that leverages the pureXML capability of DB2. This article is the last in a series of three that illustrates how to build a pureXML application whose user interface is a gadget that you can deploy in any OpenSocial compliant Web site. Follow the steps in this article to build a user interface that stores and retrieves the JSON data described in the first article through JSON Universal Services created in the second article.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library PHP developers commonly require the services of an Extensible Markup Language (XML) parser in their code. Along these lines, they frequently find it necessary to validate XML input. Fortunately, you can easily accomplish this in PHP. This article shows you how to validate XML documents within PHP and determine the cause of validation failures.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Zorba is an open-source, robust, and standards-compliant XQuery processor. The Zorba extension in PHP provides an API to Zorba functions from within PHP, and thereby allows developers to add sophisticated XQuery processing to their PHP/XML applications. Examine the Zorba PHP API in detail, and how to use it for a variety of purposes.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), a popular textual notation in Web 2.0, is used to represent objects (or data structures) as serialized text when clients and servers exchange information. Some applications benefit from persisting JSON objects to maintain state across sessions. In this article, learn how DB2 pureXML can store, manage, and query JSON when you adopt a simple JSON-to-XML mapping.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library The pureXML capabilities of IBM DB2 allow you to store XML natively in a database without modification, while Adobe Flex applications can read XML directly and populate Flex user interfaces. In this three-part article series, you will create a microblogging application that takes advantage of pureXML, Web services, and Adobe Flex; and even allows you to publish your microblogging updates on Twitter. In Part 1 of the series, you learned about Web Services and how they are enabled using DB2 pureXML as you created the microblog database and tested it. Part 2 tapped into Adobe Flex and ActionScript to create the user interface of your application. In this article, the final part of the series, you will learn how to use your pureXML Web Services to publish your microblog entries to an HTML page.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library The pureXML capabilities of IBM DB2 allow you to store XML natively in a database without modification, while Adobe Flex applications can read XML directly and populate Flex user interfaces. In this three-part article series, you will create a microblogging application that takes advantage of pureXML, Web services, and Adobe Flex; and even allows you to publish your microblogging updates on Twitter.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Apache Pivot is an open source platform for building rich internet applications (RIAs) in a Java environment. It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern RIA toolkit with the robustness of the industry-standard Java platform. Apache Pivot applications take advantage of WTKX, an XML-based language for user interface design, which makes the application's output easy to visualize. In this tutorial, you will follow the implementation of a simple but practical Pivot application that allows a user to execute searches against the contents of the iTunes Store.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library The number of people in the U.S. diagnosed with diabetes is now reaching 24 million. Diabetes requires monitoring. In this article, get an introduction to the concept of continuing care, particularly in the home. This article describes how diabetes monitoring can be improved through collaborative technologies. See how software from MyCareTeam, IBM, and other organizations are used in an example in support of diabetes monitoring. Understand information and Web-based technologies, such as XML storage and services (for example, through IBM DB2 pureXML) in the context of continuing care, as well as related initiatives, such as the Continua Health Alliance's role in selecting appropriate standards. This article summarizes the impact of these technologies on the building of agile and collaborative systems for healthcare, and highlights the significant benefits of collaborative continuing care that include cost reduction and increased quality of healthcare.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Today's blogs are used for much more than the traditional personal journal: They have matured to become an ideal Web publishing platform. Within the enterprise, blogs are often a central conduit for corporate, development, and marketing communications, which makes selecting open blogging software that conforms to standard XML APIs essential. Discover one such too -- MetaWeblog, a widely used blogging API -- and learn how to use its API to write your own blogging tools.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library The process of converting data is one of migrating information from an unsuitable source or format to a suitable one -- often not an exact science. Data scoring is a way to measure the accuracy of your conversion. Discover a simple scoring technique in XQuery that you can apply to the result of a small text-to-XML conversion.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Electricity is invisible. To understand how people use it, you need to make it visible. This tutorial will show you how easy it is to build a Web-based energy monitoring system yourself, using a Current Cost real-time energy monitor and AMEE, a neutral Web-based API for energy data, combined with some XML, Ruby, Rails, and Ajax.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library XML was born in 1998 when it became a Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation and the IBM developerWorks Web site was launched the following year. Over those 10 years, the XML zone has hosted over a thousand articles, tutorials, and tips. We've covered technology, tools, standards, products, best practices, predictions, evaluations, and developer experiences, and have supported a variety of forums. A 10-year birthday is a good time to look back at some of the authors who made the XML zone what it is.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library XML documents are frequently validated against either a DTD (less likely) or an XML schema (more likely). Recently, a new technology called Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) has emerged. It is endorsed by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). CAM represents a step up from XML schema because it provides even more flexibility in defining both the semantics of an XML document and the business rules associated with the actual data content. Take a broad overview of CAM, including its benefits over the alternatives, in this article.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library The Google Contacts Data API provides a powerful, client-neutral API to read and modify a user's private Gmail contact information. Learn to retrieve, add, delete, and modify contacts through a custom PHP application with this API in an application context.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library XMPP is a open protocol for XML-based communication over the Internet. Although it is most popular as an instant-messaging protocol, you can use it as a general messaging service, as well. Discover the ins and outs of XMPP, and learn how to use it for simple messaging.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library The ability to specify, check and act upon constraints is vital to ensuring the overall quality of healthcare information. The Health Level 7 (HL7) Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), described through XML Schema, allows the specification of constraints through HL7 Templates, which can be implemented in Schematron. Schematron can be applied through XSLT. This article illustrates software and hardware solutions for constraint checking in the HL7 CDA. The two solutions are demonstrated in an SOA that includes both successful and failing XML Schema and Schematron constraint checks. The article evaluates the application of constraints in the HL7 CDA and identifies some categories of constraints that require further investigation. The outcome of this evaluation shows that the ability to specify, check, and act upon constraints through Schematron complements XML Schema processing. The two constraint approaches are very useful and practical, and should therefore be pursued further.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library DB2(R) 9 provides pureXML storage and offers XQuery and SQL/XML as query languages. XML indexes are essential for high query performance, but their usage for query evaluation depends on how query predicates are formulated. This article presents a set of guidelines for writing XML queries and creating XML indexes in a consistent manner so that indexes speed up your queries as expected. Also learn what to look for in XML query execution plans to detect performance issues, and find out how to fix them. A downloadable "cheat sheet" summarizes the most important guidelines. This article has been updated for DB2 9.5 and 9.7. [2009 Jul 30: This article has been updated for DB2 9.5 and 9.7, including additional SQL/XML sample queries.--Ed.]
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Implement a simple search engine and add support for multiple output types such as XML, RSS, or SOAP for your sample Agavi program in Part 4. This five-part series is for the PHP developer interested in Agavi, a open-source, flexible, and scalable framework.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library This is the final article in a five-part series written for the PHP developer interested in learning about an open-source, flexible, and scalable framework called Agavi. You'll learn to support file uploads, store user data in sessions, integrate third-party libraries and create custom input validators for your Agavi application.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Technorati is a blog cataloging service that enables users to search virtually the entire blogosphere for articles of interest. Like most entries in the Web 2.0 domain, Technorati provides an API to automate much of its functionality. Also like most entries in the Web 2.0 domain, that API is provided as a REST service. In this article, work with examples and learn to get the most out of the Technorati API.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Learn how to integrate business-critical XML data into your data warehouse using IBM InfoSphere DataStage 8.1 and DB2 9.5 pureXML. This two-part article series provides step-by-step instructions for using pureXML as both a source and target data source for InfoSphere DataStage jobs.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library As you create cross-platform desktop applications using XUL, you also can enhance your skills with JavaScript, CSS, and even HTML. XUL's cross-platform capabilities are not a collection of least common denominator features. Instead, XUL gives you the kind of power that you might expect from a desktop application toolkit, including access to native threads. You can even access native threads directly from JavaScript, writing code that executes in parallel. In this article, you will examine the multithreading capabilities of XUL, and create an application that uses multiple threads to retrieve data. You will take a classic IO-bound application, one that accesses multiple remote data sources over the Internet, and speed it up through multiple threads in XUL. The application will allow users to view and compare anonymous results of three popular search engines: Google, Yahoo, and Bing from Microsoft(R).
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Writing GUIs in program code can often lead to messy design choices, which in turn results in a blurring between business logic and UI code. Discover how to create a declarative XML UI tag set with an accompanying Java(TM) framework that parses, validates, constructs, and finally binds the declared GUI components to business logic at runtime.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Discover how to leverage XML serialization and XSL-FO to generate dynamic PDF documents from Java(TM) business objects. Through XSL-FO stylesheets, you can separate the presentation (view) of data from the data and Java code, allowing for modifications to PDF format and layout without changes to the Java code.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library DB2 introduced pureXML technology in Version 9. This technology allows you to store XML data in its native form, maintaining the hierarchical structure and permitting you to query it using SQL/XML and XQuery. Just as with relational data, the ability to ensure the integrity of XML data stored in DB2 is mandatory. The methods and mechanisms for ensuring the integrity of XML data, however, are a bit different than the methods for traditional relational data integrity. In this article, you'll learn about XML data integrity in the context of DB2, and explore the various options you have to guarantee integrity in different scenarios.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Learn how to integrate business-critical XML data into your data warehouse using IBM InfoSphere DataStage 8.1 and DB2 9.5 pureXML. This two-part article series provides step-by-step instructions for using pureXML as both a source and target data source for InfoSphere DataStage jobs.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library This is the first of a five-part series of articles written for the PHP developer interested in learning about an open-source, flexible, and scalable framework called Agavi. In this first article, you walk through the installation of the framework and the other required components, get an overview of Agavi and its functions, and create your first Web application.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Continue to build the Web Automobile Sales Platform by adding the ability to add, delete, and update the automobile records in Part 3 of a five-part series. You will also see how to separate user functions from administrative functions with authentication.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Work with the scalable, open-source Agavi framework to create an input form, use Doctrine to auto-generate the data models for the project, and integrate these models into the Agavi project in Part 2 of this five-part series.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Today, there is a great deal of interest in energy, and its less-desirable environmental shadow, carbon dioxide. To create a more sustainable world, individuals, companies, and governments are focusing attention on energy and how we use it. The route to understanding our usage of energy (and therefore carbon) is to measure and analyze it, to understand the results, and then act on that information. AMEE is a neutral aggregation platform for all forms of energy and activity data, and associated carbon models. In this article, you learn how to use the AMEE platform in your applications to deliver a high quality energy management and carbon calculation solution to your clients.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Ruby is a feature-rich, free, simple, extensible, portable, and object-oriented scripting language. As a powerful text processing language, it has immense capability. With powerful built-in libraries and a set of external libraries, Ruby is a viable option for a solution to any mundane text processing task that you might encounter.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Cloud analytics allow developers to add many of the features of traditional business intelligence solutions without the overhead. Discover how to leverage the power of cloud analytics using Zoho Reports, the Zoho API, and XML to add analytical capabilities to any application -- either in the cloud or local.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Twitter is undoubtedly one of the most recent and successful examples of social networking to appear on the World Wide Web. Twitter also has its own search engine, which enables users to search for "tweets" by keyword or category, with an API to facilitate programmatic searches, act as a REST service, and return searches in Atom format. Discover the basics of using the Twitter Search API.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Atom is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) specification that identifies information contained in a Web site. Using Atom, Web developers produce feeds that enable other Web developers (or consumers who use feed readers) to quickly locate and view information of interest on a remote site. Think of it as a Web site's index, available to anyone who wants it. Using PHP, a popular language of choice for most host providers, a Web developer can easily produce an Atom feed that can then be made available to the various feed readers and other Web developers. The ultimate result is a state-of-the-art information solution that enables the Web content to reach a much wider audience.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Mashups are an exciting genre of interactive Web applications that draw upon content retrieved from external data sources to create entirely new and innovative services. They are a hallmark of the second generation of Web applications informally known as Web 2.0. This introductory article explores what it means to be a mashup, the different classes of popular mashups constructed today, and the enabling technologies that mashup developers leverage to create their applications. Additionally, you'll see many of the emerging technical and social challenges that mashup developers face.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Trying to migrate your EJB code to JBoss 5? Can't get the code to deploy and run? If so, this tip is for you. Or, are you new to JBoss 5 but you want to get a feel for the EJB 3 environment? This tip details the required XML deployment files to build, deploy, and run EJB3 code on JBoss5.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library By providing open access to increasing amounts of Linked Data, public SPARQL endpoints boost the growth of the Semantic Web by providing great data for you to use in your applications. As with many other data-driven Web sites out there, you can create a Web page by sending a query to these endpoints and then wrapping the results in HTML tags; the big difference for SPARQL endpoints is the public availability of this new data for your applications. With simple CGI scripting, get data from two different SPARQL endpoints to build applications that answer your user's questions about actors shared between two directors and which musicians have released which albums.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library For modern Web 2.0 sites, the ability to mash up information from different sources is a plus. You can use Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to get and process XML-based news feeds such as RSS and the more modern Atom Syndication Format. In this article, explore methods to access any appropriate feed -- despite same-origin policy (SOP) limitations -- and to process the incoming XML data.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library The IBM DB2 9 release features a significant architectural departure from prior versions. For the first time since its debut, DB2 is providing a new query language, new storage technology, new indexing technology, and other features to support XML data and its inherent hierarchical structure. But don't worry, all of DB2's traditional database management features remain, including its support for SQL and tabular data structures. Explore DB2 9's XML technology, and learn why IBM now considers DB2 a "hybrid" or multi-structured database management system. Originally written in 2006, this article has been updated to include product changes in DB2 9.5 and 9.7.
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