Manipulating XML data easily and efficiently in Java remains an important problem. Numerous approaches to XML binding exist in the industry, including DOM, JAXB, XML Beans, Castor, SDO and so on. In ...

I have previously blogged on several utilitarian tools that are provided with the Java SE 6 HotSpot SDK such as jstack, javap, and so forth. I focus on another tool ...

If you've been following this series on Builder.com, you already know that XML describes the structure of data and makes no assumptions about what the data it describes actually is, and whether that ...

Sure, .NET's got great support for XML, but what's a VB6 programmer to do? Learn to work with MSXML2's DOM parser, that's what. The Document Object Model (DOM) is the oldest, and arguably the easiest, ...

Schema evolution allows you to implement changes to XML schema by mapping the existing data to the new schema. Instead of having to export and re-import all of your XML data, you just create the XSLT ...

The second-generation .NET Framework builds on the tools of the first to provide better, more standards-compliant XML data validation. Technology Toolbox: XML, .NET Framework 2.0 Version 1.x of the ...

If you take a look at the vast number of different XML formats being used to describe something as intuitively simple as an invoice form, you can see one of the problems that is now beginning to crop ...

While designing large databases, one of the most commonly done things to incorporate future additions to the data fields is, adding a number of generic fields that can later be used as additional data ...