ITworld.com – No matter which way you try it, interfacing a mainframe from an application server or servlet is never fun. Among other hurdles to overcome, the mainframe could exist on a different ...

A lot of ASP applications produce their output based on the contents of one or more XML files. XSLT documents transform the browser-neutral contents of those XML files into browser-specific HTML. The ...

While a well-formed document is well-formed because it follows rules defined by the XML spec, a valid document is valid because it matches its document type definition (DTD). The DTD is the grammar ...

Figure 3. Big XML files. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image. Eight years since its inception, XML has already taken off as an open, semi-structured data format for storing data as well as ...

XML, or the Extensible Markup Language, is a standard managed by the World Wide Web Consortium. The flexible text format was initially designed for data exchange on the Internet. Yet it's become much ...