REST offers a great way to build simple applications that Create, Read, Update, and Delete resources. But what if you want to get at part of a resource?... More info

By default, Schematron uses XPath 1 for setting contexts, testing assertions, and producing dynamic diagnostics. Actually, it is XPath 1 as used and extended in XSLT 1. This has lead many people to think it is just a nicer declarative... More info

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I recently did an interview with Rich Seeley for SearchSOA/TechTarget on the relationship between eXtreme Transaction Processing (XTP) and SOA, CEP, BPEL and BAM. Here's an excerpt - ... More info

As someone who arrived much later to the XML party than most of my peers & mentors, this week's series of XML @ 10 years posts has been a wonderful history lesson. Today, Norm Walsh posted an even more surprising... More info

In celebration of XML 1.0's tenth anniversary, I signed back on to XML-DEV to suggest that it's time to do to XML - just the core of it, please - what XML did to SGML around SGML's tenth anniversary.... More info

Financial institutions are pushing the envelope and require more processing capability, but without requiring exponential increase in hardware costs. The growth of extreme transaction processing (XTP) in areas such as fraud detection, risk computation, and stock trade resolution are pushing current solutions such as those based on the mainframe to the limit. These new applications require a new computing paradigm. More info

With the onslaught of excitement around AJAX and RIAs, incredible user interfaces that engage users in a passionate and sticky experience is paramount. Creating these experiences requires much more than just great developers or creative designers. It takes both sides working together in a very disciplined and choreographed workflow that empowers designers to create world class interfaces and enables developers to implement those interfaces to create rich and engaging experiences quickly and efficiently. The designer to developer workflow is the focus of the major players in RIA and will be the defining area that decides whether your RIA development succeeds or fails. Come hear from the industry?s experts in RIA design and development about approaches, experiences and lessons learned. More info

V1, the subcommittee advising the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) on formats, has failed by a tantalizing two votes to endorse Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format, already standardized by ECMA, as fit for ISO standardardization even though Microsoft reportedly packed V1 with its friends in anticipation of the vote last week. Despite the fact that V1 had only seven voting members a few months ago and 26 last Friday, the 13th, as it happens, no two-thirds consensus was reached and now INCITS' executive board is going to have to sort through the stack of V1's technical comments and come up with an American position through a 30-day letter ballot. There could also be a reconsideration ballot after that. More info

JSON lets one take advantage of the 'On Demand Javascript/Script Tag hack' described earlier. This technique allows new HTML script tags to be dynamically generated and the 'script' to be downloaded from any server. When the downloaded script is made up of data formatted in JSON, the script tag is effectively being used to download new data across domains outside of the same-origin policy. More info