Virtual filesystems can be made into writable virtual office documents. The old UNIX slogan “everything is a file” together with the xsltfs:// virtual filesystem allows for transparently editing ...

From time to time I come across datasets stored in xml files that I would like to use as inputs to various models. Currently I download an Excel version if it is available, but those are often quite ...

In the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) world, servlets complement applets on the server side and complete the definition of Java’s role in the client/server hierarchy and in multitiered ...

SQL Server Reporting Services is fast becoming the mainstay for custom reporting in Microsoft-based shops. Connecting to relational tables, views, and procedures is easy and productive, and with ...

FileMaker Pro, the database application from FileMaker Inc., a subsidiary of Apple, has been updated to version 6.0v4. With version 6.0v4, FileMaker Pro gets tweaked in the way it handles ...

Due to my situation, my XSL file has this one string variable, v1, that has a character I need to replace, and use the resulting string variable, v2, somewhere else in the XSL page.<P>However, to my ...

In this tip, take a closer look at the automated conversion of HTML form parameter names to JavaBeans. Form parameters are a part of HTML embedded in an XSL file and The generated beans serve as ...

XML and JSON are important to me, and I’m grateful to Apress for letting me write an entire book about them. In this article I will briefly introduce the second edition of my new book, Java XML and ...

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 ...