I was once asked to help in a project that required a simple data transformer for converting raw bill data into different bill layouts. After receiving a brief introduction to the problem, I suggested ...

As predicted by most industry pundits, XML is the defacto standard for representing data as it flows between two systems. But applications need standard ways to manipulate the data contained in an XML ...

Orbeon's engineers constantly work with bleeding-edge XML and J2EE technologies and frequently publish papers and articles. They are the developers of Model 2X and XPL. These technologies are ...

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 ...

If you don't already, start thinking about designing your Web pages with a single, cohesive theme. You may recall that in the early days of the Web, cohesiveness was implemented with server-side ...

In some commercial software projects, you cannot afford to cast in stone the structure of business objects. For example, different companies may have different and even mutually exclusive requirements ...