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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seems someone has decided to try and use something I wrote with their Japanese documents, and of course it doesn't work at all. <BR><BR>I have a VB program which uses MSXML and an XSLT file to parse ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...