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Feb
07

Style-free XSLT Style Sheets

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One of the most oft-marketed advantages of XML is the separation between content and the layout achievable through applying external CSS or XSL style sheets to XML documents. However, since work started on XSL, the focus has shifted from presentation to transformation. This has given birth to a transformation-only language, XSLT, which is much more widely used than its formatting counterpart, XSL formatting objects. This shift from presentation to transformation is leading to Read the rest of this entry »

Feb
06

Hello, Voice World

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In our last trip to Didier’s Lab, we encountered the aural world ofXML made possible by the VoiceXML language. This week I’ll explainmore about VoiceXML and create the classic “Hello World”application. But this time instead of seeing the result, you’ll listento it. People intrigued by the last article asked me if and howVoiceXML documents are used to build voice applications. Answeringthis question presents an opportunity to highlight VoiceXML’sfeatures, and the way its basic concepts make it ve Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft recently announced Microsoft.com Web Services, through which developers can get programmatic access to Microsoft.com services. Microsoft has big plans to expand the program to include querying MSDN, MS Technet, and MS Support sites. For now, however, the only service available is getting information on top downloads from Microsoft.com. But this is enough to get a taste of the architecture and for us to dig in and see how it might be improved.Microsoft.com Web Services are based on Read the rest of this entry »

Feb
05

News from the Trenches

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Last week’s XML-Deviant introduced a debate at the W3Cconcerning issues with the Namespaces Recommendation and URIs.Since then, the discussion on the newly created xml-uri mailing listhas exploded, with well over 400 messagesbeing posted in the first week! (And this from many who were spending the week in Amsterdam at WWW9.)Approaching such an in-depth discussion is not an easy task. Thisweek’s column poses some questions — and attempts to provide someanswers — to help guide developers Read the rest of this entry »

Feb
05

Examining WSDL

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Unlike today’s Web, web services can be viewed as a set ofprograms interacting cross a network with no explicit humaninteraction involved during the transaction. In order for programs toexchange data, it’s necessary to define strictly the communicationsprotocol, the data transfer syntax, and the location of the endpoint.For building large, complex systems, such service definitions must bedone in a rigorous manner: ideally, a machine-readable language withwell-defined semantics, as opposed to par Read the rest of this entry »