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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...