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Introduction XSLT is used for the transformation of XML documents into XHTML. We know that HTML uses predefined set of tags which can be interpreted by the browser. However this is not true for XML documents. XML does not use predefined set of tags. Hence, if we open an XML document in browser we cant [...]

XLink In HTML we use anchor tags to create hyperlinks. On the same lines we can create hyperlinks in an XML document using XLink. With XLink we can define two types of link : simple and extended. Simple links are links similar to HTML links and extended links are used for linking multiple resources together. [...]

How to Query XML using XPath Introduction XML Documents are nothing until some kind of Components called Parsers parses the Documents to extract the meaningful data. Some of the most popular DOM parsers are the Simple API for XML (SAX) and Document Object Model (DOM). Both these parsers have their own advantages and disadvantages in parsing [...]

XQuery is a concept very similar to SQL. As sql is used to query database tables we can use XQuery to query XML data. Xquery can be used to query XML documents, data which is in XML syntax and databases. Using XQuery we can find XML elements. This can be very useful in situations when [...]

Looking into Axis 2.0What This Book Covers This book is organized in a such a way that it will lead you to gain a very good understanding of Web Services and AXIS 2.0. At the end of the book, you will have become familiar with most of the commonly used AXIS 2.0 features and concepts. You will be [...]

About this book RSS and Atom are the most widely used of many content syndication formats that have developed over the last few years to address the need to distribute and receive streams of content from websites and applications. Sites syndicate content for a broad variety of reasons, from replacing email as a medium for [...]

Benefits of using Web Services Exposing the function on to network: A Web service is a unit of managed code that can be remotely invoked using HTTP, that is, it can be activated using HTTP requests. So, Web Services allows you to expose the functionality of your existing code over the network. Once it is [...]

SOA Service Oriented Architecture or SOA for short is a new architecture for the development of loosely coupled distributed applications. In fact service-oriented architecture is collection of many services in the network. These services communicate with each other and the communications involves data exchange & even service coordination. Earlier SOA was based on the DCOM [...]

Java API for XML Web Services(JAX-WS) is an important part of latest JEE specification (Java EE 5 platform). In this article we will see how to develop JAX-WS based web services using NetBeans 6.1 IDE. This article will not provide any of the theoretical information about JAX-WS. Software used NetBeans 6.1 Java 5.0/6.0 GlassFish V2 [...]

Apache Ant Example This article explains how to write a very basic ANT build script. This does not explain indepth knowledge on building your project using ANT script. But, this writeup will be more useful for the beginners who haben’t writen any ANT script before. Before start writing the script, lets look into how to [...]