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 ...

Since the Java Servlet API’s inception, developers have used diverse technologies to develop Web applications in Java. Recently, developers have started to recognize the merits of Model 2, a scheme ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I work for a health-care company developing application software. My colleagues and I are responsible for writing software to process health-care claims, manage work flow and make the company as ...

I'm struggling with xslt grouping in one case. Now, I have managed to get the grouping working perfectly with a source document like the following. I'm grouping on the id in this case. Where I cannot ...

In previous articles, I have discussed XML’s value as a data format for Linux users. I have also discussed a wide variety of Linux tools for processing XML. But the data that XML usually represents ...