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As web applications replace web pages on the Internet, there are a number of approaches that are being taken to add new functionality to these sites. One approach, the one perhaps most heavily used by applications, is programmatically controlling different parts of a web page via scripts and user events. In most cases, this process creates some form of binding on elements after the fact, which can often lead to fairly messy JavaScript code both in terms of long blocks of scripts and inline event handlers calling those JavaScript functions. Read more »

Over the weekend, a client of mine was hacked, part of what seems to have been a broad, rootkit based attack that took out a number of sites in what appeared to be prep work for zombification of servers for spam delivery. I won't give out the details of this particular incident, as we're still trying to figure out the exact exploit, but it brought to light a few facets of emergency preparedness that should be thought about when dealing with XML databases in particular. Read more »

I do not have the solution (of course)

Recently, I remarked that JSON vs XML arguments somewhat invalid ... mainly due to the fact that JSON is applicable to a much smaller subset of scenarios then XML.

The example I use to illustrate JSON's constraints was too imagine creating a database where the internal representation (no not binary on disk persistence) was JSON ... which probably implies that one would be using some javascript to query and generate views from the database; something I don't want to contemplate. Read more »

I have installed eXist and Mark Logic on a Server

Both are running well as far as I know.

My main problems for some months were: migration of applications from Windows 2003 IIS6 NET 2 to Windows 2008 IIS7 NET 3.5 and SQL Server with various discrepancies and failures

My first objective is to rebuild Web Applications, (I made some years ago), based on NET and MS SQL DB, using new programming and design architecture. Read more »

I thoroughly enjoy working with most XML databases, but one of the features that I especially like working with is the fact that you can treat collections as a form of file system - up to and including using graphical file managers to drag and drop files directly into the database. This magic is accomplished via the power of a particular protocol called WebDAV (the DAV in this case standing for Distributed Authoring and Versioning, and can be thought of as an early form of RESTful services). Read more »

Got Markup? (of course you do!)

Want to get more out of it? Want to stretch it to the limit? Come to Balisage 2010, the peer-reviewed conference that makes you a markup geek (or at least feel like one)! Whether you're into theory or practice, this is the place to be to find out where the cutting edge is-and go beyond it. Balisage looks at every aspect of markup, from its theoretical and philosophical underpinnings to the newest and coolest ways of applying it to real-world problems. Read more »

The magnitude 7 earthquake that hit Haiti earlier today had left devastation in it's wake - tens, if not hundreds of thousands dead, millions missing, and much of the city of Port-au-Prince flattened. While this is not XMLToday's ordinary beat for me, as one who has been through a couple of earthquakes this resonates strongly with me. I'm be pulling together a list of syndication and twitter feed links here - please feel free to add to the list if you come across one I haven't listed yet. Read more »

XML's dead - at least if you believe the JSON fanatics. Its moldering rotting corpse is now gathering flies while JSON emerges as the dominant data messaging standard world-wide and AJAX reins supreme. The language is now pushing up the daisies. XML is, to pardon the pun, an ex-language. I know, because ZDNet is now reporting that XML is, if not quite dead yet, then definitely at death's door, and that JSON will be the undertaker. Read more »