Often it is useful for XML data to be presented as a spreadsheet. A typical spreadsheet (for example, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet) consists of cells represented in a grid of rows and columns, ...

XML is a great way to store structured data, but finding that data in a way that makes sense can be difficult. Each language has a specific way of querying namespaces, elements and attributes in an ...

The Microsoft .NET Framework includes multiple tools for generating XML documents, but the tools suffer from one failing: If the XML document is at all complicated then it's difficult to write code ...

Can you explain object-oriented programming to me like I'm 5 years old? Probably not. But here's a straightforward explanation of what OOP is ... Use Spring MVC MultipartFile, Java Path APIs and the ...

This chapter describes methods to convert XML documents to rows in relational tables. This conversion is commonly known as shredding or decomposing of XML documents. Given the rich support for XML ...

JAXP provides wrappers around two different mechanisms for processing XML data. The first is the Simple API for XML or SAX, and is covered in this chapter. The second, the Document Object Model (DOM), ...

My last JavaWorld article “Simplify XML Processing with VTD-XML” looked at three important benefits of VTD-XML: performance, memory usage, and ease of use. VTD-XML makes XML applications not only ...

A file that contains text with interspersed descriptions, called "tags." All XML files are XML documents and vice versa. The XML document is often organized in a hierarchy with an "open" tag at the ...

In the middle part of this decade, Microsoft engaged in an extensive effort to create open standards derived from its own XML-based file formats, such as XPS and Office XML. This work was widely ...