The Integration Engineer
When it just has to work.

If only it were really that simple.

Well, maybe it should be. The evil robot found this video, and thinks it is good enough to share. But don’t get your hopes up. This lays out some foundational information, but there are so many ways to use XML that this is well short of a complete overview.

But it was still fun to watch.

Once. (more…)

If you are going to work with XML, you will need to understand Xpath.  Xpath is the syntax by which elements or data inside an XML file are referenced.  Parsers and XSLT use Xpath so that they can find the data that needs to be parsed or transformed.  If you understand the fundamentals of XML and how it is formed, understanding Xpath is a logical next step.  This is a brief explanation of how Xpath works and how it is used. (more…)

One of the common data formats that we encounter today is XML.  This could be just plane XML, or any of the standardized versions; cXML, ebXML, etc.  But there are some basic commonalities between these.  And if you haven’t dealt with XML much, you will need to know something about it sooner or later.  This post is a brief introduction. (more…)