The methods shown in this article give you a robust and flexible way to extract and combine meaningful data from existing HTML files. HTML and the Web have permanently changed the way people communicate. XML promises to do the same for the way computer systems communicate. HTML is convenient for people—it makes information easier to view and navigate....
In this particular example we are going to display stock quotes from Yahoo. It retrieves the quotes in csv format the stores the results in an array and then we display a table with the information....
Tab delimited and Comma delimited files once were the standard in representing data outside of a relational database. With the inception of XML, developers can now represent their data in a much richer and more descriptive environment without the overhead or cost of relational databases. Converting legacy delimited files into an XML format allows developers to take advantage of many of the new technologies that have been created around XML. This article will demonstrate the conversion of a delim...
This article is about Scalable XML Processing on the Web Server. Pieter Siegers will discuss the different programming aspects, and after that presents a simple but typical application to give each aspect a place. This all adds to the overall understanding of this relatively new, and still evolving technology....
