Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

You know what a "legacy application" is? It's one that works.—Bill Cafiero This chapter introduces the approach presented in the book and discusses the...

Bart Simpson meets Wally and the Beaver This chapter presents a utility for converting an XML document to a single CSV file. It describes...

The Beaver finds the way to San Jose This chapter presents a utility for converting a single CSV file to an XML instance document....

Young men preen. Old men scheme.—Mason Cooley This chapter addresses basic features of the W3C XML Schema language with the intention of helping you...

Like conscience, too, love needs no authentication or validation by any authority outside itself.—A. J. Toynbee This chapter describes how to validate instance documents...

It affords me no satisfaction to commence to spring an arch before I have got a solid foundation.—Henry David Thoreau This chapter lays the...

From Mayfield[*] to San Jose and back[*] Mayfield, USA, was the home of the Cleaver family on the "Leave It to Beaver" show. This...

Ohio is the flat place between Hoboken and Malibu.—John Fleischman This chapter presents utilities for converting flat files to and from XML documents. A...

EDI has been described as complex low technology.—Paul Kimberley This chapter presents basic utilities for converting Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) files in the U.S....

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.—Genesis 11:7 This chapter presents a...

Solving the puzzle This chapter presents end user suggestions for using the techniques and utilities together to solve common conversion problems. I also present...

When we try to pick out anything, by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.—John Muir This chapter discusses general...

Even paranoids have real enemies. I chose this particular popular observation to start the chapter because I think we need to get some perspective...