The XML format is a common standard for document and message exchange. Learn how to use WebSphere Transformation Extender to easily migrate legacy data to XML. WebSphere Transformation Extender separates data transformation logic and business flow logic, which can save on maintenance costs. Walk through a scenario that includes examples and source code. Create a WebSphere Transformation Extender map to retrieve legacy data from a database and transform it to an XML file.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are part of the vector family of graphics. They have several benefits over their raster counterparts: JPEG, GIF, and PNG. In this article, explore the basic concepts and usage of SVG graphics in HTML5. Learn about drawing, filters, gradients, text, and adding SVG XML to web pages.

The pureXML capabilities of IBM DB2 allow you to store XML natively in a database without modification, while Adobe Flex applications can read XML directly and populate Flex user interfaces. In this three-part article series, you will create a microblogging application that takes advantage of pureXML, Web services, and Adobe Flex; and even allows you to publish your microblogging updates on Twitter.

XML is best suited to storing data, so it's inevitable that at some point someone will ask you to pull information from a database and manipulate it as though it were XML. This tutorial will teach you to access a database using JDBC and use SQL to pull information, which you will then use to build an XML Document using a predetermined mapping.

The IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) specification is a widely used standard for marking up questions and other learning material. Look at the response and result processing for a QTI item and learn what happens when a user answers a question.

Learn how to publish XML documents in HTML and PDF using the css2xslfo utility.

In Part 2 of this series, learn about mining association rules from XML documents. Mining association rules from XML documents is different from mining rules from relational data. Information can be structured differently in XML because of the language's flexibility and hierarchical organization. This article also introduces the notion of dynamic association rules. You'll explore an approach to mining XML association rules when the underlying XML documents change without a full re-run of the association rules discovery algorithm.

XML is used for data representation, storage, and exchange in many different arenas. This series explores one facet of XML data analysis: XML data mining. In this first article, get an introduction to some techniques and approaches for mining hidden knowledge from XML documents. Learn about mining data, the hierarchical structure of the information, and the relationships between elements. Subsequent articles will cover mining XML association rules and clustering multi-version XML documents.

Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the standard framework for the Semantic Web and a recommended framework for the Linked Data movement. This article details the most recent updates to and implications of the RDF concept specification. It also covers some new ontology specifications such as data cataloging vocabularies and RDF database mapping systems.

Learn to build an iOS slideshow application as you walk through the process step-by-step in this article. The example application will communicate with a web server to retrieve an XML slideshow definition and display the images contained in the slideshow.

Welcome, authors! This article shows how to prepare technical articles, tutorials, and knowledge paths for publication on the developerWorks site. The steps are simple. You download our XML-based template for articles or for tutorials, fill in the template using any validating XML editor or your preferred Microsoft Windows or Linux text editor, check it to ensure it follows the tagging structure as defined in the developerWorks schema, and preview your article or tutorial. Tips for composing your content and submitting it to the developerWorks staff are also included.

The microdata specification lists two reasons why you might want to use microdata: To allow generic scripts to provide services that are customized to the page or to enable content from a variety of cooperating authors to be processed by a single script in a consistent manner. In this two-part series, learn to use microdata in both of these ways, starting with generic scripts on top of microdata. In this article, you will write one snippet of HTML to give you both an interactive event map and to enable Google, Bing, and Yahoo to display your page better in search results with Rich Snippets.

With Google, Yahoo, and Bing's announcement of schema.org, microdata is quickly gaining ground as a way to create applications that rely on data from many different websites. In this article, learn how to use Drupal to add microdata to your pages. Easily make your content available for use in applications such as Google's Rich Snippets.

It's simple to introduce mistakes that go unnoticed in XSLT stylesheets. Neither static nor dynamic error checking helps: Only thorough functional testing will reveal them. XSLT 2.0 introduced several new options and possibilities, and you can use some of them to make your stylesheets safer and your testing easier. Discover these XSLT 2.0 features, such as the type system, to add otherwise-impossible error checking to your stylesheets.

Android, the most commonly used smartphone platform, also functions on mobile tablets. XML is the standard medium of data exchange. You can use the same builder, parser, and transformer APIs for standard XML parsing and transformation and for Android. In this article, create and parse an XML document on an Android device using a DocumentBuilder object obtained from a DocumentBuilderFactory. You'll parse the XML document using an extension of an XML pull parser.

The ACORD Transactional/Business Wrapper (TXLife) XML specification is the preferred data format for internal and external data integration within the life, annuities, and health insurance industry. The standard is broad and flexible. Learn the structure of ACORD TXLife messages, the challenges implementers face, and the tools and techniques that you can use to successfully implement the standard.