I was once asked to help in a project that required a simple data transformer for converting raw bill data into different bill layouts. After receiving a brief introduction to the problem, I suggested ...

SQL Server Reporting Services is fast becoming the mainstay for custom reporting in Microsoft-based shops. Connecting to relational tables, views, and procedures is easy and productive, and with ...

I work for a health-care company developing application software. My colleagues and I are responsible for writing software to process health-care claims, manage work flow and make the company as ...

Orbeon's engineers constantly work with bleeding-edge XML and J2EE technologies and frequently publish papers and articles. They are the developers of Model 2X and XPL. These technologies are ...

I have an XML with date/time in it, in UTC. I transform this XML using XSL, and would like to show the date/time in the user's timezone, and in the user's preferred date/time format. I need this to ...

I've got a rather messy XML file and a complex XSLT. The XML file describes several folders and the documents they contain. Unfortunately, I cannot include the document's language directly in the XML, ...

Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) is an XML application for describing the page layout of an XML document. In other words, it can make the XML document both pretty and ...

In some commercial software projects, you cannot afford to cast in stone the structure of business objects. For example, different companies may have different and even mutually exclusive requirements ...