Sitemaps are an ingredient that completes a website’s SEO package. They are certainly still relevant, since they ensure content is not overlooked by web crawlers and reduce the resource burden on search engines. Sitemaps are a way to “spoon feed” search engines your content to ensure better crawling. Let’s look at how this is done.
We have written before advocating XML over JSON and discussed why they can’t be friends. The times are changing and technologies like XML as well as others like MySQL that have been standards for years have to adapt or fail. It is clear that JSON has taken the top of the food chain. An article
PHP has great tools built in for parsing XML files. SimpleXML is perfect most anything, especially XHR responses, but is too resource intensive for large files. There are no easy solutions for parsing large files, and the major setback to non-DOM parsers is that they require more coding and are not intuitive. PHP’s XML Parser
We’ve brought up that XML is a vital skill for developers. Parsing XML is an essential task, but can be a confusing place for beginners. There is no one stop shop for libraries that can handle the creating, editing, parsing, and the like of XML documents. Let’s take a look specifically at parsing which involves
This is the third part of the Understanding the PDF forms series, and in this article I aim to introduce you to XFA forms, the XML Forms Architecture. So how do you find XFA forms in a PDF? As with the FDF format you will find a tag called ‘AcroForms’ within this tag there are
The U.S. Supreme Court determined last Thursday that Microsoft must pay $290 million to i4i for violating its patent. The proceedings began nearly four years ago in 2007 when i4i accused Microsoft of using its patented Custom XML (later called Content Control) technology in Office 2003, 2007, and in Vista. The battle, however, was fought
Correct markup for end tags in XHTML and HTML can get confusing real quick because of all the exceptions and lack of enforcement, as others have pointed out. Wrong markup, such as using XHTML’s self-closing tags, is often corrected by browsers or ignored, as this comment explains. As a concise general statment: XHTML requires end
When transforming an XML document into another format, XSLT provides a clean and portable method to accomplish the translation, and simple template match rules will often suffice to map the source tree onto the result tree. Often, however, some nodes need to be processed twice and represented more than once in the result tree. The
There are countless things powered by XML documents. One of these things is a slide show background feature in Gnome, the GUI that powers many Linux distributions. With this feature, you can setup your desktop backgrounds to automatically change at specified intervals. It’s a pretty spiffy feature. Equally impressive, however, is how I ran across
I recently ran across an interesting question on stackoverflow. In summary, a novice developer hads been learning XML and XML related technologies, such as XPath, XSLT, Xquery, Schemas, etc. This developer acknowledged the importance of learning XML, but questioned whether or not this array of X-related technologies was worth his time. DevWebPro has covered the
