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 ...

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 ...

Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations (XSLT) is a computing language specialized for mapping XML documents into other XML documents. Explanation of XSLT is no small ambition. The problem ...

As predicted by most industry pundits, XML is the defacto standard for representing data as it flows between two systems. But applications need standard ways to manipulate the data contained in an XML ...