Tag: XML
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Nothing makes you want Groovy more than XML
I’m in Delaware this week teaching a course in Java Web Services using RAD7. The materials include a chapter on basic XML parsing using Java. An exercise at the end of the chapter presented the students with a trivial XML file, similar to: <library> <book isbn=”1932394842″> <title>Groovy in Action</title> <author>Dierk Koenig</author> </book> <book isbn=”1590597583″> <title>Definitive…
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Groovyness with Excel and XML
Today in class one of the students mentioned that they need to read data from an Excel spreadsheet supplied by one of their clients and transform the data into XML adhering to their own schema. I’ve thought about similar problems for some time and looked at the various Java APIs for accessing Excel. I spent…
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Brush with (semi-)greatness
This week I’m teaching an XML class in NYC. It’s actually a basic XML class along with some XML schema training, in order to help the client work with data coming from external sources. I’ll know more when the class starts tomorrow, but I expect to work with fairly sophisticated schemas. Since the class is…
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The SOA bandwagon
Just a quick post this morning from sunny Dover, Delaware. I’m doing an XML class this week with a brief introduction to web services. Web services is hot, but mostly because the buzzwords “service oriented architecture” is hot. I can understand the motivation: high level IT executives see all these systems they’ve spent so many…
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Processing XML using Java
Someday, and that day may never come, I’ll remember that in a DOM tree the text value of a node is stored in its first child, not in the node itself. It’s one of the things I always emphasize to my students, but manage to forget when I have to do the actual processing. Last…