Archive for the ‘XML’ Category

I just hacked together a very simple class and CLI script to help me generate Google sitemap XML on a daily basis using PHP. If you have not yet heard of it: Google sitemaps help you promote your content if you have certain deep links that only show up if a visitor for example performs [...]

I had the case to build a WebService which had to be called transporting an array with some user data. This was the first time I was using an array as parameter in a SOAP-Service. Here are some examples that show what I figured out about how to setup the WSDL: Example WSDL describing use [...]

XPath Checker is a Firefox plugin that lets you mark areas in a webpage and returns the appropriate XPath query to select this bit. You can then change the query to see the selected values. Goto: http://slesinsky.org/brian/code/xpath_checker.html

When starting to use XML-related technologies like XSL and XPath, the details and concepts can be intimidating in the first place. One question I had to solve was: How can I create a testing setup on my windows workstation that takes a XML source file and a ‘console’ from which I could execute XPath queries [...]