XML.com and DevX.com publish new articles by Object Innovations authors

November 14, 2002. XML.com today published the article "Normalizing XML" by Object Innovations’ XML/Web-Services Curriculum Coordinator. Among its many popular uses, XML is often chosen as a language for representing persistent data. Although XML is fundamentally different from relational storage systems such as SQL databases, it turns out that the normal forms of relational theory can be applied effectively to XML document design.

In this new article in the "XML Schema Clinic" series on XML.com, Object Innovations’ XML/Web-Services Curriculum Coordinator Will Provost discusses schema design with an eye towards eliminating redundancy, and facilitating data maintenance, by informally "normalizing" the schema.

XML and Web services are both broad and diverse technical areas. If you are looking for training and need just the right combination of XML and Web-services skills, our modular courseware design can help you find the right fit for your team. See our XML/Web-Services Curriculum Guide for more information.

In another new article, "Five Steps to Writing Windows Services in C," published at DevX.com, Object Innovations book and courseware author Yevgeny Menaker shows you how to implement Windows Services, which are useful for performing tasks that don't require user interaction. C, not C++, is the best choice for learning the basics of these kinds of applications.

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