adgerFish is a convention for translating an XML document into a JSON object. Once you've got your XML document represented as a JSON object, it's easy to manipulate from within Javascript. If you're familiar with PHP's SimpleXML extension, think of BadgerFish as aiming for a similar goal: making it simpler to do common manipulations of XML documents with a predictable structure.
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a lightweight, text-based, language-independent data interchange format. It was derived from the ECMAScript Programming Language Standard. JSON defines a small set of formatting rules for the portable representation of structured data.
Espresso provides an API as soon as you register your database. It introspects the database schema and populates the repository with the required metadata. Each table becomes a REST endpoint with services such as pagination, filtering, and optimistic locking out-of-the-box.
This sample shows how to use Google Calendar as an event source for a Simile Timeline widget. Now you can display your calendar data on a snazzy AJAX timeline! Here we display the Google Doodle calendar with web content events along the Timeline. You can