Jon Newell

Jon Newell

Jon Newell is a Senior Web Application developer for InfoMC in Plymouth Meeting PA where he designs and builds N-Tier hosted enterprise applications for Behavioral Health Managed Care Organizations. Being no stranger to the industry Jon has developed applications for everything from embedded targets to VAX mainframes and everything in-between. He can be reached at jnewell@earthlink.net.

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  • XML Data Binding for IE5 clients

    Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2000 - Summer

    Jon Newell advocates using XML as the data transport to bind server data to HTML in IE5+ client applications, separating content from presentation to enable multi‑platform reach and better scalability. By embedding XML data islands in server responses and using nonstandard yet IE‑friendly attributes (XMLTABLE, XMLFIELD) on form elements, data is bound on the client via a lightweight JavaScript library (binddata), with an optional sync back to XML islands and easy posting back to the server. This approach promotes true N‑Tier separation and interoperability across fat, thin, and mobile clients.