(Adam Delves) In our last article, we touched the surface of Ajax by developing a simple email validation application. In this article we are going to delve deeper into Ajax and explore how XSL can be used on both the client side (using Javascript) and on the server (using PHP) to transform XML data
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Determine the correct XML parser type for a Java application
(Padma Apparao) The benefits of XML spring primarily from the standard’s inherent flexibility and its suitability for use with any kind of data at any depth of complexity. The extensibility features of XML enable one to define new tags as needed. XML also provides validation checks for structural co
Hints and sorts
(Jonathon Lewis) There is white paper on OTN at present about the improved sorting algorithm used by Oracle in 10g Release 2. The file name of this paper is twp_general_sort_performance_10gr2_0605.pdf and, as the name indicates, it was written about six months ago to describe the general improvement
Publish Data Using External Tables in Oracle 10g
(Arup Nanda) John Q. Public is a very angry man. As the vice president of operations at Insurance R Us, an international life insurance company, he is responsible for making sure the information flows rapidly and accurately among various entities inside the company to provide the adequate levels of
PostgreSQL experts: Why are you still using a big bucks database
(MiMi Yeh) Your company doesn’t have to pay big bucks for a big database. If your apps are not completely chained to Microsoft, then you’ve got a chance to save money and get enterprise-level scalability, functionality and ease of use with open source PostgreSQL, say Robert Treat and Jason Gilmore,
Why PostgreSQL can best SQLServer, Oracle
(MiMi Yeh) Some people think PostgreSQL 8.0 is just a backend database for Web sites. They’re as well informed as people who think the moon is made of cheese, according to Robert Treat and Jason Gilmore, co-authors of Apress’ Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional. (R)
Web Services: The State of the Art in Tooling
(Joe Pluta) When I started this project, I had hoped to look through a whole range of tools and then compare and contrast them. I figured that with the immense amount of work that has been poured into standardizing the entire Web services industry, from SOAP to UDDI, it would be child’s play to pick
Implementing Error Handling with Stored Procedures
(Erland Sommarskog) Error handling in stored procedures is a very tedious task, because T-SQL offers no exception mechanism, or any On Error Goto. All you have is the global variable @@error which you need to check after each statement for a non-zero value to be perfectly safe. If you call a stored
Programming Serial Ports Using Visual Basic 2005
(Wei-Meng Lee) Visual Basic programmers who do networking programming will no doubt be familiar with the MSCOMM control in VB6. For those of us who followed VB’s progression to VB.NET, it was a big surprise to find that control missing in .NET 1.x. What we had instead was Platform Invoke (P/Invoke),
AJAX-A New approach to build better web-application
(ChiranjibC) Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, or its acronym, Ajax, is a Web development technique for creating interactive web applications. It is used to submit a server request from a client using JavaScript and XML, without submitting the whole page. As a result the whole process is exchanging s