by Anthony Coates – Unlike traditional make utilities, Ant is written in Java, so Ant is a good cross-platform solution for controlling automatic file building. That is good news for anyone developing cross-platform XSLT scripts because you only need to target one build environment. Anyone who has t
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Debug XSLT on the fly
Debuggers are very handy in programming, but they can also be complex pieces of software in their own right — complex to set up, to learn, and to use. Sometimes you just need a quick print-out of some values that you suspect to be at the heart of a specific problem you’re seeing. In this article, U
Declaring Web applications with AppML
Writing Web applications is a lot of work. Along the lines of XUL for user interfaces, fellow XML site author Jan Egil Refsnes has developed an XML vocabulary for defining whole Web applications: Application Markup Language (AppML).
Normalizing XML, Part 2
by Will Provost – In part one of this article, we observed that while XML’s hierarchical model is somewhat at odds with the rectangular structure of relational data, the goals of data normalization as stated in the relational are certainly worthwhile.In this second and final part, we’ll look
Using OLEDB Templates to Retrieve XML Data Through XPath Query
The Oledbxpath.exe sample demonstrates how to use the ATL OLE DB consumer templates to extract an XML stream for a SQL Server 2000 Databases using an XPath query.
XML class warfare
By Uche Ogbuji – It seems there is no escaping class warfare. XML is a young society, but it is already succumbing to age-old divisions. The most direct roots of XML are in the processing of text documents, and XML is fundamentally a text-processing format. Many XML users, however, come from backgro
Sending E-mails from Oracle Database
In his first article for DBAsupport.com, Amar Kumar Padhi details how to take advantage of an e-mail server option in Oracle 8i that allows you to send mail from within your code.
Procedure to create synonyms
(Jaime Alberto Marin Jimenez) This tip will allow you to create synonyms and grant privileges for a user or a user’s group, on one object or all objects from a specific user. You can run this procedure from your system account without connecting to each user. It has been tested on Oracle v8.1.7. (R
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit (With CD-ROM)
This book/CD-ROM kit offers tools, samples, and best practices for using this software. It includes information about core functionality and new features of SQL Server 2000, covering data warehousing, security, failover clustering, scalability, XML, and digital dashboards.
ANSI JOIN vs. Previous OUTER JOIN Syntax
Q. Can I improve performance by using the ANSI-style joins instead of the old-style joins? A. You will not get any performance gain by switching to the ANSI-style JOIN syntax. However, when you are dealing with outer joins, the old-style JOIN (=* or *=) is not the exact equivalent of the ANSI