By Jim Wagner – OASIS, a non-profit organization made up big-league names in the U.S. business world, has been invited to join an international standards body to determine the fate and shape of XML.
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Oracle Beats IBM in Java Development
According to an independent study conducted by market research firm Strategic Focus, not only does Oracle9i JDeveloper include intuitive wizards that eliminate the need for hand-coding–but it also supports all development approaches, from modeling and declarative development to programming, so it’s
Easier COM and .NET App Development With Oracle9i Database
Tune in and discover how Oracle9i Database’s extensive integration with Microsoft’s COM and .NET infrastructures allows Windows developers to build more robust programs in less time.Tune-in live: Tuesday February 19th at 1:00 pm PST/21:00 GMT
Introducing XML::SAX::Machines, Part One
by Kip Hampton – In recent columns we have seen that SAX provides a modular way to generate and filter XML content. For those just learning how SAX works, though, the task of hooking up to the correct parser-generator-driver and building chains of filters can be tricky. More experienced SAX users ma
W3C Advances XML-based Digital Signature Spec
By Thor Olavsrud – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Thursday advanced a major recommendation in the realm of Web services: XML Signature Syntax and Processing.The recommendation represents a cross-industry agreement on an XML-based language for digital signatures, and is the foundation up
Managing Change in Legacy Data Using XML
There is an accelerating trend to migrate electronic documents and data into XML. This has many advantages in terms of the ability to achieve results more quickly through the use of standard software tools. Many databases now support XML as a known data type and there is a growing number of database
Oracle9i PL/SQL Transforms and Performs
By Steven Feuerstein – PL/SQL has received significant upgrades in Oracle9i Database. This article reviews some of the most important of these new features and enhancements.
How to create an autonumber (ADO/Oracle)
This article explains how to create an autonumber for an oracle table. Autonumbers use a before insert trigger to retrieve an sequence value and assign the value to a primary key field. Autonumbers insure the uniqueness of the primary key.Directed to article by OraclePower.
Embed binary data in XML documents three ways
By Gowri Shankar – The major advantages of XML for interoperability of data are its extensibility and its ability to represent all forms of data in text format. XML proves its worth even when dealing with binary data. This article focuses on three ways to represent binary data in XML. The first meth
Message Patterns and Interoperability
by Leigh Dodds – Web services have been the major topic of conversation on XML-DEV this week following a discussion on types of messaging patterns and some wary initial reactions to WS-I, the "standards integrator" organization.