The Web has been constantly evolving since it appeared about a decade ago. The days of plain text web sites are largely gone now and, among other things, vector graphics have become an increasingly common part of web pages. SWF, better known as the format used by Macromedia Flash, has become the med
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Getting Fancy with FOP
By Kurt Cagle – As with so many other terms, FOP has resurfaced with a different meaning—as an acronym for the Formatting-Object Processor, part of the Open Source Apache Project. The FOP processor performs an interesting stunt: it converts an XSL-FO file into an Adobe Postscript Description Format
Building a Client-Side XML Application
By Tony Stewart – This presentation describes a project I was involved in last year, when I served as Director of Consulting at RivCom, an XML consulting firm based in the UK. The project, entitled "XML/EDI in the Transport Industry," was part of a larger European XML/EDI Pilot Project that
Oracle to end support for 10.7 business apps
By Joris Evers – ORACLE will end support for its Version 10.7 business applications suite in June of next year, despite customer requests for another extension, an Oracle executive said.
Who is logged into the database?
By Jim Giordano – Here is a shell script that will list all the Oracle users that are logged in to all databases on your HP-UX machine.
Loading LOBs into Oracle using SQL*Loader
Assume, you want to load an enormous amount of photos (image files) into an Oracle database, then SQL*Loader can do this easily for you. SQL*Loader is the tool to load the entire content of an operating system file into one LOB column. Image files, that you are loading with SQL*Loader are referred t
WebContent Validation with XML::Schematron
by Kip Hampton – Kip Hampton explains how to use his XML::Schematron module to validate XML Web content with Perl.
XML Application Development with MSXML 4.0
MSXML (Microsoft XML Core Services) version 4.0 is a free, feature-rich server component for all types of XML processing, including XML, XSLT, and Schemas. It has comprehensive support for W3C and other major specifications, as well as many proprietary enhancements. This makes MSXML 4.0 a useful and
Basic XML and RDF techniques for knowledge management
This column, the third in a series, shows how to add semantic knowledge to an RDF application by incorporating WordNet synonym sets. With the added knowledge of the WordNet lexical database, you can search a set of RDF data for related concepts, not just one keyword at a time. As the demonstration i
AutoRegisterTableCol.sql
This tip comes from Don Beeler – Automatic create file for ad_dd.register_table and ad_dd.register_column