by Wei Meng Lee – Most XML developers are familiar with using Document Type Definitions (DTDs)—a schema that defines the content model of an XML document—to enforce the structure of XML documents. However, DTD has several shortcomings. First, it is not an XML document, so XML parsers do not process
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Web services and XML technologies CD
The CD contains articles on XML and Web services, tutorials on transforming XML documents and messaging with Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), related IBM white papers, and more.
XSLT in Context
This chapter is designed to put XSLT in context. It's about the purpose of XSLT and the task it was designed to perform. It's about what kind of language it is, and how it came to be that way; and it's about how XSLT fits in with all the other technologies that you are likely to use in
ADO.NET Loopholes
By Michael Otey – With the imminent release of Windows .NET Server, we’ll soon see deployment of applications built on the Microsoft .NET Framework. For DBAs and developers, the .NET Framework ushers in the next generation of Microsoft’s data-access technology: ADO.NET. A marked departure from earli
Integrating MSDE 2000 with Your Applications
The SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) offers application developers new opportunities to build desktop and shared solutions that are freely distributable and can be easily migrated to SQL Server 2000 technology if the customer or end-user wants to scale the solution up to thousands of users
Exchange’s transformation to .Net coming in 2003
By John Fontana – The biggest change in 2003 for Exchange will be the use of a common .Net data store, replacing the current Web Storage System in Exchange 2000. The change puts Exchange in line to offer its core messaging, calendaring and task features as reusable components, or Web services, to th
Generating Unique IDs and Linking to Them
by Bob DuCharme – When an XSLT stylesheet converts one XML document into another, the ability to add unique ID values to elements in the result document can make the result document much more useful to applications that use it. Adding unique IDs can, for example, turn each element into the unique ta
In the Eye of the Storm
Mark Lucovsky is Microsoft's chief architect of HailStorm, and Charles Fitzgerald is director of business development at Microsoft. XML Magazine's Editorial Director Steve Gillmor and Stuart J. Johnston, contributing editor, talked with Lucovsky and Montgomery about HailStorm's individua
Liquent and Software AG Form Partnership to Provide Total Best-of-Breed XML Content Management Solution
ESPS, Inc. (d/b/a. Liquent), the premier provider of global content access and transformation technology, announced a partnership with Software AG, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Software AG, the largest systems software provider in Europe and a pioneer in XML technologies. This partnership will offer
32-CPU Benchmark Underscores SQL Server’s "Abilities"
By Brian Moran – SQL Server passed a significant performance milestone last week when Unisys published Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) TPC-C results for its 32-CPU ES7000 server running SQL Server 2000. This accomplishment represents the first time Microsoft has been involved in a T