By Brian Kotek – One of the most immediate and powerful benefits of using ColdFusion is that you can use variables in your Web pages. You reference ColdFusion variables using the format #VariableScope.Variable.Name#. Although a scope is not required for many variables, it is highly recommended so th
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Controlling Evaluation Order
By Russ Whitney – Solve order and pass numbers are among the most complex concepts in SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services' MDX language. Many analytical applications require calculations—in the form of calculated members, custom formulas, and cell calculations—to be embedded in the cubes. Individu
A New Kind of Namespace
by Edd Dumbill – Followers of this column will be more than aware that when a technology emerges from the W3C there are always teething pains. W3C Recommendations aren't quite the shrink-wrapped parcels of authority they're often taken to be. Perhaps the canonical example of this has been th
Experimental non-XML syntax for RELAX NG
James Clark has announced the release of an experimental non-XML syntax for RELAX NG and a Java translator implementation that converts instances of the syntax into RELAX NG's XML syntax.
WIPO Publishes XML DTDs for the Electronic Patent Cooperation Treaty Application
Revision 3 of the WIPO 'Draft Legal Framework and Technical Standard' for electronic patent filings under the international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) has been released for public comment. This revision includes XML DTDs for the E-PCT Standard.
Microsoft tightens reins on software security
By Erich Luening and David Becker – The Microsoft Network Security Hotfix Checker, or Hfnetchk tool, made available on Wednesday, allows business users of the company's software to assess the status of security patches for the Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 operating systems, as well as fixes f
OmniAudit 1.0 Beta Released
OmniAudit allows you to automatically and transparently track changes to any column of any table in your Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 or 2000 databases. Not only capture before and after values for each changed column, but also identify the user making the change, the date and time th
Marquée XML-RPC
This is an implementation of the XML-RPC specification, for Java(TM). Credit should go to Hannes Wallnoefer who maintains another XML-RPC library for Java(TM) from which several ideas have been borrowed when implementing this software. Download the current version (1.1 from June 04, 2001) whi
Xslt Quickly
Book by Bob Ducharme – Geared toward new users of XSLT, this guide is a basic tutorial of the concepts and documentation manipulation techniques necessary for the most common XSLT tasks. Featuring an XSLT cookbook, which provides task-oriented recipes for tackling issues such as converting elements
IBM touts Web services, portal plans
By Paul Krill – IBM Corp. at its Solutions Conference here hailed Web services as a way to deploy new XML-based applications on the Web and integrate legacy applications. The company also detailed a merged portal offering featuring Lotus K-Station and IBM's WebSphere Portal Server.