By Fabian Pascal – In my article Managing data with XML: Forward to the past? in this series, I questioned the use of XML for data management. I received a critical reaction from Rick Jelliffe, who claims to be a contributor to XML. Following a brief email exchange, I wrote a three-part article as a
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Applications Everywhere: A WML Primer
by Wei Meng Lee – Developers interested in programming for wireless devices such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants must use the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). To develop WAP applications, Wireless Markup Language (WML), which is based on XML, is designed to display content on mo
Namespace Nuances
by John E. Simpson – Q: I can't validate a document using namespaces, can I? I'm trying to validate an XML file. It uses XML namespaces, but I can't figure out how to express them inside the DTD. Here's a sample XML document:
ASP SQL Server Query Analyzer
This SQL Server Query Analyzer is intended to be the front page of next generation of Buildapp, which I hope to develop if time permits. As with the original Buildapp, everything is as automatic as possible, with as much useful information for developing your queries only a click or two away.
Introduction to SQL
A free course of study at Free-Ed.Net. This is a complete course of study for SQL (sequential query language). Typical completion time for the course is about 12 weeks.
Understanding and Calculating Dates
By Joe Lax – SQL Server provides many sophisticated functions to calculate dates. But knowing how to use them can often be a challenge. Suppose you want to calculate when a package is due to arrive based on the shipping date and the type of shipping chosen. Because many shipment types don't incl
Binary Data to Go: Using XML-RPC to Serve Up Charts on the Fly
by Joe Johnston – XML-RPC is a protocol that allows programs of different languages on different machines to easily talk to each other. By sending a well-defined XML document over unadorned HTTP, a client program can make a remote procedure call to a server. The server processes the request and wrap
Managing data with XML: Forward to the past?
By Fabian Pascal – The inventors of XML, Jon Bosak and Tim Gray, described in a Scientific American article the problem that their invention was intended to solve. What the authors are talking about here is nothing but database management. And, in fact, telling "what things are, how they
GNOME XSLT library released
Daniel Veillard, the maintainer of libxslt, the GNOME XSLT library, has announced its first stable release, version 1.0.0.
Aggregate Functions in SQL
Fortunately, SQL provides aggregate functions to assist with the summarization of large volumes of data. In this three-segment article, we'll look at functions that allow us to add and average data, count records meeting specific criteria and find the largest and smallest values in a table.