by Edd Dumbill – Signs of reality were setting in this week at XML DevCon 2001 in New York City. As vendors and professionals were feeling the pinch of the economic conditions, the cloud of dust raised by recent overmarketing was starting to settle.
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JXUnit: Building Suites of Test Data with XML
Data-Centric Testing: Advantage of Separating Test Data from Test Code.Test data plays a central role in testing. From the lowest level (method tests) to the highest (acceptance tests), a test involves input data, expected output data, and a comparison between the expected and actual output data
XML Black Book 2nd Edition
By Natanya Pitts The eagerly awaited second edition of the XML Black Book focuses on real-world implementations that include XML. It also covers the latest versions of the XML specification and related specifications such as XSL, CSS, XLink, XPath, and more. Written to improve your productivity
Why You Need the Microsoft Technology Week Conference in a Box
By Brian Moran – Several weeks ago, I encouraged you to check out the Microsoft Technology Week Conference in a Box DVD-ROM. Microsoft advertised that this resource was available for purchase by anyone holding an active Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) certification. Unfortunately, by the time
Adding Records with SQL in ASP+
by Sean Vaccariello – In Part 1 of my series I will show you how to add records to a SQL database in ASP+. I will assume that you have or have access to SQL Server 7/2000, and know how to make databases, tables, and columns.
TREX Basics
by J. David Eisenberg – In this article, we'll explore the TREX markup language for validating XML documents, focusing on validating a subset of XMLNews-Story Markup Language. Although the XMLNews-Story markup language has been superseded by the News Industry Text Format, we use the old version
RDF Calendaring list gets underway
A new W3C mailing list has been created for those interested in the use of RDF in calendaring and scheduling scenarios. The list has been created in response to the widespread interest and embryonic work on calendaring in the RDF community. Announcing the list, Dan Brickley described its
SOAP Interoperability with Microsoft and Apache Toolkits – A step by step guide
SOAP Interoperability – a recent very hot topic on various SOAP mailing/discussion lists, is really an interesting area to focus on. A previous article was a brief introduction to write Web services with SOAP, and we wrote a simple Hello SOAP Web service. There are atleast forty toolkits available t
FoxTeach/SQLTeach
The Universal Thread reporting team has released the official coverage of the FoxTeach/SQLTeach conference which was being held in Toronto, ON this weekend. The conference focused on Visual FoxPro and SQL Server. Top topics at the conference were about the Microsoft .NET framework, the upcoming
Me Too.NET
Editorial by Michael Otey – As the saying goes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Microsoft must be blushing a lot these days. No sooner did Oracle and Sun Microsystems finish lambasting Microsoft's new .NET Framework than each company launched its own Internet application platform—ea