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Building XML Portals with Cocoon

by Carsten Ziegeler, Matthew Langham – In this article we will look at the Cocoon portal and authentication frameworks, and we assume that the reader is familiar with the basic Cocoon concepts, such as the sitemap. You can find an introduction to Cocoon in a recent XML.com article by Steve Punte.

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Overcoming OpenXML hangups

By Rich Rollman – If you’re writing an application that uses XML as a data-interchange format, you need a way to extract the data from the XML document and store that data in your database. T-SQL’s OpenXML keyword is a convenient way to insert, delete, and update data in SQL Server 2000. OpenXML cre

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Hiding the Oracle password

By Rochus Mission – When you have more than one Oracle database, you may be required to supply the name of which database you want to log on to. If you are using SQL*PLus, for instance, you will need to provide three login parameters (username, password, and db_name) on the same line.