by John E. Simpson – February's XML Q&A column answers questions about making links with XSLT and doing without entities in XML Schemas.
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O'Reilly publish SAX2 book
SAX2, by David Brownell, has been published by O'Reilly and Associates. This is a compact book (240 pages) on using SAX2 for XML processing in Java applications.
Another way to initialize variables in SQL*PLUS
By Robert Jones – Everyone has some way to inititalize variables in SQL*PLUS. My favorite is to use the “col” directive with “new_val” option. This approach does not require a spoolfile making it somewhat easier to use in SQL*PLUS coding choirs.
Modifying Default Attributes
This tip comes from Robert Ware – This script generates DDL to modify the default tablespace name for partitioned indexes. However, it could be easily modified to alter other segment types as well.
Internet Registry Information Service
By Andrew L. Newton – This document describes an application layer client-server protocol for a framework of representing the query and result operations of the information services of Internet registries. Specified in XML, the protocol defines generic query and result operations and a mechanism fo
Leave a Message with XSLT
by Kurt Cagle – Because of their central role in building communities online, message boards should be stock items for any Web developer. Learn to build an XSLT server and to rapidly add databases to Web sites.
Encryption, Decryption reach Candidate Recommendation
The W3C has released XML Encryption Syntax and Processing and Decryption Transform for XML Signature as Candidate Recommendations, as well as a new XML Encryption Requirements Note.
Oracle questions answered
By Richard Perron – Here are answers to several Oracle questions leftover from our Ask the Experts feature. Rick is an Oracle DBA here at TechTarget.
Did You Know? — March 2002
Check out Hervé Deschamps’ Did You Know? — March 2002 – Designer 6i, SQL, Oracle Installer Pentium 4.
Flash XML Studio Lab
This page provides links to three chapters from Flash XML Studio Lab, a friends of ED book by Ian Tindale, James Rowley and Paul McDonald. The book is aimed at Macromedia Flash developers familiar with ActionScript but new to using XML with Flash.