Several accounting firms are collaborating on the design of UML models and XML notation for ArapXML, formulated in response to an OMG RFP 'Account Receivable – Account Payable AR/AP Facility. Request For Proposal'. The Project includes research, discussion, documenting use cases and requirem
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XML You Can Touch
What's really hot these days in XML isn't the latest spec, but it's the software that's using XML. Edd Dumbill takes a look at how XML has been adopted in the GNOME desktop platform.
eXportXML
eXportXML is a tool for creating XML documents based on MS Word. The program is aimed at end-users with no XML skills, but who creates content that are needed in XML format, for example for use in media-independent publishing.
Important Information for SQL Server 2000 SP1 Users
Companies and users of SQL Server 2000 Windows® CE Edition (SQL Server CE) that have upgraded SQL Server 2000 database and publisher servers to the Service Pack 1 (SP1) release should also update the server replication components on Internet Information Services (IIS) servers.
xp_ags_crosstab Extended Stored Procedure extending SQL Server abilities
This extended stored procedure will generate crosstab results from standard SQL statements. You now do not have to run OLAP services to generate what Microsoft Access has been able to do for years. See the Online instructions for an example of what xp_ags_crosstab can do.
Randomizing a Recordset
By Edward Myers – Shuffling a recordset so that it can be displayed in random order is very useful when programming dynamic Web pages. A database table containing a list of supported vendors or links to advertisers may need to be displayed in a different order each time so that none complain about a
Rescheduled conference dates
New dates have been issued for several XML-related conferences, rescheduled due to the September attacks on the United States: XML World, XML on Wall Street, and O'Reilly P2P & Web Services conference.
Vitria Introduces Vcml to Standardize Business Collaboration Across the Extended Enterprise
Vitria, a leading integration solutions provider, announced immediate availability of a new business collaboration standard, Value Chain Markup Language(TM) (VCML(TM)). VCML addresses the number one barrier to widespread Web and Internet-based business collaboration within and across industry
Patents, Royalties, and the Future of the Web
by Kendall Grant Clark – As historian David Noble says, technology isn't a "disembodied historical force impinging upon" human affairs. That's never seemed more obvious than it now seems for members of the XML development community, who have been talking lately, not of technic
SQL Server XML View Mapper 1.0
Microsoft® SQL Server View Mapper enables you to produce an XML View schema file that relates an XDR schema to a SQL Server schema. Using this tool and the documentation requires a working knowledge of both XML and database concepts and terminology.