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Entities and XSLT

by Bob DuCharme In XML, entities are named units of storage. Their names are assigned and associated with storage units in a DTD's entity declarations. These units may be internal entities, whose contents are specified as a string in the entity declaration itself, or they may be external en

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Extensions to XSLT

by Leigh Dodds 2001 is certainly turning into an eventful year for the XML community. The new year began with the community-led development of RDDL (see Old Ghosts: XML Namespaces), and the past month has seen a lot of heated debate over the future directions of many core W3C specifications, in

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Dynamic Cross-Tabs/Pivot Tables

IMHO, the best feature of MS Access is the TRANSFORM statement, used to create cross-tabs/pivot tables. It does all of the work of dynamically generating the cross-tabulation and the summary calculations. T-SQL unfortunately doesn't have this statement, so you're stuck using complicated SQL