Rick Jelliffe has posted a proposal for The Hook, an experimental terse schema language using a single element which allows checking the relatives and content of each XML node.
Community
The Politics of Schemas: Part 2
By Kendall Grant Clark. In the first part of this essay, I argued that the Semantic Web will be political because schemas, one of its foundational parts, are essentially political. I claimed schemas are political if they reflect the interests of the institutions that produce them, and they formalize
SQL Server 2000 is the FIRST application to be Windows 2000 Datacenter Certified
SQL Server 2000 is the first application to be Windows 2000 Datacenter Server certified. Certification was completed by VeriTest, an independent testing and compliance laboratory that is a service of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. The certification of SQL Server 2000 demonstrates Microsoft's comm
SQL for Threaded Discussion Forums
From SQL Team.com, One of questions we get on a regular basis involves threaded discussion forums. Everyone wants to know an easy way to do this. Everyone is also trying to do recursive SQL or self joins to make this work. That's hard. Here's an easy way to do this.
Setting and Using Variables and Parameters
In this article Bob DuCharme tells us about how a variable in XSLT has more in common with a variable in algebra than with a variable in a typical programming language. It's a name that represents a value and, within a particular application of a template, it will never represent any other value
Inside XML
A thorough guide is imperative to success because you will need to know and understand the full scope of XML from day one in order to work with it successfully. With your time constraints and impossible project schedules, you need a comprehensive guide that fulfills your needs in one complete book.
Common User Agent Problems
This document explains some common mistakes in user agents due to incorrect or incomplete implementation of specifications, and suggests remedies. It also suggests some "good behavior" where specifications themselves do not specify any particular behavior (e.g., in the face of error conditio
Whistler Beta 2 to Go Public
According to a report in CRN, Microsoft will ship Whistler Beta 2 in February, and a public beta of the OS "in 60 to 90 days." The report, which remains unconfirmed by Microsoft, refers to Whistler as "Windows 2000 version 2" and it's follow-up, known as Blackcomb, as "Window
Using COALESCE to Build Comma-Delimited String
This article, by Garth at SQL Team, talks about building a comma-separated value string for use in HTML SELECT tags. It's also handy anytime you need to turn multiple records into a CSV field. It's a little longer and has some HTML but a good read.
W3C Workshop on Web Services
From its early days, Web technologies have been used to provide an interface to distributed services (e.g., HTML forms calling CGI scripts). The advent of XML has accelerated this development, and has sparked the emergence of numerous XML-based environments that enable Web services. These environmen