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Transforming a Complex Document
(Jennifer Kyrnin) Last week we discussed the basics of XSLT. You saw that with a simple text document and an XSLT processor you could convert an XML document into HTML. But that was a really basic document. Most XML documents have much more than one entity. They often have multiple nested entities a
End-to-end federated trusted contexts in WebSphere Federation Server V9.5
(Priya Baliga and Eileen Lin) End-to-end federated trusted contexts is a new feature set to debut in IBM WebSphere Federation Server V9.5. This feature alleviates the security concerns associated with multi-tier models by propagating end-user identities through all tiers of the application model wit
DITA: Does One Size Fit All?
(Bob Doyle) Back in June 2006 I wrote an XML Editors review article for EContent that covered a dozen desktop and web-based authoring tools for XML. That article was a bit too hard on both the writer and editorial staff, so we’re not likely to do it again soon.
Java vs Ruby: a Comparison of the Key Elements
(Deepak Vohra) Ruby is an interpreted scripting language, whereas Java is a compiled programming language. Ruby is similar to Java in that both are object-oriented languages and are strongly typed. But, Ruby is dynamically typed, whereas Java is statically typed. In Ruby, type declarations are not u
T-SQL Pointer: Beware Of The ‘IDENTITY’ Crisis
(George P. Alexander Jr.) I bet you might have used the @@IDENTITY keyword somewhere in your programming life – basically as a way to retrieve the last generated IDENTITY value from the Database.
Using XML in MySQL 5.1 and 6.0
(Jon Stephens) In this article, we discuss the XML functionality available in MySQL, with an emphasis on new features coming online in MySQL 5.1 and MySQL 6.0. We assume that you already have a working knowledge of XML, and that you know what the terms “valid” and “well-formed” mean. We also assume
Locking for Reads and Writes in C#.NET
(Jeff Cogswell) I’m always surprised when I find open source and even commercial libraries where the authors have a note in the readme or web page that says something like, “The next version will add multi-threaded support.” Many of these libraries are intended for ASP.NET, and having no multi-threa
Compression in 11g vs. DB2 9
(Chris Eaton) I’ve been asked by several people lately about the new compression capability in Oracle 11g and if DB2 has lost any competitive advantage. I hope some Oracle folks that read my blog will jump in here and correct me if I’m wrong but here is what I see.