(Coach Wei) XML is a simple, flexible text format initially designed for large-scale electronic publishing. It is flexible, open, and human-readable, and can be learned easily. XML can also be generated, parsed, analyzed, and transformed easily. It’s no wonder that XML has been widely used for serve
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Growing Interest in XML Seen at AIIM Conference on Content and Records Management
(Dale Waldt) The Association for Applied Interactive Multimedia (AIIM) CMS conference and exposition was held in conjunction with the OnDemand conference from March 8 to 10 in New York City. Record attendance at both the exposition and the conference itself was reported by organizers, AIIM Internati
Multilingual Applications in .NET – Part I
(Pradeep K. V.) This article explains the basic understanding on different methods of developing multilingual applications in .NET. Here emphasis is given on handling multiple languages using resource files. This also explains the necessary settings to be made in the Windows operating system and SQL
MDX in Analysis Services: Named Sets in MDX: An Introduction
(William Pearson) With this lesson, we will begin an examination of named sets, from the perspective the MDX query language. We obtained brief exposure to the concept of named sets earlier in the series (Using Sets in MDX Queries), touching upon them from the perspective of the MSAS Analysis Manager
Review of Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual
(James Travis) First let me say the book in my opinion is more for some who has almost no experience with SQL Server 2000 or Visual Basic .NET. It seemed like 704 pages of rehashed material from SQL BOL and MSDN library more than anything. The book was very repetitive of a number of the concepts and
Back Up a DB2 Database using Tivoli Storage Manager
(Marin Komadina) This article examines the procedure for making a database backup using Tivoli Storage Manager, (TSM).
Optimize Your UNDO Parameters
(Marco Gilbert) When you are working with UNDO (instead of ROLLBACK) there are two important things to consider: 1.) the size of the UNDO tablespace, and 2.) the UNDO_RETENTION parameter.
Tip: Use a proxy network library for SOAP behind a firewall
(Uche Ogbuji) If you are trying to access a SOAP service from behind a firewall and your SOAP library does not have support for proxying network connections, you may not be able to get through by direct request. In such cases, you can use socket redirection programs to make the connection through a
PHP and ASP.NET Go Head-to-Head
(Sean Hull) When it comes to Web development these days, you have a lot of options. Many of these methods involve preprocessing—that is, embedding code into HTML pages with special tags that signal to a preprocessor that they contain code, and that it should do something with it. Much like a CGI, th
Layering XSLT stylesheets
(Chuck White) In this third tutorial in a multi-part series on the benefits of using XSLT, the MindMap Team discovers the need to perform some analyses that require procedural techniques. Because XSLT is not a procedural language, this tutorial explains how to layer and use chain transformations to