The second edition of Bob Stayton’s DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide, covering “all aspects of DocBook XML publishing tools, including installing, using, and customizing the XSL stylesheets and processing tools”, is now available in paperback book form.
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Get the most from ContentHandlers
by Brett McLaughlin – This tip breaks down each method in the org.xml.sax.ContentHandler interface, explaining the purpose and usage of each callback, and its relation to an XML parsing event. You will understand the arguments to each method, and the information passed from a SAX parser to its regis
Years of Testing Proves SharePlex®for Oracle Effective for the UK’s Roadside Service Agency, "RAC"
Royal Auto Club (RAC), serving millions of motorists per year throughout the UK, operates under one of the most stringent service levels possible – they must respond to stranded motorists within a pre-determined time of the driver’s distress call. Since 1998, Quest Software’s SharePlex® for Oracle h
Generating Code for Fast Copying
by Norman Spector – Here is a script which will dynamically generate code for fast copying of tables to another database or another account. It very useful for fast scalable refresh of presentation tables in data warehousing projects, where production tables are very bulky.
IBM previews DB2 upgrade
IBM will unveil enhancements to the next version of the DB2 database which are to help simplify development of applications for the Microsoft .net platform at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2003 in Los Angeles.
Installation Problem Determination
The objective of this tutorial is to guide you through common types of problems during DB2 installation and FixPak upgrades and how to solve such problems.
Get Powerful Database Results With Recursion in T-SQL
Recursive techniques in stored procedures in T-SQL offer you a powerful way to analyze your database and return results from queries. See how in this article from SQL Server Professional Magazine.
Microsoft: Yukon, WinFS Should Tame Storage, Search Woes
By Barbara Darrow – Microsoft’s Yukon got its moment in the spotlight at the company’s Professional Developers Conference with public demonstrations of the product’s built-in development and debugging capabilities. In addition to previously reported perks, such as built-in reporting services
Analyzers urged to monitor XML traffic
By Eric B. Parizo – Protocol analysis expert Laura Chappell offers her thoughts on common network security mistakes, XML traffic monitoring and the merits of teaching “black hat” techniques.
New XML Features in .NET Version 2
Version 1.1 of the .NET framework supports today’s mainstream XML technologies including DTDs, XML Schema, XSLT, XPath, SOAP 1.1, DOM Level 2, and XML namespaces. While version 2 of the framework continues to support these technologies (and newer versions where appropriate), it also contains integra