By Sara Cushman – After working for almost 20 years in the telecommunications industry, in jobs ranging from long-distance operator to secretary to plant manager, Debi Lorraine decided she needed a change.So, at age 36, she quit her job and went back to school. Now 46 years old and a five-ye
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Forum Systems Introduces XML Security Appliance
Forum Systems Inc. unveiled an upgrade of its security appliance for companies building applications that are integrated through XML. The Forum Sentry 1500 Version 2.0 provides secure e-business process integration, protecting data formatted in XML at the content level as it moves within and between
XMLMap on Computing
In this installment we will extend our XMLMap into the computing territory. While XML started out as a format for end user documents, its platform independence and low computing requirements made it move into device and service configurations.
Web-based XML Editing with W3C XML Schema and XSLT
by Ali Mesbah – W3C XML Schema (WXS) is an XML language for describing and constraining the content of XML documents. Using WXS to validate XML instance documents has become a common practice. Using a schema we can also go the other way around: create or edit a valid XML instance document using the
Traverse XML Data Using JavaScript
Learn how to build a JavaScript app that reads data from external XML files, traverses that data, and then displays it in a tree format.
HOWTO: Retrieve XML Data by Using a Template File in an ASP Client
The following sample demonstrates how to run a SQL 2000 template file while specifying an XSL file to transform the XML data. More specifically, a query is issued against SQL Server 2000 by using the command stream of ADO 2.6: This query fetches the XML datastream.
SQL Server Index Fragmentation and Its Resolution
by Randy Dyess – Learn how to optimize the use of your table’s indexes.
Converting from DOM
by Brett McLaughlin – In this tip, you’ll learn how to convert DOM structures to SAX and JDOM to allow communication with applications that do not use DOM. The code listings demonstrate how to convert from DOM to an output stream for use by SAX, and how to convert from DOM to JDOM.
Sun Readies Revamped Java/XML Integration Server
By Elizabeth Montalbano – New software is part of Sun’s Project Orion strategy to “bake” all of its Java middleware into Solaris.
Generating Histograms
By Itzik Ben-Gan – A histogram is a simple means of gathering statistics for analysis. But what’s the best way of generating histograms?