Steven Pemberton recently announced on the public XForms mailing list the results of a gathering of XForms implementers, representing over 20 ongoing implementations of XForms.
Other News
Generate .NET Code With XSLT
by Kathleen Dollard – Find out how to use Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations to auto-generate classes that provide strongly typed access based on your database’s XML Schema Definition.
Cleaning Up SOAP’s Act
For SOAP to be enterprise-worthy, security must be an integral part of the Web services standard.
SQL Server Application and Transact-SQL Performance Checklist
by Brad M. McGehee – This is part eight of the series on how to perform a SQL Server performance audit. In this installment, you will learn how to perform a performance audit on Transact-SQL and application code that interacts with SQL Server.
Free SQL Server 2000 Security Web Seminar
Join Scalability Experts for a FREE online one-hour Web Seminar titled, “SQL Server 2000 Security,” Wednesday, April 16 at 11:00am (ET), brought to you by SQL Server Magazine University (SSMU) e-Learning Center. Learn how to leverage the security features of SQL Server 2000 to build intelligent, fle
Database Heavyweights Weigh In on XML Standard
By Lisa Vaas – Relational database heavyweights are pushing the XQuery standard for querying XML documents, with IBM and Microsoft Corp. expected to present a test suite for the standard to the W3C on Friday, and Oracle Corp. recently having posted a prototype of the standard on its site.
Oracle 9i Release 2 Developments for PL/SQL Collections
Steven Feuerstein and Bryn Llewellyn explore the extended flexibility of the collection syntax, storage, and access in Oracle 9i Release 2, which makes it possible to write simpler, more efficient code. Steven is a coauthor of Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition.
Oracle and Dell cosy up on open standards enterprise offering
Oracle and Dell cosied up to one another in New York this week to pitch their deal to sell clustered server systems to enteprise customers using an open standards philosophy. Dell’s strategy is to sell servers primarily using two to four processors that can be combined, or clustered, to boost
XMill 0.8, a user-configurable XML compressor
from Uche Ogbuji – XMill separates structure, layout and data in an XML document and distributes data elements into separate data streams (int, char, string, base64, etc), which are then compressed using gzip, bzip2 or ppmdi.
XMLBeans
by Hitesh Seth – Recently, BEA released a beta of XMLBeans, an XML token stream-based technology that provides easy navigation of XML documents using a combination of interfaces – Java types (which have been mapped to the relevant XML Schema-based types) and native XML cursor- or XQuery-based access