This article provides a set of solid guidelines about what you should do and what you shouldn’t do when working with W3C XML Schema.
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The Crux of SOAP Encryption
by Dan Wahlin – You can use .Net classes to create a custom Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) encryption application to protect sensitive information sent from a client to a Web service. The application relies on public and private keys for the encryption and decryption of SOAP messages. It also
Are PIs deprecated?
Jeni Tennison reopens the debate about Processing Instructions (PIs) on xml-dev by proposing to define guidelines for using them.
Tip: SAX and document order — tracking parent-child relationships
The tips in this series explore the concept of document order and the use of so-called document order indices in SAX. This tip looks at the use of DOIs in modeling parent-child relationships in XML documents. Such DOI representations of document hierarchy are useful in building applications, such as
Extending XMLMap: XML for Presentation Purposes
In this installment we will extend our XMLMap with XML standards for documents, particularly those concerned with presenting information to users. While the main difference between XML and HTML is that XML contains no presentation information, one of the first applications of XML was in the presenta
Managing Enumerations in W3C XML Schemas
by Anthony Coates – When working with data-oriented XML, there is often a requirement to handle “controlled vocabularies”, otherwise known as enumerated values. Consider the following example of a bank account summary:
Definitive Datafile Data Report
by Jonathan Reinharz – The following script quickly and, more importantly, efficiently provides both tablespace status and structural data. Datafiles are grouped by tablespace and ordered by the percentage of free space in them. Output is made clearer with the use of literals (%, MB).
Performance of BI Systems Built with Microsoft SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence
Learn about performance experiments conducted on a business intelligence (BI) system built with Microsoft SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence (BI Accelerator). Based on the results of these experiments, recommendations are made for the operation of similar systems.
Slammer Worm: A Blow to Remote Storage?
David Morgenstern looks at the SQL Slammer worm and sees a threat to the storage industry. Will the latest Internet disruption snap consumer patience with remote-storage schemes?
Oracle Sets Up Supplier Advisory Board
By Renee Boucher Ferguson – Oracle Corp. on Tuesday announced the formation of its Supplier Advisory Board, a body created to help improve supplier relationship management processes in line with evolving business requirements.