By Nicholas Chase – General entities enable XML authors to conveniently include not only characters that would be difficult to represent directly, but also information that must be repeated. They also enable you to import information from another file, as well as from another location. This tip show
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XHTML 2.0 surfaces
The W3C has released Working Drafts of XHTML 2.0 and XFrames, as well as a second edition of the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation.
Migrating to Windows from Unix and Linux
As the Windows platform continues to evolve to address changing business computing needs, many organizations currently on UNIX platforms are turning to Windows to run their new client and server business applications. They’re discovering that moving to the Windows platform does not require abandonin
Readers Respond to Software Bug Topic
By Brian Moran – The software-bug accountability debate continues as readers share their responses and suggestions for solving this lack of quality control.
Introduction to SQL-DMO
Most SQL Server administrative tasks are programmable thanks to a set of objects known as SQL-DMO. This article introduces the concepts of programming DMO, and steps you through some basic, and commonly requested examples.
Guaranteeing a single row SELECT
By Kanan Mamedli – Here is how to guarantee that a SELECT is a single row SELECT. This is done in two steps: 1) find out if there is a record satisfied by this condition, and 2) select from the appropriate table or make a cursor variable and then fetch it.
Abstracting Event Context for Reusability
by Claude Duguay – Using a stack to manage context is common in SAX because it saves so much time. Create an event-driven mechanism that abstracts basic SAX events through an XMLEventDispatcher class.
Simple Dom Access Source Code
By David Nishimoto – The Simple DOM Access (SDA) provide a very abstract perspective for interacting with an xml structure. The xml structure only contains elements named “node”. Creating an xml structure with only node elements provides for easy search capabilities when using the selectSingleN
XSLT Processing in .NET
by Joe Feser – This article is meant to help XML developers understand the different ways XSLT transformations can be performed using the .NET framework. It alsos describe how to use various input sources for an XSLT transformation. In .NET, the System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform class is used for transfor
SQL Server 2000 Security Update for Service Pack 2
Microsoft released another security update for SQL Server 2000. This page has been updated with security releases from August 14th, 2002 and August 15th, 2002.