The Web has been constantly evolving since it appeared about a decade ago. The days of plain text web sites are largely gone now and, among other things, vector graphics have become an increasingly common part of web pages. SWF, better known as the format used by Macromedia Flash, has become the med
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Basic XML and RDF techniques for knowledge management
This column, the third in a series, shows how to add semantic knowledge to an RDF application by incorporating WordNet synonym sets. With the added knowledge of the WordNet lexical database, you can search a set of RDF data for related concepts, not just one keyword at a time. As the demonstration i
XML Application Development with MSXML 4.0
MSXML (Microsoft XML Core Services) version 4.0 is a free, feature-rich server component for all types of XML processing, including XML, XSLT, and Schemas. It has comprehensive support for W3C and other major specifications, as well as many proprietary enhancements. This makes MSXML 4.0 a useful and
WebContent Validation with XML::Schematron
by Kip Hampton – Kip Hampton explains how to use his XML::Schematron module to validate XML Web content with Perl.
Loading LOBs into Oracle using SQL*Loader
Assume, you want to load an enormous amount of photos (image files) into an Oracle database, then SQL*Loader can do this easily for you. SQL*Loader is the tool to load the entire content of an operating system file into one LOB column. Image files, that you are loading with SQL*Loader are referred t
Who is logged into the database?
By Jim Giordano – Here is a shell script that will list all the Oracle users that are logged in to all databases on your HP-UX machine.
Oracle to end support for 10.7 business apps
By Joris Evers – ORACLE will end support for its Version 10.7 business applications suite in June of next year, despite customer requests for another extension, an Oracle executive said.
XML for Data: Modeling many-to-many relationships
In this column, Kevin Williams takes a look at some options for modeling many-to-many relationships in XML. Several different techniques, and the advantages and disadvantages of each, are discussed. Examples are provided in XML.
OASIS Invites Submissions for XSLT/XPath Conformance Test Suite
The XSLT/XPath technical subcommittee will deliver a test suite for XSLT/XPath processors. The test suite will focus on two key areas. The first one, XSLT (XSL Transformation) deals with applying a set of style sheets transformation rules to the data and transform the data into another document.
Relax NG, Compared
by Eric van der Vlist – This article is a companion to two different works already published on XML.com: my introduction to W3C XML Schema is a tutorial introducing the language's main features, with a progression which I hope is intuitive; and my comparison between the main schema languages, an