By Yehuda Shiran – You can convert an XML file to HTML on the fly, instead of building DOMDocument objects and running a conversion utility between them. You just load the XML file in your browser, and out will come the desired HTML. In order to do this conversion on the fly, you need to specify the
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XSLT, XPath, and XQuery drafts
The W3C has given developers a huge pile of holiday reading, with first drafts of XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0, as well as a collection of revised query drafts.
Controlling Whitespace, Part Three
by Bob DuCharme – In the first and second parts of this three-part series, we looked at techniques for stripping, processing, and adding whitespace when creating a result document from a source document. This month we'll see how to add tab characters to a result document, and how to automate the
Controlling Whitespace, Part Three
by Bob DuCharme – In the first and second parts of this three-part series, we looked at techniques for stripping, processing, and adding whitespace when creating a result document from a source document. This month we’ll see how to add tab characters to a result document, and how to automate the ind
CLOSING WRAP-UP, December 31
By Jody Osborne, Optionetics.com – Biotech stocks fell sharply after ImClone (IMCL) fell 15.9 percent. The stock stumbled after the FDA didn’t accept the company’s filing for Erbitux, an experimental cancer treatment drug. The Biotechnology Index (^BTK) fell 3.61% on the day. Software shares fell al
XBeans in second release
XBeans.org has issued a second release of XBeans, improving its JavaBean and DOM-based data flows with a GUI customizer tool for making translations between the vocabularies expected by various XBeans.
Oracle to Cut Up to 850 Jobs
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE – Coming off its toughest quarter in a decade, business software giant Oracle Corp. Friday said it will fire up to 850 employees, or 2 percent of its worldwide work force, early next year to help offset sluggish sales.
Yukon Destined as Microsoft’s Common Data Store
By Roger Jennings – The questions: Are Oracle and Microsoft using the same playbook? Are Bill Gates and Larry Ellison reading from the same page? The quick answers: “When pigs fly.” “Never happen.” “You crazy, man.” Not so fast. According to Microsoft’s recently announced plan
XML: Wherever You Go, There You Are
Quite often we associate such words as ‘grand’ and ‘venerable’ with old and outdated; however, in the case of the Ordnance Survey, this is an unequivocally wrong association. We are referring specifically to the OS adoption of the latest data standard which allows geographic information to be
IETF Internet Draft for SPKI-XML Certificate Structure
A posting from Xavier Orri announces the submission of an informational Internet Draft document on "SPKI-XML Certificate Structure." The authors' goal in the document "is to promote a discussion within the XML and SPKI community of the subject of XML encoding of SPKI certificates, to