The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration project was launched last September to provide a "yellow pages" of sorts for businesses to publish information about their own services and find services they need from other businesses. The goal of the free business registry is to enab
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XML on Net takes big step forward
By Wylie Wong – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced Tuesday that it has approved a new Web standard, called XML schemas, that make it easier to develop common vocabularies, so companies can communicate and exchange data. XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a Web standard for i
Transferring a SQL Server Diagram
By Brian Knight – So you’ve created a diagram that you now need to transfer to a different server or database. This can be done two ways. The easiest method to transfer your diagram is to do a complete backup and restore onto the destination database. If you don’t have the luxury of performing a
XSLT Debugging – Under the loop
This article is about the debugging of XSL Stylesheets and how to do it with currently available XSL Debuggers. As an intro, Pieter Siegers starts with a short explanation of what XSLT is, and how the XSLT process works. Then we see how that process can be debugged using the Microsoft MSXML parser
Intel To Market E-Biz Performance Management Apps
By Mike Mayor, www.CRMDaily.com Visual Insights has struck a deal with Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC – news) to promote Visual Insights' next-generation e-business performance management software. The announcement came at this week's Intel Solutions Summit in San Diego, California.
XSLT UK 2001
The conference was opened by Norm Walsh from Sun Microsystems, member of the XSL Working Group and maintainer of one of the more complex XSL applications — the DocBook XSL family, which he talked about later in the day. Norm set the scene for the conference, reminding us of the origins of XSLT an
The Route to Scalability
Despite the impressive Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)scores that Microsoft generated by using scale-out technology and SQL Server's federated-databases feature, it's too soon to count out scale-up technology based on SMP systems. Adding more processing power by scaling up
SOAP Soup
Simple Object Access Protocol is one of the neatest XML based technologies to be introduced as of late, yet many people are still trying to get a handle on all of the new terms and acronyms that SOAP has uncovered. This article is written to help you dig through the SOAP soup we have in front of us
Searching an XML File with XSL and ASP
This article is the final installment in a series of articles on manipulating XML data with ASP. Before proceding with this article, I recommend that you read Saving HTML Form Data to XML, Editing XML with XSL and ASP, and Appending to XML with ASP. The first thing that I would recommend before
Tune Up SQL Server Performance
Speed is almost always a concern when working with databases. Many things contribute to your database’s performance: the operating system; hardware considerations, such as memory and disk space; and the design of the applications accessing the database. Your database’s design also plays an importan