Database connection strings are an important part of any data-enabled application. Because developers typically have development and production connection strings to manage (depending upon the environment they are working in), many different strategies have been created to handle switching from deve

As more and more Web sites begin using XML for their content, it’s increasingly important for Web developers to know how to parse XML data and convert it into different formats. There used to be two ways of doing this: setting up callback handlers that get invoked when a particular element type is r

The position() and last() XPath functions are ignored when you use them directly as XSLT function (standard, script, and extension function) arguments in XPath query expressions that are used in XSLT style sheets.

(Jeff Web) With names like SOAP and REST, you’d expect a couple cute jokes here. Perish the thought; I promised code in my last post and code you shall have. The VB/VBA tools and samples from Microsoft demonstrate calling web services through SOAP interfaces. For example, the Office Web Services

(Eli Leiba) This article describes how to traverse a simple XML file that has only 2 attributes (name and value, like a dictionary). And get the results in a single column in SQL SERVER result set. (R)

(Erik Hennum, Don Day, John Hunt and Dave A. Schell) The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) provides maps for assembling topics into deliverables. By specializing the map elements, you can define a formal information architecture for your deliverables. This architecture provides guida

(Frank Rice) Microsoft Office 2003 adds a number of significant features for working with XML data. This article explores the XML-related objects, methods, and properties for Microsoft Office Access 2003. Detailed information on these new members is provided as well as code samples illustrating thei

(Brian Benz) According to an August 2003 IDC report, the XML server market grew 163.8% between 2000 and 2003. IDC also estimates that the market for XML servers, which includes XML-enabled databases, native XML database servers, XML application servers and XML content servers, will exceed $3.5 billi

(Thiru Thangarathinam) XML data is generally used to represent semi-structured or hierarchal data. Using XML documents as your data source allows you to receive XML documents from other sources and format the XML data to be compatible with your application. ASP.NET 1.0 let you use XML data sources,

(Steve Mallett) Tim O’Reilly has written and spoken often on what he coins “The Open Source Paradigm Shift”. I’ve heard Tim give this speech a few times, and read it a few to boot. The one major point that sticks with me is that the software we “use” is no longer just on your desktop/laptop, but