This is kind of an interesting question that I had some fun with. The answer is yes you can store your XSL stylesheet in a stored procedure. This may have some value in that you can manage both your XML output and your XSL stylesheets in one place. This first example is more of an interesting me

(Peter Mikhalenko) The W3C Multimodal Interaction Activity is developing specifications as a basis for a new breed of Web application with multiple modes of interaction. Consider applications which use speech, hand writing, and key presses for input, and spoken prompts, audio and visual displays for

(Lance Robinson) This users guide will go through some of the basic steps that one might take in order send an HTTP request to a SQL Server. The request will instruct the SQL server to return XML, which we will parse and display neatly in a grid.

Sometimes it is easier to use FOR XML AUTO to retrieve XML from SQL Server than it is to use FOR XML EXPLICIT. However, if you’re combining data from multiple tables you may not get results you expect using the AUTO mode. Suppose that we want to get a list of the products in our database, but we

(Dennis Pedersen, Karsten Riis and Torben Bach Pedersen) In this paper we present novel techniques for query optimization in federations of OLAP and XML databases. The techniques include so-called inlining of XML data in OLAP predicates, caching, and pre-fetching. Experiments show that the proposed

(Ronald Bourret) In this Web page, I have tried to capture the current state of the market for XML database products. These are gathered from Web sites, product reviews, XML webzines, XML resource guides, and email from product users and developers.

(Eric van der Vlist) I am on my way back from XML 2003 and it’s time for me to draw the conclusions from this event which, year after year, remains the major conference of the markup community. For this year’s conference has been dominated by schema languages, but I am so biased that this probably d

The Notation object identifies by name the format of unparsed entities, the format of elements with a notation attribute, or the application to which a processing instruction is addressed. The name of the notation is contained in the inherited nodeName property. A Notation is read-only.

(Shawn Morton) As its name suggests, XHTML—which is considered the successor to HTML 4—is a combination of HTML and XML. By combining the power of XML and HTML, XHTML makes Web content more accessible to devices such as phones, handhelds, and televisions. XHTML 1.0 is broken up into what the W3C ref

(Mahesh Chand) XAML becoming a new HOT wave in Microsoft Windows Longhorn programming model. XAML syntactically inherited from XML is a scripting programming language used to write applications that covers both Windows and Web worlds. Microsoft is well-known and a proven expert in evolving new t