JUNOScript is an XML-based API for managing devices. It allows access to both operational and configuration data using a simple RPC mechanism. Sessions can be established using a variety of connection-oriented access methods. This document describes the framing protocol, message c
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Namespaces 1.1 in Last Call
The W3C has released a new Last Call Working Draft of Namespaces in XML 1.1.
Controlling the DOCTYPE and XML Declaration
by Bob DuCharme – XSLT processors usually create result documents that are well-formed XML with a simple XML declaration at the top. They don’t have to add that XML declaration, though; it’s easy to suppress it. It’s also easy to add one and control exactly what it shows, such as an encoding declara
Shaken and Stirred
By Michael Otey – A shake-up in the database market has yielded a new database champ in terms of new license revenue: IBM. But on the fast-growing Windows platform, SQL Server claims the number-one spot and shows no signs of slowing.
XML, Part 3: XSLT Stylesheets
By Heath Stewart – This tutorial will cover basic transformations using XSLT to produce HTML. XSLT can do way too much, however, to cover everything in this tutorial.
Installing Oracle8i on Red Hat Linux 7.1 / 7.2
by Jeff Hunter – The following article is a summary of the steps required to successfully install the Oracle 8i (8.1.7) database on Redhat Linux 7.1 and 7.2.
Security Overhaul to Postpone SQL Server
By Matt Hicks – Built-in security development is at the heart of a delay of a major Microsoft Corp. database upgrade.An upgrade to SQL Server, code-named Yukon, will be delayed from late this year to early next year, said company officials here last week, to build more security features into
The new OLAP APIs
by George Spofford – Historically data mining and online analytic processing (OLAP) have been solely human activities. In other words, it is humans who specify analytic models, build them, and then consume the results. But with the emergence of the Web services computing model, which involves the cr
Tip: Work with schemas and namespaces
By Brett McLaughlin – This tip explains how the XML Schema specification requires one XML Schema per namespace, and shows you how to include more than one schema for a document and how to reference one schema from another.
Users Cast Wary Eye at Web Services
By CAROL SLIWA – IT professionals on an exploratory mission at XML Web Services One conference expressed keen interest in testing out new technologies to address some of their most painful application integration headaches. But their interest was tempered by a variety of concerns, including i