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Introduction to XML Technologies

(Michael Palermo) In this chapter, we’ll look at current and upcoming Extensible Markup Language (XML). We’ll begin by describing what XML is and then talk about where it can help us, some related standards, and focus on some important design considerations when writing an XML application.

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Announcing the New MODEL

(Jonathan Gennick) You’re writing a query that returns computed column values. As input to your calculations, you need values from multiple rows. What do you do? This is actually a fairly common problem. Solutions to it often involve inscrutable combinations of self-joins and subqueries. Oracle

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Building a Security Infrastructure

(Rich Salz) In my previous column I offered a rationale for XKMS as an important web service, and I looked at reducing the problem of implementing such a service to a reasonable size. This time we’ll build the infrastructure necessary to develop and deploy an XKMS registration server that can issue

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Atom Authentication

(Mark Pilgrim) I wish I didn’t need to write this article. My life would be much simpler if Atom could just use existing HTTP authentication, as-is. But it can’t; I’m going to tell you why and then I’m going to tell you what we’re doing instead. Let’s back up. Atom, in case you missed it, is a ne