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Duplicate and Empty Elements

by Bob DuCharme – Any manipulation of XML documents, whether with XSLT or not, often involves cleaning up the documents. Perhaps some company sends XML data to your company, and while it may be valid XML, it still needs to be beaten into shape a bit before your systems can use it.Dealing wit

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Roots of the REST/SOAP Debate

By Paul Prescod – What problem are web services trying to solve? It sounds like it should be an easy question to answer but web services are seldom described in terms of their problem domain. The general gist of most definitions seems to be “Web Services allow programs written in different languages

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SQL Server string parser

By Alena Willis – This function can be used to filter sets of data with lists (strings) from any kind of application/Web. I personally use the table that is created to make joins with it on one or more datasets for the purpose of filtering. This function is also useful when modified slightly when yo