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February 2004

DOM and Perl

0In the InformIT XML Reference Guide: DOM and Perl Perl was originally designed as a lnaguage for sorting through text, so it’s not surprising that it is a good fit for XML. In fact, there are multiple ways to handle XML using Perl, so in this section we’re going to look at manipulating DOM “objects” [...]

Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books

0Lately I’ve been giving serious thought to releasing a free eBook version of XML Primer Plus, so this paper by Cory Doctorow on the true nature of eBooks caught my attention. Plus, he’s released the paper under a Creative Commons license, so in the interest of making his words even more immortal, I’m going to [...]

Cringely’s predictions

0Robert Cringely was right on 12 of his 15 predictions for 2003, and now offers his predictions for 2004.

Integrating applications with Web services using WebSphere Studio V5.1.1

0Now updated on developerWorks: Integrating applications with Web services using WebSphere Studio V5.1.1: “This tutorial looks at making your application Web-services ready using WebSphere Studio’s tools to wrap an existing application as a Web service, announce it using a UDDI directory, and to discover and use Web services within your applications. It also looks at [...]

Blogfuel

0Here’s an interesting little tool. I find it a bit of a pain to have to log in to Amazon’s Associate’s Central when I want to build a link. BlogFuel generates a JavaScript you can use to automatically add search results to a page. Maybe I’ll add a “what I’m reading” list to CM. Hm.

.NET and XMLReader

0In the InformIT XML Reference Guide: .NET and XMLReader In the world of XML, it’s natural to think of XML in terms of two contexts: DOM and SAX. DOM is flexible, in that it provides the ability to navigate around the document tree and make changes, but SAX is fast, in that it doesn’t load [...]