What Is XML?
In the InformIT XML Reference Guide: Waht is XML? A cousin of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Extensible Markup Language (XML) provides a human-readable, platform-independent way to represent data,...
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In the InformIT XML Reference Guide: DOM and Java Because XML is a platform-independant language, using Java to manipulate it seems a natural choice. In fact, more than one DOM (or more specifically,...
View ArticleRFID and privacy
Imagine you walk past a scanner and it registers unqiue ids for each item of clothing you’re wearing and for each dollar bill in your pocket. Oh, and your driver’s license, which also identifies you...
View Article.NET and XMLReader
In 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...
View ArticleRetrieving DTDs
John wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > I wonder if you could answer a problem I am having > processing an XML file with a Java application. The > XML file is ejb-jar.xml. There is a line referencing a...
View ArticleWhat Bill Gates is thinking
Sarah is always bugging me to come up with an idea for “the next big thing.” (I’ve got a pretty good track record of figuring out what the next trend is, but I never have the time or the funds to...
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My predictions for 2005
I’ve actually got a pretty good track record of seeing trends as they’re coming along, but I’ve never before been forced to actually write my predictions down. This year, all of us InformIT guides took...
View ArticlePay no attention to that man behind the curtain
Some people have a knack for knowing what’s coming next. And some work very, very hard at it. O’Reilly is pretty well regarded in that field, and at OSCON, Tim O’Reilly gave some insight into the...
View ArticleTelling it like it is
Sometimes I think if I didn’t do this for a living, I would just get out of programming altogether. I know it’s not true, because I’m just hooked on it. But I do get pretty disgusted at all of the turf...
View ArticleIf you can’t beat ‘em…
I rant about _blank">stupid patents all the time, but mostly because it’s very rare that I see a controversial patent that I would consider “non-obvious”. Maybe it’s because I think about how to do...
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