September 2, 2004

Detecting of cycles in graphs using XSLT and XQuery

Interesting post by Michael Kay on detecting cycles in graphs using XSLT and XQuery: > I have XML data in the form of a graph (nodes, edges) and I > need to check if > any cycles exist in the data before I join the data together > in one ...

September 1, 2004

MovableType 3.1 is out

New and long awaited release of the MovableType blogging engine has been announced. New features of MT 3.1 include: Dynamic pages - now it's possible to switch between generation of static pages and dynamic generation. Well, I'm going to stay with static pages anyway. Subcategories Post scheduling Improved extensibility Plugin ...

August 31, 2004

The oldest blog - Edsger W. Dijkstra's manuscripts

Like most of us, Dijkstra always believed it a scientist's duty to maintain a lively correspondence with his scientific colleagues. To a greater extent than most of us, he put that conviction into practice. For over four decades, he mailed copies of his consecutively numbered technical notes, trip reports, insightful ...

August 30, 2004

XQuery book sample chapter

By the way, Chapter 3 "Navigation" of the "XQuery: The XML query language" book by Michael Brundage is available online on Michael's site (PDF version). Take a look at http://www.qbrundage.com/xquery/toc.html. ...

Yasser Shohoud's "Real World XML Web Services" book online

Yasser Shohoud's great "Real World XML Web Services" book is available online at http://www.learnxmlws.com/book. [Via Yasser himself.] ...

August 29, 2004

Kurt Cagle is blogging

Kurt Cagle is blogging. Unfortunately it's Atom only blog (via Google's Blogger) and my RSS Bandit 1.2.0.114 (SP1 RC1) doesn't seem to understand it. Grrrrrr, how does thay say it - "Don't be evil" and "Google's mission: Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."? Rubbish! When ...

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 type hierarchy chart

Print this and stick near to your monitor: XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 type hierarchy chart ...