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More on Time!

By antony.reynolds on May 12, 2008 4:51 PM

More on Time!Seems that dateTime is one of the most frustrating types in XML.  I just had a colleague ask how to convert a string to an XML dateTime type.  There are a rich range of functions to convert dateTimes...

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Pairing Off in XSLT

By antony.reynolds on April 8, 2008 7:38 AM

Pairing Off in XSLTMy friend Newton was just fighting to transform some XML that was structured in a awkward way.  The machine generated XML he was working with basically paired off successive elements, for example to provide a credential prompt...

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Stringing Together XML

By antony.reynolds on March 7, 2008 10:16 AM

Stringing Together XMLSomeone just asked how to convert a string into XML.  A common use case is to retrieve XML stored as a string in the database.  Although you could argue that it would be better to store XML using...

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What's the Time Mr BPEL?

By antony.reynolds on July 19, 2007 12:07 PM

What's the Time Mr BPEL?Seems that often in BPEL you have a process that has some sort of time dependency.  Examples are :Response must be given in 5 days.Product must be shipped to arrive by 12 October 2007.How old will...

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Extending XPath

By antony.reynolds on July 18, 2007 5:35 PM

Extending XPathOf late I have run come across the need to extend the built in functionality of XPath.  Occasionally you come across transformations or calculations that can't be done in XPath.  For example I have found it tricky to calculate...

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