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I'm not allowed to discuss Gove in the house. It's the same as when Brown was in power, if I say what I think about him then Mrs Wife has trouble talking politely to them. I was very proud of her last week, early morning through to a late dinner spent with The Great Victator and Camaroon, and she didn't drop a single C bomb or punch either of them; I call that restrained.
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: The Great Victator and Camaroon, and she didn't drop a single C bomb or punch either of them; I call that restrained.
I call it a missed opportunity.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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She's paid to be nice to these doofuses, so it's best she doesn't slip batch them.
speramus in juniperus
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Give me a few weeks, I'm sure I can get a consortium together to outbid.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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ChrisElston wrote: Give me a few weeks, I'm sure I can get a consortium together to outbid.
That long... surely not!
Rhys
"If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the Universe"
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I've worked with me before, there'll be ta least 10 days procrastination.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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OriginalGriff wrote: Obama
sounds familiar... 
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No, forgot to add, American's are excused from having any knowledge of anyone outside their immediate family.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I wouldn't group all American's with me. I don't watch the news. It's too depressing and I have more important things to do.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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ChrisElston wrote: American's are excused from having any knowledge of anyone outside their immediate family.
Carnal?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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ChrisElston wrote: Education Secretary
So why should anyone care what their name is? They always do exactly the same thing: c**k up education even further, a task which seems quite impossible and yet is usually executed with fantastic efficiency.
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I must admit I'd be very hard pressed to name more than half a dozen cabinet ministers, other than Dave & George. And, to be more honest, I really find it diificult to care any more, I disagree with so much of what the say or do.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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I wouldn't want to live in a country where complete ignorance of a topic would keep me from voicing very strong opinions about it.
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MehGerbil wrote: country where complete ignorance of a topic would keep me from voicing very
strong opinions about it.
Well if there was such a rule it would eliminate most of the politicians from ever opening their mouths.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I have been doing .NET (ASP.NET, winForms, C#) and MS SQL Server development (including SSIS & SSRS) for quite some time now.
I have now changed jobs and in addition to my prior .NET experience, my new role requires strong knowledge in Extensible Markup Language (XML), Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) and Web Service use and development.
I am therefore asking the Lounge community for a book recommendation to get me up and running with a strong solid foundation with the technologies mentioned.
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This is pretty simple stuff. The w3c schools[^] may be a good way to start.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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FAIL![^]
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Just a suggestion: While you learn XML, consider learning JSON also.
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Or forget both and just learn PostScript.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Here is one good book but only if you have time to spend on xslt. For not complex need w3schools is pretty useful
Clickety
And don't forget if you ever have problems, questions or something else, ask in the appropriate forum / place here in CP 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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If you managed to learn C# and T-SQL, the most is done.
- XML is only about taking care on how to write properly an XML document and knowing little bunch of terms (namespace, entity, processing instruction, element, attribute, CDATA). Best reference (you will probably never need it more than once) is http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/[^]
- XSLT (and XPath) is more challenging. It's a bit like learning T-SQL: both are functional languages, both have little grammar and both take a lot of practice to master. Here again, IMHO the best reference is still MSDN : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms256069(v=vs.110).aspx[^]
- XSD is about learning a standard for schema definition (not much more than knowing your web.config elements). A quick glance at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms256235(v=vs.110).aspx[^] will give an idea. Here again, Visual Studio is capable of doing the hard work for you, translating an entire dataset to his respective Xsd Schema. Schema used for XML document validation purposes require usually a little fine tuning.
- Web services are little more than a web page that returns a standardized XML instead of an HTML, and a corresponding client to interpret it. Visual Studio will handle most of the Object to XML serialization and deserialization for you and part of the dirty work (wsdl, interfaces). Real troubles start when mixing WebServices from different frameworks (.Net vs Java, for example).
I hope I didn't offend anyone with this simplification, but very often, big sounding words don't necessarily hide very complex concepts.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object
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thanks
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I second the recommendation to read the XML spec, but would also add that you need to read the Namespaces spec as well because it is an addition to the core standard that you almost always need, and while conceptually very simple, most people struggle to really understand how it works. If you want a good book,
XML in a Nutshell, Third Edition[^] from O'Reilly is pretty good.
XML Schema looks relatively simple, but the data model and semantics behind it are horrendously complex. In fact the technical lead of the group that developed the XML spec, as well as authored most of the XSLT/XPath 1.0 spec James Clark[^]) left the W3C over his objections to the complexity of XML Schema and how that complexity infected all the subsequent XML related specs. Fortunately, you usually don't really need to understand it because the tools take care of it for you. I think the XML in a Nutshell book covers this topic as well as you would need. When I have to author a schema by hand I usually use RELAX NG[^] Compact Syntax instead and use a tool to convert it to XSD.
If you only need XSLT/XPath 1.0, I would also recommend reading the specs - they are short and extremely well written. 2.0 is a completely different story - horrendously complex, primarily because it has to support XML Schema. Adoption of 2.0 is still pretty low so you may not need to know it, but if you do, I'd recommend XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference [^] by Michael Kay who was one of primary editors of those specs.
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