Re: XPath related question

2008-02-08 Thread Doug Tidwell
Venkat, I made a couple of points below. Send me the stylesheet and I'll look through it if you want. The complication for your second question is that in XPath/XSLT 1.0, some instructions work with the first node in a nodeset, while others iterate through the whole nodeset. Cheers, -Doug

Registration now open for SCA/SDO events in India

2007-10-25 Thread Doug Tidwell
Friends, the registration page for the SCA/SDO briefings in India is up and running. These are vendor-neutral events in which we talk about the joys of SCA and SDO, using Tuscany for the demos. The registration page for these events is at http://www-07.ibm.com/in/events/soaedge/index.html.

SCA/SDO briefings in India and North America

2007-10-15 Thread Doug Tidwell
Friends, we've finalized the schedule for SCA/SDO briefings in India and North America for the rest of the year. These are vendor-neutral events in which we talk about the joys of SCA and SDO, using Tuscany for the demos. Here are the events: November 6 - Chennai, Taj Coromandel Hotel,

Best practices for client application flexibility demo

2007-07-31 Thread Doug Tidwell
Friends, I'm working on a demo to illustrate the flexibility SCA provides to client applications. I want to take the exact same code and use it to invoke different services using different access methods, etc., without changing the code. As I see it, there are three ways to do this. In

Re: [DAS] XQuery-DAS

2007-07-13 Thread Doug Tidwell
Gang, how is XPath support implemented today? I've looked at the code briefly in the past, but couldn't make sense of it. I was hoping that XPath support came from the Xalan jar files. If that were true, it would be a SMOP to replace the Xalan XPath libraries with the Saxon libraries. Saxon