Category: XMLDB

May 14

I once started this website because of the steep learning curve regarding XMLDB functionality. After one year of existence the following posts were written by mean , for me as a notepad to remember what I have learned and or checked, tested or figured out and to pass it on to all those who are interested in XMLDB functionality as well.

I hope these posts, this list provided here, will be of help, to make those first steps or help designing a working and performing XMLDB environment. There is still a lot to describe and learn and hopefully I have time to cover these in the second year to come.

Have fun reading.

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April 22

At current state, my world is a container and it is useless. I want to store content in it but I doesn’t comply to my container…

Today I visited Cary Millsap’s blog site and read his latest article about “Messed Up App of the Day” and could sympathize with his remarks. While looking for other articles that I maybe missed I saw Cary’s link “Joel on Software” and thought, “hey, I almost forgot about that cool website, so have a look”. Joel made an impression on me a long time ago with an article that was called “How Microsoft Lost The API War”(2004). I crawled a little bit around on Joel’s web site and found that really, really great article about “Martian Headsets“, that I could relate too, because I am a pragmatist trying to apply idealistic methods, but as said in the first line of this blog post, it just doesn’t work.

Being a “Martian”, I also like all my Martian colors of red… and I also like my “Qxyzrhjjjjukltk“. Cary has the same problem with his blog posts (you will understand if you read Joel’s blog post about the “Martian Headsets“) about “Messed Up App of the Day URL’s. He created a practical solution to a problem introduced by a idealistic standard.

The cool thing about XML is it’s natural human nature: It is free format.
The horrible thing about XML is it’s natural human nature: It is free format.

April 18

Triggered by a post from Eddie Awad about Current Date in an Oracle database called “Give Me The Current Date Please”, I thought about a XMLDB Forum discussion that ended up in a discussion about JavaDateTime. This discussion focussed me also on XML date time formats. Those XML (W3C) date time formats are explained on their website under the section “XML Schema Part 2 – Datatypes Second Edition“.

Two questions came to my mind:

  1. What is a java date time?
  2. What is the official XML format date time mask that should be used?

After some searching and asking my developer AMIS colleagues some questions, it came down to the following answer regarding a definition for java date time: