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Validating an XML Document

The following code shows you how to use the DOMImplementationLS and DOMConfiguration classes to validate an XML document only when an XML Schema is present: DOMImplementationLS DOMiLS=null;//get a LSParserLSParser LSP=DOMiLS.createLSParser(DOMImplementationLS.MODE_SYNCHRONOUS,

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Autocomplete Combo Boxes

When you develop an application in Microsoft Access, your combo boxes will, by default, incorporate autocomplete. However, Visual Basic does not include this intrinsic support. If you want autocomplete in

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Trigger Efficiency in Oracle

The documentation for Oracle 9.2 and previous versions contains the following paragraph: “AFTER row triggers are slightly more efficient than BEFORE row triggers. With BEFORE row triggers, affected data blocks

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Determine the Direction of Stack Growth

A simple way to determine the direction of stack growth is to compare the address of a function parameter with the address of a local variable in the function. Of