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Inserting an XPath Expression into a Java Application can be very useful if you need to develop a Java application that evaluates a simple XPath expression. Just a copy/paste your
Suppose you’ve just copied something to your clipboard. Want to send somebody an email containing that clipboard data? Just press CTRL+V in outlook. This opens a new Window with the
Ever wish you could have your RMI application notify you when it’s using the distributed garbage collector? Sometimes it’s useful to know when a RMI server “kills” an object. Just
Here’s an example of how to use XSLT 2.0’s new character-map element to replace a character (or group of characters) with another character (or group of characters) on the transformation
More and more Windows applications are internationalized to take advantage of the global marketplace. However, multi-byte string handling functions may impact program’s performance and should not be used with single-byte
Maybe you’ve noticed that when a DataSet’s date columns are passed to a remote web server or web service whose time zone differs from that of the client, the date
The code below contains standard, pre-defined macros used at runtime to determine whether a C or C++ compiler was used to compile the code. For C compilers, it also determines
To get the current date, your first instinct is probably to use the java.util.Date class. However, this class has so many deprecated methods that it’s probably best to ignore it.