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DCA finished!

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I have finished (although I still need to do a few minor touch ups) my DCA (DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE) assignment. This was the online XML/JSP cd ordering system along with an XSD document. I have spent many hours on it.

I am now the XML guru, or something :p

I'll publish a link to it once I've handed it in.

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· Josh Street user
I am now the XML guru, or something :p


josh@joah:~$ curl -I www.bluetrait.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:17:05 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.0
Set-Cookie: bt_cookie_sid=0066f3487fcbab8d5a203b3aa52e0b2b; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html


XML guru serving XHTML 1.1 as text/html? :-P AvK would probably hang you! ;-)
· Josh Street user
Err... your blog messed up my markup. I had nested pre in code to make it format, but apparently it didn't like that and proceeded to add
tags anyway.
· Michael Dale user
I was serving it in XML but there was some issues with javascript. I'll need to look into it again at some stage.
· Matthom guest
What is XSD? ...and did you use XSL at all? Did you use JSP? That would be interesting.
· Stuart user
... and all I do at uni is illustrator and indesign...

Sounds good though.
· Josh Street user
I was serving it in XML but there was some issues with javascript. I'll need to look into it again at some stage.

document.write? The awstats tracker script? Someone has to have rewritten that thing with the DOM! Geeez... I can't find anything, so... maybe a post-HSC project. Or, you know, a pre-HSC-end project :P

Stuart: Is Illustrator and InDesign the reason your site is still down? Coz you just enjoy designing fancy holder pages? ;-)
· Michael Dale user
What is XSD? ...and did you use XSL at all? Did you use JSP? That would be interesting.

XSD stands for XML Schema. It is like a template for what your XML document will look like. If your XML document falls outside the constraints of the XSD file it will fail validation.

XSD is useful for when you have multiple systems operated by different entities. The XSD file allows you to make sure the data you receive is correct.

XSL is used for defining the style/layout of the site. For this project XML is only used for backend services. I used standard XHTML for the website.
document.write? The awstats tracker script?

I don't remember what the problem was. I shall look into it though.
· Stuart user
Something like that Josh. Too busy with uni work, plus i'm still mucking around with it.

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