Jeff Atwood touched an interesting topic yesterday, Sorting for Humans : Natural Sort Order.
Let’s sort the following strings: a, A, b, B, 1, 2, 10The ASCIIbetical order is as follows: 1, 10, 2, A, B, a, bThe natural sorting, for most human beings, is as follows: 1, 2, 10, a, A, b, B
Sorting strings [...]
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I was reading an interesting discussion yesterday on xquery-talk, replacing a node in in-memory XML.
How can one modify an XML structure through XQuery? In the future, the answer is definitely XQuery Update Facility. But the XQuery Update Facility is currently still work in progress, and not yet widely supported. What do we do today?
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When using a programming language, sooner or later we all end up trying to solve similar problems. When I enjoyed writing applications in Prolog or C++ (yes, many years ago; and yes, I said enjoy), I wasn’t lucky enough to be able to search the Internet for answers, and I had to find solutions to [...]
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