It's 3:00 P.M. on a sunny Saturday afternoon. The birds are chirping, the
leaves are blowing, and you can hear the lake waters breaking on its rocky
shores. The sounds of a baseball game randomly crack in the distance, and the
roar of competition erupts on the basketball courts nearby.
My burgers are just getting medium-well as my wife is returning from a little
potty walk with the dog. Our blanket is set and our picnic looks like it will
be wonderful. Who knew a Web geek like me could pull off such a seemingly
perfect day? Interestingly enough, I owe much of its success to XML and
XPath.
XPath is to XML what SQL is to databases. Databases would be quite pointless
if you could not query information out of them, and the same holds true for
XML documents. XPath is a langu... (more)
"Sorry about that Adam, we'll have to take a deeper look at it. Uh-huh. Yeah.
No, I totally understand. Okay then, I'll give you a call if I still can't
replicate the problem."
Many of you recognize this phone call: the client has an issue and now you
have to figure out why. I usually find issues like this much more frustrating
than a cold hard error. At least with an error you get someth... (more)