Monthly Archives: November 2005

Using Dom4J: Reading An XML File

By TechKnow | November 8, 2005

For almost every project I have worked on I have had to work with XML files. I’ve used SAX and DOM parsers and have even written my own XML writers. But now for most of my XML needs I use Dom4J. Dom4J will get you started quickly. These four little lines will read in an [...]

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Style And Class

By TechKnow | November 6, 2005

With JavaScript you can access and update an element’s style and even its class. Say that you have two CSS classes: .warning {color: yellow;} .error {color: green;} You can update or switch an element’s CSS class with the following JavaScript code: var element = document.getElementById(‘element’); element.className = ‘warning’; But you can access individual CSS attributes [...]

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JavaScript FX

By TechKnow | November 5, 2005

A lot of peeps are talking about Ajax this and Ajax that. Since JavaScript is the J in Ajax, what a lot of people have set out to do is create JavaScript effects libraries. There are several libraries available such as dojo toolkit, prototype framework, script.aculo.us, and others. I wanted to us some effects on [...]

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Word Mail Merge

By TechKnow | November 2, 2005

“Learn something new every day.” That is my personal motto and I really feel that everyday I learn something new. Well, the other day I learned about MS Word’s Mail Merge capabilities. Word’s Mail Merge feature allows you to define a Word document template to be used for every row in a data source file. [...]

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