Here's a snippet of code to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server 2003 database. I had to download Microsoft's SQL Server JDBC Driver from Microsoft's website, and...
<!-- This code is modified for Water version 3.11 beta. --> <set result= <vector <thing ContactName="Neither 3.4 beta, nor 3.11 beta detected." /> /> /> <if> ...
There are now four short example Water programs posted at the Waterlanguage.org site. The URL is http://www.waterlanguage.org/examples.html The examples...
Below is a new string_max type definition with some test cases. The name was chosen to sort with string in documentation. Can anyone suggest data-safe code for...
Problem: A longer description field was copied into a shorter description field and truncated to the max length for the shorter field. The shorter field now...
Announcement for the next BostonWater User Group http://www.bostonwater.org SOAP and Water Tue, Sep 30, 2003 7:00pm Water Request is a new Water solution that...
Scott, Here's the answer to your question-- You wrote:----- <set myvector=<vector <vector "foo" "bar"/> <vector "baz" "qux"/> /> /> I want to be able to write...
I have an ASCII-text file I am parsing that has multiple lines of data that follow a particular pattern, e.g., '[Site "Rome, Italy"]', or '[Result "true"]' I...
Merrick, Regarding vectors and text streams, you wrote: Something like this: '[Site "Rome, Italy"]'.<matches info_line_pattern /> would return: <vector "Site"...
... As the co-creator of the Water language, I'll take the first stab at answering this question. The future is hard to predict, but Alan Kay said it best: ...
A new and improved Water Pattern will released in final form this November 25th and presented at the Boston Water meeting. It will support subpattern matching...
Here's a quick example I put together using some code Mr. Plusch kindly sent my way. I ran this under Water version 3.10.1. My regex_string variable is global;...
I want to thank everyone for Tuesday night's insightful discussion about how Web Services can be built using the Water language. I was especially impressed...
In other technologies, there's a clear separation of the data from the logic. With Water and ConciseXML, the data and the logic are one entity. Doesn't this...
One of the things mentioned at the Sept. 30th meeting of the Boston Water User Group, was the complexity of the existing XML technologies. Jay had with him a...
Since XML can be mapped directly to objects (using DOM or some other parser), can't you just store the objects in some sort of object-oriented database? I...
... one ... Sometimes its good to separate your program into what you think of as "data" and what you think of as "code". If you can identify such pieces of...
Fry, Thanks, I can see your point - Water can allow you the freedom to design the code in such a way that it can be more reusable than other current platforms....
I've read a couple of notes recently about XML traffic driving organizations to upgrade their networks. (See: SearchWebServices.com). Most of their concerns...
Looking toward the relatively near future (three to ten years) there will be a compelling need for a processing language that is specifically designed to use...
... Yes, Water and ConciseXML were designed to handle the situations that currently require the set of special-purpose languages of RDF, OWL, RDF Schema,...
... The verbosity of XML has restricted the places where XML can be used and there have been a number of approaches trying to deal with this problem. Ideally,...
I just noticed to my horror that Water is not represented on this excellent web site comparing various programming languages by writing a program that writes...
I just submitted the following: <doc bottles_of_beer_song author="Mike Plusch" copyright=2003> Creates the text for the song "N Bottles of Beer on the Wall" ...
... bin/ret_thing.cgi?" /> /> ... The behavior is what you want in the next version which will be released next week. In the meantime, here is a patch to the...
A couple of questions on the local environment <set x="local"/> creates a field in the local environment. How can I get a list of the fields in the local...
The local environment is available through the symbol "_environment". To remove a local variable, do _environment.<remove "x"/> Now that you mention it,...
