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This blog is about to be incorporated into a single blog called "WebGuru" that will be available at my new geekSchool/MathGurus Online website (http://www.mathgurusonline.com).The WebGuru blog will contain posts about webmastering, web programming, and website analysis in general. This includes tips and techniques for Perl, PHP, XML, CSS, mySQL, javascript, data mining/ net metrics/ web analytics

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Hello everyone. I'm back from vacation. (Hey, I still worked 16-20 hours a day on my blogs and websites, so it wasn't really a vacation). I apologize for the batch posting of this message to all of my blogs, but I'm still madly reorganizing my blogs and this is the fastest way for me to communicate with readers... (The most current links to most of my blogs and website projects can always be

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In my last post, I showed how we could represent an XML file in a more compact format. One of techniques I employed was to organize "records" under their common key. In my example, I used the IP address of visitors to my website/blogsites as the common key. I took what was originally an XML attribute, clientip, in each <serverlogentry> element, and grouped them as a new attribute under a

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In the last post, I discussed what I'm calling WSML (Web Server Markup Language), which is in XML format. The WSML format is used for temporary XML files that transfer web server log data from the Extended Log Format into a PHP application (which I have yet to write or post to my PHP blog on).The current WSML format is in efficient. As I mentioned in the previous XML Tips post, a WSML file

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Note: This posting is directly related to my Perl-Tips blog. I'll shortly be putting up some Perl scripts there to parse web server log files. Please keep an eye on that blog if you are interested.In the process of parsing a web server log file to analyze visitor data to my blogs, I found myself using a temporary XML file to transfer information between a command-line Perl script and PHP web

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Many of the Internet-related programming problems that I solve involve either parsing data or massaging it in some way. I find that XML is a very handy means of structuring information to be reused. As I tend to use more than one language (usually Perl and PHP), I need a means of communicating data between these languages. WDDX is one method that I may talk about on one of my tech blogs in

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