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Hi, Am a newbie to WAP. I used to work with Vignette Story Server and then moved to Vignette Application POrtal. We now need to move the website from VAP to WPS and I was wondering if someone can guide me to some pointers on the web. How do we go about managing the whole process. Any help would...

Thanks everyone for your input. As a programmer I always try to keep the useability issues in mind. I hate popup's but have to program them because the managers/marketing guys want me to. Similarly, I'd rather index only the snippets that i am displaying, but it is really not up to me to decide...

Thanks for responding Chris and bringing this up. Ill just a give a brief description of what I want. We have content, that is behind registration barrier. Someone who is registered on the site can freely read that content. Some of the content is paid content. i.e. you have to pay a monthly or...

hi, I am a newbiew in this area. I was wondering if there is a way we can modify robots.txt such that the content is available to the search engines and not available to the real users. I was wondering if people know what are the common techniques that people use in instances such as these. Thanks

What I did to bypass this issue was simply add the report_title n number of times, so that every word that appears once in report_title appears to have a weightage of n.

Thanks Matt I was able to figure it out. For the records, I needed to use something like string-length(preceding-sibling::p[1]) < 200 to make sure I was going the the immediately preceeding sibling. Thanks -N

thanks. it worked.

Thanks, this is helpful. Another question, how do I find the length of current paragraph. ie, what replaces string-length(XXX).

XSLT newbie here. I want to accomplish the following. If paragraph is the second one, and it has less than 200 characters, i want to display the next one. Here is what I have <xsl:if test="count(preceding-sibling::p) = 2"> <p> <xsl:apply-templates /> </p> </xsl:if>...

Thanks guys. I ordered the params differently and it worked fine. Not sure why you should need to do that though, as long as you specify the values correctly

I have a database, where I need to make an update like X = ''' UPDATE TABLE A SET COL1 = 'VAL1', COL2 = :2 WHERE COL3 = :1''' I am making a call like c.execute(X, 123, 3) and it is not working. where c is db.cursor() and I am connecting using DCOracle2. Can someone help? I have...

I am looking for some help with a regular expression. I have a scenarios, where I have strings, with <table> within <table> tags within them. I need to replace the outermost table tags with <pre><table>. How do I write this reg ex. What I am thinking of doing is this. Take a string. Replace...

I am looking for some help with a regular expression. I have a scenarios, where I have strings, with <table> within <table> tags within them. I need to replace the outermost table tags with <pre><table>. How do I write this reg ex. What I am thinking of doing is this. Take a string. Replace...

bad caching may be?

Try something like this < a HREF="javascript:window.opener.location='/faq.cfm';self.close();>