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Outputting entity references in XSLT 2

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Every now and then one has to output entitiy references unchanged from the source XSLT stylesheet to the result document, for example output ' ' to the XHTML source instead of just an actual space.

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Using Google Chart API

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The Google chart API is a dynamic chart library that is hosted at Google. It's implemented as a web service that renders image chart based on a series of parameters. It is very easy to integrate this into your existing application. This is thanks to the simple url approach and no need to do any form of login into the service itself.

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Plugin Tutorial: Using API in plugins

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All the Vertical Site API is available in any plugins. The client API is accessed using “ClientFactory” and the plugin environment is accessed using “PluginEnvironment”. Below I will illustrate some common usages.

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Plugin Tutorial: How to create a markup filter

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A response filter is a code that filters any textural output from a redered page. The filter can do anything with the text, like replace some tokens. In this example I will illustrate the replacement of a token with some data. Binary responses will not be filtered by this plugin.

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Plugin Tutorial: How to create a controller

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A controller is a code that does something to the response. It does not send the request down the chain. In this tutorial I will illustrate how to build a simple hello world controller. Yes, I said it was simple.

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Plugin Tutorial: How to create an interceptor

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An interceptor is a code that does something before and after a request. In this tutorial I will illustrate how to build a simple request profiler.

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Plugin Tutorial: How to create a function library

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In this article I will describe how to create a function library plugin. This plugin type extends the data source functionality by providing user-defined functions. Each class can implement multiple functions and are attached an installation-unique plugin key.

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Understanding CMS_HOME

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One of the new features in Vertical Site 4.2 was the concept of an application home directory. This is an externalization of the required configurations needed to run Vertical Site. It was done so that it is easier for you as an application deployer to configure, modify static resources and adding plugins.

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Using Google Ajax Feed API

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The Google Ajax Feed API is a JavaScript API for displaying RSS feeds. This is not something new, but this API is very easy to use and has a rich set of features. I will in this article show you how to do some basic feed consuming using the Google Ajax Feed API.

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Dublin Core in Vertical Site

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Sometimes you need to expand the concept of metadata, and the Dublin Core standard is an easy match for Vertical Site.

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