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  General Programming

1. Does SteelArrow support XML?
2. When do I quote?
Usage of quotes in SteelArrow is reserved for literal strings.  SteelArrow does support smart quoting (similar to JavaScript).  With smart quoting, a literal string can start with a single quote, and then contain double quotes.

<SASET NAME=sQuote VALUE='This is a "test"'>
or
<SASET NAME=sQuote VALUE="This is a 'test'">

In both cases, the quotes wrap the literal text they contain including the quote characters.  As a simple example, the following is an example of a simple literal string;

<SASET NAME=var VALUE="Hello World">

Normally variables that are created are never wrapped in quotes within a SteelArrow markup tag.  So to reassign the 'var' value to another variable the following can be done.

<!--- Good --->
<SASET NAME=var2 VALUE=var>

The value of var2 in this case will be the value of 'var' or "Hello World".

<!--- Bad --->
<SASET NAME=var2 VALUE="var">

The value of var2 in this case will be the literal string "var".

Applying this to the SAQUERY tag, we end up with;

<SAQUERY NAME=dbQ DATASOURCE="DSNname">

Notice that the variable is not quoted, but the DSN name is (since it is a lieral string).  Of course, we could have done the following as well;

<SASET NAME=dsn VALUE="DSNname">
<SAQUERY NAME=dbQ DATASOURCE=dsn>
 
3. Is SteelArrow case sensitive?
4. Is the order of attributes important within a SteelArrow tag?
5. Does SteelArrow work with Java and JavaScript?
6. How do I retrieve the value of the CGI query string?
7. How do I convert a string to a number?
8. How do I get the number of elements inside a list or a table.
9. What is the difference between the HTML comment <!-- Comment --> and the SteelArrow comment <!--- Comment -->
10. How do I send email messages with SteelArrow?
 

  SteelArrow Code Snippets

1. Code for a date picker with validation.
2. How do I uppercase the first letter of a name, and lower the case on the characters that follow?
 

  SteelArrow Data Types

1. Can I easily build a structure in SteelArrow?
2. How do I add data to a list object?
3. Does SteelArrow support associative arrays?
4. What data types does SteelArrow support?
5. Is WDDX supported by SteelArrow?
 

  SteelArrow Security

1. What security features are offered by SteelArrow?
 





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