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Exploring Cisco UCS Emulator Internals

This post looks under the hood at the internals of the Cisco UCS Platform Emulator and points out a number of interesting things about the emulator. It assumes that you are familiar with UCS.

NX-OS NETCONF Support

This post demonstrates how to use the NX-OS XML interfaces and NETCONF to retrieve configuration information from, and configure interfaces on, a Cisco Nexus 7000.

XSLT 1.0 Multiple Namespace Issues

This post discusses namespaces in XML documents and XSLT 1.0 stylesheets. In particular, it demonstrates a number of techniques to control namespace prefixes and declarations in outputted documents.

XSLT Dynamic Path Evaluation

This post discusses the problem of dynamic XPath expression evaluation in XSLT 1.0 and XSLT 2.0 and how to handle it using an EXSLT extension function.

XSLT DateTime Formatting

Support for date and time formating in the XSLT 1.0 specification is non-existent. This did not mean that a person cannot format date and time strings using XSLT 1.0; it just makes it much harder to do so and adds many extra lines of code to stylesheets. However it is something that everybody who develops stylesheets ends up having to do. In this post I show you several ways to format dates in XSLT 1.0 and discuss some of the new dateTime formating and manipulation functions in XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0.