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16 October 2006 11:01

Alternative Rete implementations

For the other two people in the world who are interested in such things, Peter Lin, Chimezie Ogbuji, Johan Lindberg and I have been debating the finer points of Rete engine implementation over on Peter's web site.   The main thing to emerge
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16 October 2006 10:35

MS BRE: Further Issues with XPath Selectors in the Microsoft Business Rules Engine

This article supplements an earlier article, posted a couple of weeks ago (http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/articles/90102.aspx), on issues concerning the use of XPaths to map between the hierarchical data structure of an XML document and the relational
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16 October 2006 10:27

Negation-as-Failure and the Microsoft Business Rules Engine

‘Negation’ refers to any mechanism by which we change the truth value of a statement to the opposite of its current value.   We use negation extensively in speech.   Consider the following two statements: “I am called Charles
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16 October 2006 10:13

Using XPath to handling XML in the Microsoft Business Rules Engine

A couple of days ago I found myself, yet again, introducing another BizTalk developer to the delights of using XPath with XML facts in Microsoft's rule engine. I've begun to lose count of the number of times I have been asked to troubleshoot issues
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