\nBeing an integration specialist is never dull.\n<\/p>\n
\nI am going to excerpt from an IM chat with one of the programmers on my team, about an SSIS package we are developing.\n<\/p>\n
Here is the error information: C:\\temp31 does not exist!
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Something like that. <\/font><\/dd>\n
\nAt this point, everybody who knows me can tell this is a verbatim conversation, right?\n<\/p>\n
\nTo continue:\n<\/p>\n
So why do *you* read it that way? Why does it seem "real" to you?<\/p>\n
I will tell you why, but you will kick yourself… It's because you are a C# programmer .<\/p>\n <\/strong>\\r\\n is not "real. It is just a convention in some languages. There is nothing "real" about it. \nIn XSLT he ended up using <xsl:text> to force a line break in his text e-mail message. That's okay, but please note you can <\/strong>use properly encoded entity references <\/a>to create a CRLF in XSLT, just like you can in C#. \n<\/p>\n \nAs an interesting side-note, this project was being written in SSIS 2005. SSIS 2005 script tasks don't speak C# either. So, even if we were not using XSLT to formulate the message from the XML source containing the error information, we would have to use a VB convention, not \\r\\n, to get the job done.\n<\/p>\n \nIf he were sending the message body as HTML rather than text for this error notice, he'd have to use <BR\/>. SSIS 2005 script and HTML are two more environments that don't understand \\r\\n.\n<\/p>\n \nThere's always a way to do it.<\/strong> But there is nothing inherently "real" about \\r\\n, no matter a person who is single-language-centric might think.\n<\/p>\n \nI want to be fair and say that this particular programmer is usually very agile-minded as we hook differently-abled types of code to each other in an integrated application. I'm not pointing him out in particular.\n<\/p>\n \nI'm trying to say: in the world we live in now, nobody<\/strong> can afford to be language-centric. I'm trying to say: none<\/strong> of this is real. \n<\/p>\n \nUse what's best for the customer and best for the product. Don't get hung up on what's cool or what a vendor recommends. Don't get freaked out by the little places, like representation of characters, that are different in each environment. \n<\/p>\n \nJust take a breath, get your bearings, you'll find the right "words" in the right dialect. If what you're trying to express is important, have a little faith and realize there's a way to do it, in any language, no matter where in the world you are. \n<\/p>\n \nAnd be careful out there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Being an integration specialist is never dull. I am going to excerpt from an IM chat with one of the programmers on my team, about an SSIS package we are developing. He: I got: A package of type Policy, labelled as ECWISE\\XXX 2009-07-03 15:33:17.940, FAILED during its run from 2009-07-03 to 2009-07-03.\\r\\nHere is the error information: \\r\\n"\\r\\n—————————————————-PleaseRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-techspeak","category-life","category-sql-server","category-xml-xslt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYour mother and XSLT don't speak C#.<\/font><\/dd>\n <\/h2>\n
It's not XSLT's fault, or your mother's.<\/h2>\n
We live in the Matrix<\/h2>\n