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Load the MeSH vocabulary into a MySQL database. A simple script.

A simple script written in Java to load the MeSH terms into a MySQL database.
This script simply loads the MeSH terms (the value of “/DescriptorRecordSet > DescriptorRecord > DescriptorName > String” XML tag) that can be found in the MeSH XML formatted version of the vocabulay (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/filelist.html) into a MySQL relational database.
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Drupal, hide install text files using rewrite rules

I see lots of web sites that are using drupal cms and most of them are not hiding the text files that the installation process leave in the root directory. This is not a problem in general, but if you use an old version of drupal maybe is better not to show them to the [...]