November 28, 2006
ISO published RELAX NG standard (also "Compact Syntax") for free at the "Freely Available Standards" page. Hmmm, since when ISO provides free standard downloads? Also: Schematron, NVDL and more. [Via Rick Jelliffe]
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I've been reading about XProc, new XML Pipeline language proposed by W3C. Used to control and organize the flow of documents, the XProc language standardizes interactions, inputs and outputs for transformations for the large group of specifications such as XSLT, XML Schema, XInclude and Canonical XML that operate on and
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November 24, 2006
Just couple of months after XML Notepad 2006 release Microsoft ships another version, now called XML Notepad 2007. They even went and edited the article "XML Notepad 2006 Design" to be "XML Notepad 2007 Design". Cool. XML Notepad 2006 was released on the 1st September 2006, and 2 months later it had 175,000
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November 23, 2006
Back in 2005 I was writing about speeding up Muenchian grouping in .NET 1.X. I was comparing three variants of the Muenchian grouping (using generate-id(), count() and set:distinct()). The conclusion was that XslTransform class in .NET 1.X really sucks when grouping using generate-id(), performs better with count() and the best
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From TSS.Net I found out that Raymond Chen, the man who can make Win32 programming exciting, published a book "The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows". "The Old New Thing" is of course the name of his blog, described as "not actually a .NET blog
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November 19, 2006
Reporting errors in XSLT stylesheets is a task that almost nobody gets done right. Including me - error reporting in nxslt sucks in a big way. Probably that's because I'm just lazy bastard. But also lets face it - XslCompiledTransform API doesn't help here. Whenever there are XSLT loading (compilation) errors
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November 16, 2006
It's surprisingly easy in .NET 2.0. Obviously it can't be done with pure XSLT, but an extension function returning line number for a node takes literally two lines. The trick is to use XPathDocument, not XmlDocument to store source XML to be transformed. The key is IXmlLineInfo interface. Every XPathNavigator over XPathDocument
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I'm finally decided to switch web hosting. I'm currently on webhost4life, but I'm really not up to that "4life" part. It's getting slower and slower while people seem to be runnig away from them. So I'm looking for ASP.NET hosting recommendations. I need to host at least 3 domains with DotnetNuke, CommunityServer, MS
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November 15, 2006
If you are up to Microsoft certification you might be interested in this new offer from Microsoft called Exam Insurance: Get two chances to pass your Microsoft Certification exam With Microsoft Exam Insurance, you can retake a Microsoft Certification exam if you need to. You'll have two chances to pass
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November 12, 2006
W3C presented Planet Mobile Web site aggregating multiple blogs that discuss Mobile Web. It's hosted by the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. Really interesting reading. Subscribed. I skimmed some posts and it looks like the million dollar question every mobile blogger now think about is "how the hell we can get AJAX
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November 10, 2006
Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I’m not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software. I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed
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W3C announced the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 as Proposed Recommendation: Written for designers of Web sites and content management systems, these guidelines describe how to author Web content that works well on mobile devices. Thirty organizations participating in the Mobile Web Initiative achieved consensus and encourage adoption and implementation
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November 8, 2006
Remember that catchy RubyCLR motto? Now C# (Anders Hejlsberg) is playing catch up talking about automatic properties: public string Bar { get; set; }Above is meant to be translated by a compiler into private string foo; public string Bar { get { return foo; } set { foo = value
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November 6, 2006
Just one morning topics: Wikipedia Used To Spread Virus "The German Wikipedia has recently been used to launch a virus attack. Hackers posted a link to an all alleged fix for a new version of the blaster worm. Instead, it was a link to download malicious software. They then sent
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November 5, 2006
When working with XPath be it in XSLT or C# or Javascript, apostrophes and quotes in string literals is the most annoying thing that drives people crazy. Classical example is selections like "foo[bar="Tom's BBQ"]. This one actually can be written correctly as source.selectNodes("foo[bar=\"Tom's BBQ\"]"), but what if your string is
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November 2, 2006
This is a great picture my wife took. It's Tel-Aviv beach view from a landing plane. Speaking of Tel-Aviv, we've got something unusual happenning here. There was a tornado near the beach and UFO over the city. Btw, I believe I've seen that tornado while driving to work via Tel-Aviv.
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Remember this famous Mars face? So recently NASA found another one, here in the Earth, in Australia actually. They call it "Ghostly Face In South Australian Desert". I first though it's about upside-down face that reminds Dali paintings, but no. Can you see a ghost face here? That's really stupid
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