March 30, 2008

Crowdsourcing in action: results

I was writing about a pilot the Library of Congress was doing with Flickr. I measured also number of tags, notes and comments and repeated the process several times during last 2 months. Here are some numeric results: As expected, while tags, notes and comments still coming, in general the ...

March 27, 2008

Generating HTML excerpts

Here is another interesting problem: how do you generate HTML excerpts preserving HTML structure and style? Say you have long XHTML text: <b>This is a <span style="color: #888">very long</span> text.</b> In browser it looks like this: This is a very long text. The text is 25 characters long. Now you ...

March 21, 2008

Generating Java using XSLT

We are working on yet another language migration tool and faced once again Java source code generation problem. Unfortunately Java doesn't have anything similar to .NET's CodeDOM, so we had to build own own Java generator. This time our development platform is XSLT 2.0. Yes, we are converting COOL:Gen (obscure ...

March 6, 2008

Sergey Dubinets is blogging

Sergey Dubinets, the guy behind Microsoft XSLT engine and tools is blogging. Subscribed. Highly recommended. More XSLT bloggers from Microsoft: Dimitre Novatchev, XSLT: Riding the challenge Anton Lapounov: XML XSLT and Beyond ...