May 29, 2003

On implementing custom XsltContext when extending XPath

Here is another easy-to-solve-when-you-know-what-is-wrong problem. It took me couple of hours to find the solution, so I wanna share it. Hope it'll be useful to anybody. The problem. When adding custom XPath extension functions as described in "HOW TO: Implement and Use Custom Extension Functions When You Execute XPath Queries ...

May 28, 2003

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Tim Bray on well-crafted spam: ongoing aloihin Backhuhn ambulant chopin. That's funny. You know, spam became a part of our life. But being behind mozilla's junk mail filtering I'd agree - we are winning. ...

EXSLT conqueres .NET

Dare has published a new cool article at his MSDN Extreme XML column: "EXSLT: Enhancing the Power of XSLT". It's about Dare's implementation of 60+ EXSLT functions for .NET XSLT processor. Kudos! That was a pile of work due to number of functions, I'm sure the community will appreciate Dare's ...

.Net Developer Journal May Issue in PDF

May Issue of .Net Developer Journal is available for free in PDF format. Good for those not subscribed like me. [Via Roy Osherove]. ...

Blogging and MSFT

Joshua Allen: When I started blogging a few years ago, I hoped that one day many MSFT employees would be blogging. The theory (to my ENFP mind) was that people would have a better opinion of MSFT if they could see that MSFT is not a monolithic evil juggernaut, but ...

May 25, 2003

The Matrix can make you thinking

Wow, while reading CORPORATE MOFO reloads THE MATRIX by Ken Mondschein I felt my flesh crawled when he shows how deep the ideas behind the Matrix movie can be. "cinematic ass-stomping" :) Worthwhile reading anyway. I knew it at the heart - the Matrix movie is just a postindustrial ...

If only the same could be said for Xpath2....

I like this from XSL-List by David Carlisle: XSLT 2 appears to be based on user concerns and problems. Apart from this character encoding feature (which is also useful in non xml outout, eg outputting TeX commands in text output) It also has a lot of help for grouping and ...