November 13, 2003
Interesting article about incremental XSLT. I only wish it comes true some day.
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Last Call Working Drafts for XSLT/XPath/XQuery have been published. Last Call period ends 15 February 2004. Oh my, when I'm going to read it? XQuery 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-20031112/ XSLT 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xslt20-20031112/ XPath 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xpath20-20031112 XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xpath-datamodel-20031112/ XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xpath-functions-20031112
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From saxon-love-in-department:>>
>> How did Michael do it .
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The biggest factors are a total absence of project managers, marketeers,
junior programmers, and paying customers who think they know best.
Michael Kay
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November 12, 2003
Just found new beast in the Longhorn SDK documentation - OPath language: The OPath language is the query language used to query for objects using an ObjectSpace. The syntax of OPath also allows you to query for objects using standard object oriented syntax. OPath enables you to traverse object relationships
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November 11, 2003
The day started with bad news from W3C - XInclude 1.0 has been whithdrawn back to Working Draft maturity level. Actually Last Call WD, but anyway the step backward. The main reason is most likely primarily architectural one - seems like URI syntax with XPointers in fragment identifier part has
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Via Carnage4Life: Top 50 IRC Quotes
My favorite one:
*** Quits: TITANIC (Excess Flood)
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November 10, 2003
Well, it's extremely well-chewed topic well-covered by many posters, but provided people keep asking it I feel I have to give a complete example of the most effective way (IMO) of solving this old recurring question - how to transform CSV or tab-delimited file using XSLT? The idea is to
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