November 27, 2003

The power of XmlResolver

Finally I got a time to fully implement support for XmlResolver in XInclude.NET (see Extending XInclude.NET). Wow, this stuff looks so powerful! A friend of mine is writing an article about using resolvers in System.Xml, so no spoilers here, all I wanted is to illustrate what can be done now ...

November 26, 2003

Mantra of the day

XML is syntax, and only Unicode in angle brackets is real XML. Elliotte Rusty Harold Close your eyes and repeat it 100 times to yourself, then feel free to read xml-dev mail. ...

November 25, 2003

Exhausted

8 hours of meeting on extremely boring topic... Oooooooh, I feel like I'm in dead message queue. ...

November 24, 2003

Extending XInclude.NET

It turned out people do use XInclude.NET already and even more - now they want to extend it! First one user wanted to be able to resolve URIs himself, via custom XmlResolver. I did that yesterday (download XInclude.NET v1.2beta if you're interested in such behaviour), but I didn't go beyound ...

Bookworm's joy

By the way, Fawcette XML and Web Services Magazine has piblished a free book chapter of the "A First Look at ADO.NET and System.Xml v. 2.0" book by Alex Homer, Dave Sussman, and Mark Fussell. I've devoured the chapter last night and now I think I'm going to buy the ...

November 23, 2003

Sued for antispam

This Wired report is overwhelming: the guy who has been sending threatening messages back to the spammers, which refused to unsubscribe him from their spam mail list now faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. /. discussion here. Mark Pilgrim's prediction has been proven. ...