December 5, 2003

Boxing of cats

The day brought new toys - these for me: And this one for Ju-ju: ...

December 3, 2003

On grouping in XSLT and EXSLT

Everybody knows grouping in XSLT is kinda advanced topic. Muenchian method is just a nightmare for XSLT newbies and XSLT-related newsgroups are full of help-me-to-group-in-xsl postings. Well, and I and fellows do answer such questions day afer day. Should admit that's a way booooring. Now I wonder why we don't ...

December 1, 2003

Quote of the Day

Mike Gunderloy has been programming computers for over 25 years now, and still manages to keep up somehow. When he's not writing software or writing about software, he's living a life of near-hermitude in the hills of eastern Washington state, raising children, chickens, and garlic. From "An Interview with author ...

WordMLToFO stylesheet

Just discovered that WordML to XSL-FO stylesheet does exist already. Well, I was talking about it since May, so no surprise somebody more effective than me just made it done. It's Antenna House guys, developers of the best XSL-FO formatter in the market. Check out this page. Sounds reasonable, they ...

Generating images in WordprocessingML

Well, seems like images are one of the WordprocessingML trickiest parts, at least for me. Here are humble results of my investigations and experiments in embedding images into XSLT-generated WordprocessingML documents. Images in WordprocessingML are represented by w:pict element, which holds both VML and binary data (obviously Base64 encoded). VML ...