September 6, 2004

Nice one

From "Fallacies of Validation, version #3" by Roger L. Costello: 5. Fallacy of a Universal Validation Language Dave Pawson identified this fallacy. He noted that the Atom specification cannot be validated using a single technology: > From [Atom, version] 0.3 onwards it's not been possible > to validate an instance ...

Goodbye The XML Files, welcome Service Station

Aaron Skonnard about his The XML Files column of the MSDN Magazine: This pretty much says it all. In the beginning, my column focused almost exclusively on core XML topics such as XML namespaces, XPath, XSLT, MSXML, System.Xml, etc. Over the past few years, my focus has naturally shifted away ...

September 5, 2004

EXSLT.NET progress

Lots of activity in the EXSLT.NET project recently. We implemented more functions such as random:random-sequence(), str:encode-uri() and str:decode-uri(). Lots of bugs have been fixed. Support for time zone in date-time functions has been implemented. We switched to Visual Studio .NET 2003 so simplifying our custom build process. Currently I'm writing ...