October 2, 2004
Edd Dumbill has announced planet.xmlhack.com - aggregating weblogs of the XML developer community. The weblogs are chosen to have a reasonable technical content, but because this is as much about the community as it is about the tech, expect the usual personal ramblings and digressions as well. In short, Planet
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Well, here are some clarifications on how to join XQP project. You have to be registered at the SourceForge.net (here is where you can get new user accout) and then send some free-worded request along with SourceForge user name to me. That's it. Oh, and subscribe to the xqp-development mail
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W3C published XInclude 1.0 Proposed Recommendation. Now it's only one step left for XInclude to become W3C Recommendation. That's what I call "just in time"! I just finished integrating XInclude.NET into the Mvp-Xml codebase, cleaning up the code and optimizing it using great goodies of Mvp-Xml such as XPathCache, XPathNavigatorReader
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September 28, 2004
Well, I was talking about it a lot and finally decided to stop rambling and start doing. Here is my new toy: XQP project. XQP stands for XML Query Processor of course. It's going (if my karma is good enough) to be free open-source XPath2.0/XQuery1.0/XSLT2.0 engine for the .NET platform
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Well, XInclude.NET workspace at GotDotNet seems to be severely broken. I've sent a solid dozen of requests to fix it and now they even don't answer. Ok, moving the project to sf.net, specifically to the Mvp-Xml project. I'm adding XInclude.NET v1.2 sources to the CVS right now. After some setup
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September 26, 2004
Cafe con Leche XML News: Michael Kay has released Saxon 8.1, an implementation of XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery in Java. Saxon 8.1 is published in two versions for both of which Java 1.4 is required. Saxon 8.1B is an open source product published under the Mozilla Public License
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Tim Ewald shares some info on the MSDN2. Now that's soooo coooool! I think that's the best thing could happen with MSDN. And now I just don't believe they let Tim to leave MSFT!
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Dare writes on "News Aggregators As Denial of Service Clients": Recently I upgraded my web server to using Windows 2003 Server due to having problems with a limitation on the number of outgoing connections using Windows XP. Recently I noticed that my web server was still getting overloaded with requests
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Wesner Moise (.NET Undocumented) writes on enums perf in .NET. While enums are value types and are often recognized and treated like standard integral values by the runtime (in IL, enums and integers have almost no distinction), there are few performance caveats to using them. Enumerated types are derived from
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As it turned out unfortunatley I introduced nasty bug into date:day-name(), date:day-abbreviation() and date:month-abbreviation() functions while testing EXSLT.NET 1.1 before the release. Saturday and December never appeared :( Thanks to Chris Bayes for prompt bug report. Hence - EXSLT.NET 1.1.1 release. Please update.
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