October 20, 2004

SAX for .NET 1.0 released

Karl Waclawek has announced the first production release of the SAX for .NET library - open source C#/.NET port of the SAX API. It contains API and Expat-based implementation. AElfred-based implementation is expected soon. ...

OPath language intro

"An Introduction to "WinFS" OPath" article by Thomas Rizzo and Sean Grimaldi has been published at MSDN. Summary: WinFS introduces a query language that supports searching the information stored in WinFS called WinFS OPath. WinFS OPath combines the best of the SQL language with the best of XML style languages ...

On pretty-printing XML documents using MSXML

Yeah, I know it's an old problem and all are tired of this one, but it's still newsgroups' hit. Sometimes XSLT is the off-shelf solution (not really perf-friendly though), but <xsl:output indent="yes"/> is just ignored in MSXML. In .NET one can leverage XmlTextWriter's formatting capabilities, but what in MSXML? Well ...

October 18, 2004

Dare's The XML Litmus Test

MSDN has published "The XML Litmus Test - Understanding When and Why to Use XML" article by Dare Obasanjo. Cool and useful stuff. But an example of inappropriate XML usage I believe is chosen quite poorly - in such kind of articles samples must be clear and clean, while sample ...

October 17, 2004

Derek Denny-Brown is blogging

That's sort of news that make my day - Derek Denny-Brown is finally blogging. Derek is working on XML/SGML last 9 years and currently is dev lead for both MSXML & System.Xml. Here is his atom feed if you can't find it on that dark-colored page. Subscribed. [Via Dare] ...