May 26, 2005

Altsoft released Xml2PDF formatting engine version 2.3, now supporting WordML

Altsoft N.V. has announced a relase of the Xml2PDF formatting engine version 2.3, now supporting WordML. Altsoft Xml2PDF is a .NET based formatting engine for converting various XML-based formats to PDF. It supports XSL-FO, SVG, XHTML, WordML and XML+XSLT as an input and generates PDF as an output. The prices ...

May 25, 2005

Mvp.Xml Project Statistics

SourceForge has fixed the stat system and now we can analyze Mvp.Xml project statistics. The numbers are good - 8-15K hits/mo and 700-800 downloads/mo, not bad for a 1.0 release. ...

Hibiscus time

Hibiscus blooms again at our home. Actually outdoor it blooms non stop all year here in Israel, serving as a perfect undemanding but beautiful hedge. It's everywhere, every color and every form, there are even Hibiscus trees. But my home Hibiscus blooms two or three months in a row, then ...

70-316 Exam: Passed. Got MCAD.

So yesterday I passed 70-316 exam ("Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET"). Slack preparation during a week, bad-surprizingly too many questions on darned DataSets, but anyway I got 900 out of 1000. Now that I passed these three exams (70-315, 70-316 ...

May 22, 2005

Netscape 8 Breaks XSLT in Internet Explorer?

Some users report that after installing Netscape 8 Internet Explorer and other IE-based browsers usch as Avant browser stop applying XSLT stylesheets, even the default stylesheet used to render XML documents. That probably has something to do with "Firefox or IE6 rendering" feature in Netscape. Beware. If you do make ...