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Tactical and strategic XML design

By Rick Jelliffe
November 6, 2009

So I guess when we look at a system's architecture, the first thing we can do is ask 'Is this XML here being used strategically or tactically?' A strategic use might be, for example, to allow long-term archiving; a tactical use might be XML in AJAX (where using JSON would be another tactic.) If the answer is tactical, then we can ask 'Is it implemented in a way that allows flexible rearrangement, when a different tactic becomes appropriate?'

Managing XSLT projects with XPath

By Rick Jelliffe
April 1, 2009

One of the biggest changes in the way we do things at my office over the last five years has been a thorough but largely unplanned adoption of XPaths as a key tool for managing XSLT projects.

Reviving the Labs - "It's alive...."

By Simon St. Laurent
February 10, 2009

After a long hibernation, O'Reilly Labs has returned, with a mix of software and code that should excite casual ebook readers as well as dedicated publishing technologists.

Is It Time for an EXQuery.org?

By Kurt Cagle
January 7, 2009

For the most part, new EXQuery functions would simply represent wrappers around existing XQuery extension functionality in order to provide a consistent interface between databases. It would also set a bar that determines the minimal expectation of such databases and data systems and provides a way for new entrants into the field to be able to XQuery scripts without having to refactor code.

Warning: x = x + 1 May Be Hazardous to Your Brain

By Dan McCreary
November 17, 2008

Many people that are just starting in their software career have not been exposed to the contrast between two very different approaches to solving server side scalability issues. And although efficiently using 100 CPUs is not critical today, in the next five years it will become critical for a projects success. In this article we look at how the cognitive styles of functional and imperative software will shape the computing industry.

XSLT-based XHTML Markup Sanitizer

By M. David Peterson
October 14, 2008

I've been meaning to write an XSLT-based XHTML markup sanitizer for a while now and tonight discovered I needed it sooner rather than later. In case you find benefit from it, here it is

Poor Man's XQuery Update

By Erik Wilde
September 12, 2008

The IETF just published RFC 5261, an XML patch update framework. It's not a complete diff utility for XML, but it's somewhere between the obsolete XUpdate and the complex XQuery Update Facility.

XSpec

0 September 7, 2008

A while ago I put together a framework for unit testing XSLT. I’ve been using that for a couple of years and it’s been OK, but then I started playing with Ruby on Rails, and testing with RSpec: a framework...

Making OOP Work in XQuery

By Kurt Cagle
September 5, 2008

The concept of using XQuery as a mechanism for generating web pages is a comparatively new one in the XML Database and XQuery engine world, but the benefits to do so should be fairly obvious. Indeed, there's been a new meme that's begun appearing under the heading XRX, which stands for XQuery, REST, and XForms, though that last particular X could also stand, just as effectively, for XMLHttpRequestObject, the central component in the AJAX world.

XSLT 2.0++: Streaming XML Transformations and Parallel XML Message Processing

By M. David Peterson
September 2, 2008

After returning home from a two-week vacation, Dr. Michael Kay reveals what's next on tap for the XSLT Working Group at the W3C: Streaming XML Transformations. Will the combination of a Schema-Aware XSLT processor, streaming XML, and XMPP completely change the way we both think about and implement message processing solutions in the future? It's certainly possible.

Mastering XML Transformations

By O'Reilly Media
August 14, 2008

XSLT, Second Edition — After months of anticipation and delay, the W3C finally released the XSLT 2.0 standard in January 2007. The updated edition of this book offers practical, real-world examples that demonstrate how you can apply XSLT stylesheets to XML data using either the new specification, or the older XSLT 1.0 standard. Want to find out how the 2.0 specification improves on the old? This book will explain. Learn more.

Localizing XSLT error messages for Schematron

By Rick Jelliffe
August 14, 2008

I was surprised to read a review of Schematron and other schema languages which cited the lack of localization as an important reason to not use it, so the next release of the skeleton has localized messages. Here is the approach I took to localize the XSLT.

Importing XML documents into Word 2007 and OpenOffice Writer through XSLTs

By Rick Jelliffe
August 11, 2008

Opening an XML file with an XSLT transformation is a simple, useful and valuable technique for integrating work processing systems into larger XML ecosystems

Simple Pretty Printing with XSLT

By Eric Larson
July 13, 2008

The other day a coworker asked about a simple way to format an XML file. Basically, he just wanted to get some nicely indented output to look at. At first he try get things working with Eclipse's XML editor. From...

why XSL-T support in the browser is a failure

By Bryan Rasmussen
June 30, 2008

Google needs to minimize the number of formats they MUST support, especially of dynamic formats where the content needs to be interpreted in order to be indexed. Think of how long it took for them to make some inroad on indexing Flash (as an example of flash indexing try this). The easiest way to prevent the need for indexing XML with XSL-T is to not do it until it becomes really wide-spread.

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