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Managing XSLT projects with XPath

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.

Fake non-realtime non-twitter non-video blog from XML Prague #1

I wasn't there, but the XML Praguepresentations are online now. Here are my thoughts from rummaging through some of them. There was a strong emphasis on XSLT and XPath-based systems. I look at the presentations by Michael Kay, Tony Graham, Jeni Tennison and Ken Holman.

Are we losing the Declarative Web?

I saw something the other day that I was both intrigued and bothered by in equal measure. 'Mozilla and the Khronos Group Announce Initiative to Bring Accelerated 3D to the Web'. Apparently, the working group will look at exposing OpenGL capabilities within ECMAScript. The intriguing part is that, as a fan of 3D Computer Graphics and Animation this has got to be a good sign, especially if it is exposed in this way; but the bothersome bit is how people will end up using it because it has been exposed in this way. The crux of the problem for me is the question, JavaScript - what's it good for? Absolutely...

eGov Watch: The Importance of Data.Gov

The Illinois River is a slow moving, meandering waterway that originates out of Lake Michigan, flows beneath downtown Chicago, then cuts through the rich Illinois topsoil as it wends its way to Peoria (giving the area its distinctive river bluffs formation) then through the middle of the state until it finally meets the Mississippi river at Alton, Illinois, on the Missouri border. Given where it begins and ends, the Illinois sees a lot of river traffic, from barges laden with grain to shipping containers to steam-powered paddle-wheel boats that evoke the memories of Mark Twain.

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