Archive for June, 2008

XSL 2.0 Requirements and survey

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

The W3C XSL FO subgroup is working towards XSL-FO 2.0. The first public working draft of the XSL-FO 2.0 Requirements document was published at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslfo20-req/ back in March. The best way for the Requirements document, and an eventual XSL-FO 2.0, to reflect peoples’ needs is for people to read the document and provide feedback.

Two of the best ways for you to provide feedback about XSL-FO and the requirements for XSL-FO 2.0 are:

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xmlroff in Ubuntu 8.04

Friday, June 13th, 2008

xmlroff is available prepackaged for Ubuntu 8.04! Instead of my reciting the list of packages that you need to build xmlroff, I just need to tell you to install it from the ‘universe’ repository using the Synaptics package manager.

Thanks must go to W. Martin Borgert and others of the Debian XML/SGML Group for doing the packaging work so that Ubuntu could pick it up as well as to the Ubuntu folks for including it.

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Veni, Vidi, Wiki

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Translation: I came, I saw, I posted about it on a collaborative site.

Cf. Wiki, Vidi, Veni (Place or event reviewed on a collaborative site, I saw, I came)

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Why use more that XSLT for testing XSLT?

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Why should you prefer an XSLT unit testing framework that uses more that just XSLT? Two reasons: xsl:message and multiple output documents. (more…)

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Who needs Irish?

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

I first saw this book when someone was reading it on the train a couple of years ago. The title, Who needs Irish?, was intriguing, so I borrowed the book when I saw a copy in the Skerries Library. The publisher describes the book as “a collection of essays in English for all those interested in the Irish-language today.” However, maybe the title should have been “Why you need Irish” since all of the essays are in favour of Irish. (more…)

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