Author: Ianforrester

Very useful xslt for transforming xslt with xslt to svg, great for documentation.
Visualizing XSLT in SVG

Looking to edit my opml files on my ipaq without develving into xml, is this it for editors of the pocketpc platform?

Pocket Mind map
Streamliner
PocketPCHow2 Log

I've been looking at online opensource xml editors for a while now but it seems now there really getting there acts together.

Xopus

These guys are even working on a commericial version.

Bitflux

This works across any platform and seems based around Mozilia which is great news for my work.

I hope for a better future, and one of the hopes was for a xml authoring tool which would hide the xml from users but constrain them to a xml schema.
Even a year ago I looked at different solutions and they were honestly crap to say the least. Then I heard about Office 2003 by Microsoft of all corps, and thought maybe there doing something right for once?
Yeah right… I think this pretty much sums up the current situation.

At Microsoft's Mercy

Its does talk about Open office a bit and how that fits into the picture with Microsoft, Corel and Adobe. With the other links off that page its a quite good read and sums things up.

Now thats what I'm talking about! A schema for CV's.
XML Resume Library
XML.com's review of the XML curriculum vitae schema

I am very confused,
I heard of soap and thought that was the standard for webservices. And it seems like it but then I came across xml-rpc? What the hell is that when its at home? Well I finally worked out the other day.
Daves history of soap. Very informal and easy to read even for non programmers like me.

Anyhow thats not what I was writing about really.
I've been playing with soap in cocoon as a client, realised quicky that a soap service is a whole bigger thing than i imagined. Just been gathering information from amazon using the tutorial in my cocoon book. It seems quite straight forward specially when you understand the concept of a soap env and the like.
but how does xml-rpc fit into all this? Humm its a difficult one because soap does all the lovely things like validate via a xml schema, etc. Xml-rpc on the other hand doesnt seem to do all that but is simplier to use and less verbose. It seems like it the difference between xml schema and relax ng. Both do the same thing and each have there advantages. I think I'm going to stick with soap because if i can understand that, then xml-rpc wont be that much more difficult to learn.

Found this while looking for a gui for exist, Jack svg. Basicly its a presentation tool which converts xml into svg.
JackSVG is a program that takes your presentation contents, written in a simple XML-based language, and produces a SVG file formatted for presentation

Now I could do this easily myself but to write the xsl would take man hours which I dont have but I could also write a xsl turn the same xml into pdf using apache's xsl-fo.
Humm, will try this out on the weekend of once I solve this problem with storing xml in exist.

The best opensource xml database I can find at the moment Exist. Written by a mastermind and good enough to use in almost every project regarding xml. Supports xinclude and limited xquery. Works so well with cocoon its untrue and has built in support for webdav. Amazing stuff, cant wait to find more time to experiement with it.

Querying exist is easy as pie.
supports cocoon views – very useful. as in http://127.0.0.1:81/exist/xmldb/courselets/?xpath=document(*)//q&cocoon-view=content (thank you miles)

A interesting gui tool for xml databases XMLdbGui. Got it working but it hates folders with spaces such as program files. Pain in the arse…