Hectic days
Nov 11th, 2004 by Karen
Hectic days
If you have been wondering if I disappeared of the face of the
earth, the answer is “no, I've just been very busy.” My time has been
occupied with article writing (one for Computers in Libraries and another to be sent off to another yet to be determined
journal), search commitees, all my normal work, and presentation preparation.
Most recently, I've been working on my XML-based blogging tool some
more and have made
some significant progress. I've learned how to write an XML document
using ASP and the XML DOM. This is not how I originally was making my
XML. Working with it has helped me discover that this is a much more
efficient method than my earlier method. However, the DOM has taken me
some time to master. Now that I think that I have gotten the hang of
it, I'm finding that it is very efficient and easy to read the code.
At the moment I am working on writing the part of the tool which
allows
users to submit comments (also stored as XML). It has taken me longer
that I hoped but I am slowly getting closer to having it exactly the
way I want it. The DOM is an extremely powerful tool when doing XML,
particularly if you don't need to deal with the all the information
stored in the XML document. I can't wait to show off what I've learned
at Internet Librarian next week!
