Posted in XML on Sep 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
So Bruce gave me a few tips on how to create a more effective transform that would change all different types of newsfeeds into HTML. My conversations with him helped me discover the fact that there are two different ways to develop XSLTs: push and pull methods. For a more detailed explanation check out this [...]
Posted in XML on Sep 13th, 2006 2 Comments »
I’ve been using <oXygen/> on my Mac to do XML editing and there is a lot to like about it. My favorite is the tag completion functionality. I also like the little XPath box which you can type an XPath expression into and it will show you what that expression selects. (Note: you have to [...]
Posted in Coldfusion, XML on Aug 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Remember how I said I was having problems using the XmlTransform function in Coldfusion to transform my EADs into HTML? My original solution was to alter the XML document. Not desirable, but I couldn’t find another way to deal with it. Well, here is another possible solution I found, which involves stripping the stylesheet and [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Aug 29th, 2006 No Comments »
I can’t help at laugh at the irony of the fact that on the heels of me reading Roy Tennant’s Library Journal article on The Gender Gap in systems librarianship and Dorothea and Meredith’s recent posts on gender, libraries and tech that I found out the other female librarian in systems resigned. Sigh! I want [...]
Posted in RSS, XML on Aug 28th, 2006 1 Comment »
I really wish that I had time to spend working on one project consistently. My XML project has been dragging as I work on a bunch of other job duties (most of them not related to coding). I was excited that Bruce has some suggestions about how to make my transformation for efficient. Unfortunately his [...]
Posted in RSS, XML on Aug 25th, 2006 2 Comments »
I’m still working on getting Coldfusion to transform RSS and Atom feeds into HTML and I’ve got stylesheets that work for each of the flavors of these RSS 0.9, 1.0, and 2.0 and Atom 1.0 and 0.3 . However, I’m having troubling with getting Coldfusion to tell that an Atom 0.3 feed is that so [...]
Posted in XML on Aug 21st, 2006 10 Comments »
I’ve been working on code to include newsfeeds into a web page using Coldfusion for our libraries new content management system. The first issue with creating this kind of code is that there are various types of news feeds available: RSS .9x, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom feeds. I want my tool to be [...]
Posted in Linux on Aug 21st, 2006 6 Comments »
Today, a colleague of mine passed along a good article from the July 10 issue of eWeek (here is a similar article from their website) about how different IT stacks perform. The article compared a number of different IT server setups (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP; Windows, Apache, MySQL, JSP and many more) to see how [...]
Posted in Wikis on Aug 11th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’ve been following a discussion on Web4Lib concerning wikis and access control and was struck by the following post by one of the list members:
I am repeatedly impressed by how often, when librarians consider wikis, their first thought seems to be of access control. The idea of “just anybody being able to edit our [...]
Posted in XML on Aug 10th, 2006 2 Comments »
I spent the better part of two days this week working on getting Coldfusion to properly transform a finding aid from EAD into HTML so that we can display our archival finding aids as part of our website. The biggest problem with this process has been the fact that Coldfusion doesn’t like the way in [...]
