Posted in Notes from the Field, XML on May 29th, 2007 No Comments »
(Sorry I’m a bit late getting this out!) The focus of day 4 of the XML workshop was XQuery. Yet another topic I don’t have much experience with and have been slightly intimidated by up until this point. Patrick Yott showed us that each XQuery is typically based on the FLWOR module:
For
Let
Where
Order
Return
Using this basic model [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field, XML on May 24th, 2007 No Comments »
The morning of day 3 focused on advanced XSLT; primarily conditionals such as <xsl:if>, <xsl:choose>, <xsl:when>, and <xsl:otherwise>. There was also discussion of XSLT functions such as position(), last(), and name(). name() is really helpful if you want to know what the name of a given node is or use the name of a given [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field, XML on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Day 2 of this workshop had us spending the morning focusing on XML-Schemas some more. We had the opportunity to markup a document in light of a particular schema, which was enlightening but not something I’d likely do as part of my job.
The afternoon session focused on XSLTs. Most of this was review for me. [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field, XML on May 21st, 2007 No Comments »
This week I’m in Austin for ARL’s workshop on Web Development with XML. Over the course of 4 days the workshop is supposed to cover a range of topics from What is XML to XQuery. I signed up mostly for Days 3-4 but thought that after not using some of my XML skills in a [...]
Posted in Coldfusion, XML on Sep 28th, 2006 No Comments »
I’ve been posting off and on about ways to transform an RSS or Atom feed into HTML using an XSLT, and Coldfusion. However, I failed to mention that you can also use the DOM and Coldfusion to make the transform happen. Here is a working example that does RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom 1.0 [...]
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 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 [...]
