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 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 [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field, XML on Mar 16th, 2005 1 Comment »
I attended a really good session on Web Services today in the Web Design and Development Track. The only problem with the session was that it was two presenters (Frank Cervone and Larry Mzarek) and not enough time. Frank provided an overview of Web Services while Larry talked more about the possible practical applications including [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, XML on Feb 18th, 2005 No Comments »
PHP XML Adventures
I've spent the last two days playing with PHP and XML on my new Mac.
I've managed to get PHP successfully installed. Well, sort of. The
regular parts of PHP work just fine. I created the typical “Hello
World” test without a hitch. However, the PHP extensions that I most
want XML-DOM, XSLT, XML-RPC don't seem to [...]
Posted in Ongoing Projects, XML on Jan 30th, 2005 No Comments »
Playing with PHP
Thursday and Friday this week I started working on writing my first
project in PHP. Normaly, I code in ASP, but circumstances have dictated
that now I start exploring PHP. The project I am doing isn't just a
plain old PHP project though. It is a project using PHP and XML. I've
played with PHP before and [...]
Posted in XML on Oct 6th, 2004 No Comments »
XML and XSL in the Browser
There is an interest short article I just discovered entitled “So do people use XSL in the Browser Yet?“.
The articles talks about the fact that it is possible to apply and
XSL/XSLT to an XML document in most modern web browser. It discusses
the fact that you could off load some of [...]
Posted in XML on Aug 12th, 2004 No Comments »
UTF-8 Troubles
I've been working on a project using an export of XML data that is giving me fits. Some records in the export don't seem to be properly encoded in UTF-8. As a result, when I try to do any sort of transform on the file it won't work. Overall the project has been very [...]
Posted in Blogging, XML on Jul 24th, 2004 No Comments »
An XML-based Blogging tool So I have spent most of this summer working with a consultant developing an XML-based blogging tool for our library. The project is nearing completion and I can't express my joy in words. I would have to say that this was one of the more difficult projects I have decided to [...]
Posted in XML on Jul 20th, 2004 No Comments »
An XSLT for Furl XML
A while back I mentioned the fact that I was using XML from Furl to drive the “Resources” portion of my site. I decided that since other people might want to do this and don’t know how I should probably post the code. To do this transform you need a couple [...]
