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  • Taking the pulse of XML editing

    Taking the pulse of XML editing

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  • Alexandra thoughts

    After the first release of Alexandra, I discussed with several people a major flaw, which was that it did not preserve the RNG order as given in the schema when it added or changed elements. I was concerned I would need to use some sort of database update-type scheme. I wasn’t keen on this as the only xml update project that seemed to be anywhere near a state of completion was XUpdate and it wasn’t very complete, and also seemed like a hassle. I realized later that I could generate XSLT to do the update. More recently I was working on how to pass through the positioning information for both elements that are already instantiated and ones that aren’t. I seem to have that completed now. So, at this point I believe it is possible to generate only RNG-valid instances using alexandra.

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  • Photos of Kenya

    Sudhakar “Thaths” Chandra posted some amazing pics of his visit to Kenya . Wow! Via silklist

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  • The parable of the net

    The parable of the net , a new article on ICT. The nets people use to catch fish are a lot like the nets people use to catch information. A net is a big thing made of lines with lots of holes in it.

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  • Economist on software patents in the EU

    The Economist :<blockquote>Moreover, as software is often built on the achievements of others, writing code could become a legal hurdle race. By analogy, if Haydn had patented the symphony form, Mozart would have been in trouble. </blockquote>

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  • weblog software update

    I just updated the weblog on this site to the axblog release. In addition I have converted over the front page from displaying full blog entries to just a synopsis (just the first 200 characters for now). You can view the whole entry directly by clicking on the […] link or view the most recent weblog entries all in one go by viewing simonwoodside.com/weblog or clicking “What’s New” or whatever.

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  • VoIP disambiguation

    By the way, my point with all of this VoIP nonsense is to point out that it’s not one thing, it’s two things, IP Telephony vs. Voice Chat. That’s my opinion.

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  • AxBlog 0.2

    An update of AxBlog to what I use currently here and on openICT and semacode.org

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  • The VoIP paradox

    The VoIP paradox . Voice over IP is paradoxically both internet and telephony at the same time. Presents the paradox and background information.

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  • Never winter

    A friend of mine bought me NeverWinter Nights for the Mac as it was released about two weeks ago. Well, obviously I’ve been playing the game ever since then, I finished it yesterday as a matter of fact. I played Barbarian. Spoilers ahead. I was very happy to be playing a berserker since it’s my favorite style of play anyway. I like to just charge into combat and hack away. My solution to traps was just to walk through them, I had a huge number of hitpoints and so on. My henchperson throughout the whole game was Sharwyn, the bard.

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