links.lmorchard.com - #xml

XML is a cheap DSL

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:19:02 +0000

The lesson I took from this is that a universal data representation is worth its weight in gold. There are exactly two options in this category. In most cases you should choose JSON. If you need a DSL though, XML is by far the cheapest one, and the cost-efficiency of building on it will empower your team to spend their innovation budget elsewhere.

Tags: #data #xml #xpath

Stop Telling Us XMPP Should Use JSON

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:54:30 +0000

We’ve been building XMPP systems for over 25 years. The XML performance question comes up often in early conversations. Every single time, we end up optimizing ejabberd configuration, clustering, architecture, client protocol usage, and databases instead.

Tags: #json #protocols #xml #xmpp

inessential.com: Brian’s Stupid Feed Tricks

Tue, 08 Apr 2014 03:42:40 +0000

Brian is intimately acquainted with the different ways feeds can be screwed up. So he posted Stupid Feed Tricks on Google Docs.

Tags: #atom #feeds #imported:pinboard #rss #xml

Encoded Archival Description Tag Library - Version 2002 (EAD Official Site, Library of Congress)

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:27:43 +0000

Tags: #archives #ead #imported:pinboard #metadata #xml

Encoded Archival Description Tag Library - Version 2002 (EAD Official Site, Library of Congress)

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:27:43 +0000

Tags: #archives #ead #metadata #xml

Generating XML With node.js - WezM.net

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:45:57 +0000

For a node.js project I’m working on I wanted to generate a Sphinx xmlpipe2 data stream. The options for generating XML with node.js seemed a bit limited. The main contender appeared to be libmljs but it segfaulted whenever I tried to use it. So with previous experience using Tim Bray’s Genx C library I decided to write bindings for node. The result is node-genx, which is available via npm.

Tags: #javascript #js #node #webdev #xml

Saxon diaries :: The ten most common XSLT programming mistakes

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:34:57 +0000

"In response to a user recently, I told him he had fallen into the most common elephant trap for XSLT users. Rather than being annoyed, which I half expected, he thanked me and asked me if I could tell him what the next most common elephant traps were. Although some of us have been helping users avoid these traps for many years, I don't recall seeing a list of them, so I thought I would spend half an hour compiling my own list. "

Tags: #tips #xml #xslt

Using SimpleXML with HTML | drewish.com

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:41:30 +0000

"PHP 5's SimpleXML module is one of the the biggest reasons to upgrade to 5. If you're parsing RSS feeds or the results of webservice requests it works beautifully and saves a ton of time. The only problem with it is that it'll only load valid XML. I banged my head against it for way to long before coming up with the following:"

Tags: #dom #html #php #scraping #simplexml #webdev #xml

Templates XSLTAL - Flux CMS - Public Liip Wiki

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:40:26 +0000

Tags: #tal #templating #webdev #xml #xslt

rephrase § E4X

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:40:07 +0000

"E4X, short for “ECMASCript for XML”, is an extension to ECMAScript (i.e. JavaScript, JScript, ActionScript…) with new syntax and built-in objects for more convenient handling of XML fragments. It seems to be used most frequently with ActionScript 3 (Flash), but is also available in recent Mozilla/Firefox releases."

Tags: #e4x #firefox #javascript #js #xml

Study: .gov web sites should focus on RSS, XML—not redesigns

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:29:31 +0000

"David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William Zeller, and Ed Felten, all of Princeton's Information Technology Policy Center, suggest that government officials abandon the dream of developing usable web sites, and instead focus on providing raw public data such as

Tags: #data #government #rss #web #xml

xml2json-xslt - Google Code

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:55:29 +0000

"xml2json.xslt is a XSLT 1.0 stylesheet to transform arbitrary XML to JSON."

Tags: #json #webdev #xml #xsl #xslt

Introduction and QuickStart | The Open Source Journal

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:22:16 +0000

"It seamlessly passes log data through the file system and directly into a database. Unlike existing log parsers, which often run periodically and scan the entire file for changes, LoggerFS takes a unique approach by masking the database backend with a fi

Tags: #fuse #linux #loggerfs #mysql #xml

XQilla: XQilla

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:49:20 +0000

"XQilla is an XQuery∞ and XPath 2∞ library and command line utility written in C++, implemented on top of the Xerces-C∞ library."

Tags: #xml #xpath #xquery #xquilla

DOM:window.navigator.registerContentHandler - MDC

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:44:35 +0000

"For Firefox 2, only the application/vnd.mozilla.maybe.feed, application/atom+xml, and application/rss+xml MIME types are supported. All values have the same effect, and the registered handler will receive feeds in all Atom and RSS versions."

Tags: #aggregators #atom #feeds #firefox #rss #webdev #xml