JY: When XML meets Simplicity

Fri, 19 Apr 2002 20:04:23 GMT

xmlhack: XForms Basic invites public, reports vendor feedback "The work is being done by a special task force in direct response to public Last Call Comments that the XForms Basic profile was poorly specified and difficult to implement."

Fri, 19 Apr 2002 19:56:50 GMT

XML.com: Pyxie. "Pyxie is an open source XML processing library that presents an alternative to current methods of handling XML. A central part of Pyxie is the simple, line-oriented notation it uses to describe the information communicated by an XML parser to an XML application. This notation is known as PYX."

Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:48:29 GMT

John Robb is listening to my French mp3 tunes. Here is how I'm doing this using Radio Userland: Just under the form where I'm typing this, there's a place where I can paste an URL of a file (be it an MP3 or anything else). Hop I paste the URL of a Superflu track. I then hit the "Post" button and that's it... the little icon you see on the right appears with a link to the file on the web, and much better, people who have subscribed to my rss feed (see the xml icon on the left? Radio Userland loves them :-) ) will have their computer to download the track at midnight, when they are not using their computer (if you are a geek on your computer at midnight, you can chance it to noon :-) ). The result? When they come back to their computer, they have a fresh mp3 track waiting for them. Instant gratification.

Sat, 16 Mar 2002 18:41:58 GMT

Radio Userland: Driver architecture for the aggregator

Mon, 18 Feb 2002 21:14:31 GMT

BobF: HTML Lite "Its goal is modest -- to get past the uglification that occurs due to the lack of the concept of a paragraph in plain text"

Mon, 18 Feb 2002 20:22:24 GMT

Biz: Les macros : une alternative simple aux CSS pour separer structure et presentation

Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:32:27 GMT

More on the html2xhtml on the fly conversion proxy: XHTML conversion using Tidy (article).

Mon, 04 Feb 2002 23:42:39 GMT

Preforking and Compressing Proxy I think I found my proxy...

Mon, 04 Feb 2002 22:53:42 GMT

Regarding the discussion with Karl and Biz about XHTML and CSS for layouts (bad sum up: tables are bad, but CSS is hard to implement), I was wondering if there were a simple tool which acts as a proxy, and rewrites html files on the fly to XHTML. Such a tool would be very useful for people with disabilities who use special browsers. I haven't found any tool like this. If you know one tell me. Here is a solution which involves existing tools:

Squid as the proxy.
Tidy as the cleaner (html to xhtml + cleaning)
Something to link Squid and tidy. I don't know what yet, but maybe someone can help? (But maybe a single Perl script could act as the proxy server and call Tidy)

I can add that I tried Tidy tonight. I applied it on a fat page. Ramdomly I chose ScriptingNews homepage ";->".
With this command:
tidy --output-xhtml true --clean true -m scripting.html
the resulting transformed page still doesn't validate with the W3C html validation service. So I'm confused with the fact that Tidy doesn't produce 100% comformed XHTML1.0. Strange. Do I miss something?
Anyone can help?

Mon, 04 Feb 2002 22:41:03 GMT

http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/

Sun, 03 Feb 2002 23:31:33 GMT

The last post about building WebServices in Radio Userland went into my When XML meets Simplicity weblog.

Sun, 03 Feb 2002 23:21:19 GMT

This is a screenshot of my macOS X terminal with a python script calling the Radio WebService. Guess what... It worked ";->"

Sat, 02 Feb 2002 16:16:25 GMT

Useful Interfaces "There is the one called McDonalds - you give them money, they give you food. Then there is the one called FedEx - you give them a package and money, they get the package to the guy you were sending it to. "

Sat, 02 Feb 2002 13:51:09 GMT

Anti-CSS à la charge...

Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:20:49 GMT

CSS and XHTML or not? here is a poor Google translation of a French discussion.

Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:11:12 GMT

Envoyons paitre les CSS (reponse a Karl) : "Ce qui me frappe, c'est que tu arrives a ecrire une phrase avec tant de "si" sans te demander si par hasard, tous ces non-respects des standards, toutes ces implementations incorrectes, tous ces navigateurs et outils d'edition qui ne font pas correctement leur travail etc. ne seraient pas symptomatiques du fait qu'il pourrait y avoir un probleme avec le standard ou la facon dont il a ete introduit ? Ou est le conditionnel ? D'ou te viens une telle surete de toi ?"

Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:09:26 GMT

De l'intérêt des standards et du manque d'histoire de certaines personnes : "Pourquoi on est là ? : parce-que la plupart du temps, les développeurs n'ont pas respecté les standards et ne les ont pas implémentés correctement, parce-que les premières fois sont importantes et le resteront toujours. Si les outils avaient été correctement implémentées, si les navigateurs et les outils d'éditions faisaient correctement le travail, vous n'auriez pas à vous poser de questions. " Pourquoi les développeurs n'ont-ils pas respecté les standards et ne les ont-ils pas implémentés correctement ?

Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:36:19 GMT

CSS mes couilles (PHP3 aussi): "Trois jours que je me bats à faire une page valide..."

Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:41:22 GMT

Envoyons paitre les CSS : "Personnellement, j'en ai ras le bol du XHTML et des CSS et je suis fatigue d'entendre toujours les memes commentaires sur les memes choses tres compliquees."

Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:17:04 GMT

This document describes "a format for storing outlines in XML 1.0 called Outline Processor Markup Language or OPML".

Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:16:24 GMT

RSS 0.92 Share your web site contents (or more! logs, products updates..) easily.

Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:10:41 GMT

Digging Animation: "Today we will start our foray into the neat world of SVG animation". I wouldn't say SVG is simple, but graphics speak easily to a non-expert audience.

Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:03:49 GMT

WebContent Validation with XML::Schematron: "Created by Rick Jelliffe, Schematron is a simple XML application language designed to make validating the structures of XML documents as straightforward and painless as possible."