January 25, 2005

Evening Summary - New Code of the Day Atom, RSS 1.0 RDF, and RSS 2.0 feeds and content area now live

This will be a quick evening update as I have some matters to attend to but I wanted to quickly make note that while the template in use is temporary (will match the main site which; at current its only a partial match) the section is permanent and as soon as I have a chance I will add the feed to the main page to allow client-side transformation access. This section has its own Atom, RSS 1.0 RDF, and RSS 2.0 feeds as well as its own set of categories such that they can be further fine tuned into...

there respectful XSLT 1.0, 2.0, XPath 1.0, 2.0, XQuery 1.0, FXSL, EXSLT, etc... main code type and then further drilled into the type of problem they help solve... The hard URL for this main <XSLT:Blog/> category is found at http://www.xsltblog.com/codeoftheday/. The first entry for the category is from XSL-List today in which Dimitre Novatchev further expands with a complete code sample from Dr. Kays comments in regards to Data Types in XSLT 2.0. I plan to post as often as I find quality code samples that seem that they will be useful to the community as a whole. If you feel I have missed something on XSL-List, XML-DEV or any of the various forums please let me know. And if you have an entry you would like considered for Code of the Day please don't be ashamed. Speak up! If it helps solve a real world issue I have no reason to not post it so please, keep the code flowin' in... :D

Some quick but important news via Elliotte Rusty Harold regarding sXBL:

Cafe con Leche XML News and Resources

IBM's developerWorks has published my latest artivle, An Early Look at sXBL. sXBL is a descendant of Mozilla's XBL. The goal for it is fairly limited: really just a macro language for Scalable vector Graphics (SVG). However, I think it has more potential than perhaps its inventors realize, as I try to make clear in the article. In particular, I think it could become a very important stylesheet language that can take on tasks XSL and CSS just can't handle.

--- Very Cool!

More lead categories and related xml feeds to follow over the next few days as I tie together the loose ends of the site design, layout, and functionality. In the mean time, enjoy!