Monthly Archives: April 2008

>Drinking the EMF Kool-Aid

Posted on April 24, 2008 by

>Recently I ran into a problem that seemed perfect for EMF to solve. Typically, I’m not a model driven development person, but I need a model for an XPath expression after it is parsed. Various information needs to be tracked, … Continue reading →

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>Agile Standards Development

Posted on April 17, 2008 by

>One of the fundamental problems with Business-To-Business interoperability of data standards are the many one-off variations that occur. This is compounded by the inclusion within these standards custom extensions to the specification. While this may seem like a good idea … Continue reading →

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>The Evils of JAXP

Posted on April 16, 2008 by

>Recommendation: If you are using XML in eclipse, DO NOT use JAXP….unless you specifically set the the system property to control which XSLT, XML, and XPATH processors that you use. The reason for this is that you can receive some … Continue reading →

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>Cramps on Refactoring

Posted on April 14, 2008 by

>There have been several fairly interesting posts floating around about coding lately. From Ed Merk’s “Teflon Programming” article to an article about whether it is better to return immediately or have a single return (sorry I lost the blog article … Continue reading →

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>XSL Error Reporting Defaults

Posted on April 11, 2008 by

>An interesting bug has been opened due to a failing unit test with in the XSL Tooling project. It basically has to do with some interpretation of the XSLT 1.0 specification and parameters. What should be an error and what … Continue reading →

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>Web Standard Tools and LARGE XML File Editing

Posted on April 9, 2008 by

>Something that I learned today, that might help others that experience slow performance with editing large XML files. By large XML files, I mean files that are 500K or larger. By slow performance I mean: Noticeable Typing delays when in … Continue reading →

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>XSL Tooling 0.5M6 is Available

Posted on April 7, 2008 by

>0.5M6 of the XSL Tooling project is now available. Lots of New and Noteworthy features in this release. You will need Web Standard Tools 3.0M6 and Eclipse 3.4M6 to use this feature. Please download, kick the tires, and file bug … Continue reading →

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>To JavaDoc or Not JavaDoc that is the question…

Posted on April 7, 2008 by

>I just spent a pretty frustrating weekend trying to understand some internal code and how it works. A lot of the frustration could have been eliminated with some liberal application of Javadoc for the internal code. I hate writing javadoc … Continue reading →

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>XML Syntax – Oxygen XML Skin

Posted on April 4, 2008 by

>Okay, so I’ll admit that setting I used was a tad bright and might have given somebody skin cancer from the sun that it was channelling. So, the nice thing is that you can emulate other editor syntax colors as … Continue reading →

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>XML Syntax Colors

Posted on April 3, 2008 by

>I’m not a big fan of the default syntax colors that come with the Web Standard Tools XML editor. I find them hard to read and use for any extended period of time. Here is a screenshot of the colors … Continue reading →

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