Monthly Archives: December 2008

>A DOH! moment

Posted on December 31, 2008 by

>Update 2009-01-01: The first refactoring is done and attached to bug 259853. There is still more to do to break up some overly long methods, but it is now easier to test the various pieces. I have been working on … Continue reading →

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>Basic XML aware XPath assistance

Posted on December 30, 2008 by

>As discussed earlier in the End of Year Cramps entry, we had a request within XSL Tools to support being aware of the input XML file . I’ve implemented some very basic support based on the namespaces that have been … Continue reading →

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>Some thoughts on XML Processing

Posted on December 28, 2008 by

>Mukul Gandhi has collected a conversation between Michael Kay (Saxon XSLT/XQuery author), and Roger Costello of XFront.com fame, in which they discuss techniques on XML Processing in applications. I think most would agree with the following statement by Michael Kay … Continue reading →

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>End of year cramps.

Posted on December 28, 2008 by

>This is a rambling list of cramps floating around in my head, where it is head is anybody’s guess. XPath Content Assistance and Validation. One of the community members for XSL Tools made a request to have XPath Assistance, and … Continue reading →

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>Java Runtime Preference page

Posted on December 27, 2008 by

>Currently in eclipse, if you are working with a language that leverages the Java Runtime Environment to execute the code, you have to pull in the full JDT as well. However, what if you have a use case for an … Continue reading →

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>XML Project Facets

Posted on December 23, 2008 by

>A question was raised about how to enable specific functionality for XSLT imports and includes so that a specific locations could be added to be searched. This is in bug 258202. This however has started to evolve into a more … Continue reading →

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>SSE and XML Unit Test Code Coverage Report

Posted on December 22, 2008 by

>The above is a snapshot of the current code coverage of the SSE and XML unit tests in the web tools platform. The org.eclipse.coverage.tests is a plugin I created to execute the multiple suites in one run so I wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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>Designing Plugins for Reuse

Posted on December 21, 2008 by

>How reusable are your plugins? Can an adopter take just the pieces they need from your Feature set and only use select pieces in their own Feature set? Does the plugin inherit a lot of additional and possibly unneeded (by … Continue reading →

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>A Holiday Present for WTP

Posted on December 21, 2008 by

>Since it’s the holiday season, and the Web Tools Platform at eclipse has been the brunt of some of my posts about unit testing in the past, I thought I would contribute something additional back to them. Currently there are … Continue reading →

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>XForms + XSLT + AJAX = XSLTForms

Posted on December 19, 2008 by

>Client Side XSLT transformations in the browser haven’t been given much attention beyond transformations from various XML documents to HTML formats. XForms itself is not as widely known or leveraged as it probably should be, and there is even a … Continue reading →

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