Monthly Archives: September 2009

>Common Eclipse Build Failures and Causes

Posted on September 30, 2009 by

>This has been floating around for a while in my head so it’s time to shake it out. Considering I’ve been breaking the XSL Tools build recently, but everything runs fine locally, I’d thought I’d share the common failure points … Continue reading →

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>XSL Tools 1.0.2 Released

Posted on September 27, 2009 by

>XSL Tools 1.0.2 maintenance release is now out, along with the eclipse Galileo SR1 (service release). This release contains a couple of fixes: bug 279793 – All XSLT 2.0 has validation errors in xslt-2.0.xsd. bug 281421 – [editor] StringIndexOutOfBounds exeception. … Continue reading →

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>XSLT Processor Extensions Part III

Posted on September 25, 2009 by

>In Part II, I introduced the new org.eclipse.wst.xsl.ui.contentAssistProcessor extension point. Which allows adopters to contribute their own content assistance to the XSLT Editor. How does one implement this, and what classes are available to make this easier to implement? With … Continue reading →

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>Builds: We make them complicated – Follow Up

Posted on September 24, 2009 by

>So, my recent blog posting stirred some feathers, started some good discussions, and basically stimulated some creative brain cells. A couple of things that I noticed coming out of the discussion: People tend to view the world through Eclipse as … Continue reading →

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>XSLT Processor Extensions Part II

Posted on September 23, 2009 by

>In Part I we looked at a way to extend the XSL Tools editor to handle new XSLT elements that are processor specific. This was done using the WTP’s ability to load grammars and use them during content assistance. This … Continue reading →

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>XSLT Processor Extensions

Posted on September 18, 2009 by

>A recent question on the Eclipse Web Tools Platform newsgroup asked how to make the XSL Tools editor in WTP 3.1 aware of custom extensions. One proposed solution is to use the XML Editor’s template support and add them. However, … Continue reading →

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>Builds: We make them complicated.

Posted on September 15, 2009 by

> The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves… Ed Merks gave a talk about Builds and Provisioning. How programmers hate and love them. While I agree with many aspects, I think some of the conclusions … Continue reading →

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>Standards, Documentation, Single Sourcing, and Continuous Integration

Posted on September 15, 2009 by

>Over the last several years I’ve had the pleasure of working with many standard organizations. Many are trying to improve their development processes to meet the membership and the communities needs sooner. However, almost all have one area that still … Continue reading →

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>A Hudson Transition

Posted on September 12, 2009 by

>Working for a small company means you get to wear many different technology hats. Currently, I’m wearing my Build Engineer’s hat. Along with this hat comes the skill of a plate spinner. Keeping multiple systems building, and outputting effectively is … Continue reading →

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>Messy Syntax??

Posted on September 8, 2009 by

>XML programming languages like XProc, XSLT, and even XQuery get a bad rap at times from programmers. Mainly because there are lots of xml tags and xml namespace prefixes that are used within these languages. XQuery being more popular because … Continue reading →

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