Category Archives: xpath

Xalan Commit Analysis

Posted on June 12, 2011 by kingargyle

I’ve blogged a couple of times about the state of the Xalan-J project at Apache.   Recently I’ve been using Ohloh.net to track some other projects, in particular the committer activity.    For Xalan, here is a graph that displays … Continue reading →

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>XPath Component

Posted on August 12, 2010 by kingargyle

>Web Tools Source Editing has created a new component for the XPath related items. This means that the XPath View, Content Assistance, and the PsychoPath Processor now have a more distinct place to file features and bugs against. The XPath … Continue reading →

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>PsychoPath Processor Invades Apache!

Posted on June 24, 2010 by kingargyle

>With all the concentration on the Eclipse Helios release today, something quietly happened earlier in the week that is pretty significant. Xerces-J 2.10 has been released. Why is this significant to those in eclipse land. Because the PsychoPath XPath 2.0 … Continue reading →

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>PsychoPath Processor code Available on GitHub

Posted on May 24, 2010 by kingargyle

>The PsychoPath XPath 2.x processor’s source code is now available on GitHub as well. This is a snapshot of the 1.1 version that will be with the eclipse Helios release. http://github.com/kingargyle/PsychoPath-XPath-2-Processor Clone the repository, and check out the xpath2proj branch. … Continue reading →

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>PsychoPath XPath 2.0 version 1.1 Milestone 6

Posted on March 16, 2010 by kingargyle

>Milestone 6 of the PsychoPath XPath 2.0 processor is now available. I missed making the announcement last time when Milestone 5 was available, so here is a combined list of bugs that have been fixed with Milestone 5 and Milestone … Continue reading →

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>PsychoPath is a Fast Demon

Posted on March 2, 2010 by kingargyle

>I was pinged today on twitter by John Snelson asking if I had been running the XQuery test suite against a XPath 2.0 processor. Those that have been following along know about my battle with a demon known as PsychoPath. … Continue reading →

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>Refactoring: Leveraging Polymorphism

Posted on December 28, 2009 by kingargyle

>While working on some enhancements to bring the PsychoPath Processor’s implementation of the ElementTest and AttributeTest methods into compliance with the spec, I ran across the following bit of code: if (ktest instanceof DocumentTest) _type_class = DocType.class;else if (ktest instanceof … Continue reading →

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>PsychoPath XPath 2.0 Processor 1.1M4

Posted on December 17, 2009 by kingargyle

>PsychoPath 1.1M4 a Java 5 (1.5) or greater XPath 2.0 Schema Aware processor is now available. It is packaged in two forms as standalone jar and as part of an eclipse P2 update site. It does depend on java_cup and … Continue reading →

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>+2 Broadsword

Posted on December 4, 2009 by kingargyle

>In my never ending battle with a demon. I’ve added a new weapon to my arsenal. FindBugs. Others have blogged about this tool, and expounded its virtues, and so I thought I’d give it a run. The screenshot below is … Continue reading →

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>Say What?!?!!!

Posted on November 26, 2009 by kingargyle

>I wrote the other day about some Testing Cramps. One of the comments in regards to the post was why didn’t I just write the tests and contribute them back? The thing is I have done so for some projects, … Continue reading →

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