Archive for the ‘XSLT’ Category

XMLQuire Web Edition

Sunday, March 17th, 2013

XMLQuire Web Edition: A Free XSLT 2.0 Editor for the Web

From the webpage:

XSLT 2.0 processing within the browser is now a reality with the introduction of the open source Saxon-CE from Saxonica. This processor runs as a JavaScript app and supports JavaScript interoperability and user-event handling for the era of HTML5 and the dynamic web.

This Windows product, XMLQuire, is an XSLT edtior specially extended to integrate with Saxon-CE and support the Saxon-CE language extensions that make interactive XSLT possible. Saxon-CE is not included with this product, but is available from Saxonica here.

*nix folks will have to install Windows 7 or 8 on a VM to take advantage of this software.

Worth the effort if for no other reason than to see how the market majority lives. ;-)

I first saw this in a tweet by Michael Kay.

Posted in HTML5, Saxon, XML, XSLT | 2 Comments »

Lux

Saturday, March 16th, 2013

Lux

From the readme:

Lux is an open source XML search engine formed by fusing two excellent technologies: the Apache Lucene/Solr search index and the Saxon XQuery/XSLT processor.

At its core, Lux provides XML-aware indexing, an XQuery 1.0 optimizer that rewrites queries to use the indexes, and a function library for interacting with Lucene via XQuery. These capabilities are tightly integrated with Solr, and leverage its application framework in order to deliver a REST service and application server.

The REST service is accessible to applications written in almost any language, but it will be especially convenient for developers already using Solr, for whom Lux operates as a Solr plugin that provides query services using the same REST APIs as other Solr search plugins, but using a different query language (XQuery). XML documents may be inserted (and updated) using standard Solr REST calls: XML-aware indexing is triggered by the presence of an XML-aware field in a document. This means that existing application frameworks written in many different languages are positioned to use Lux as a drop-in capability for indexing and querying semi-structured content.

The application server is a great way to get started with Lux: it provides the ability to write a complete application in XQuery and XSLT with data storage backed by Lucene.

If you are looking for experience with XQuery and Lucene/Solr, look no further!

May be a good excuse for me to look at defining equivalence statements using XQuery.

I first saw this in a tweet by Michael Kay.

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“…XML User Interfaces” As in Using XML?

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

International Symposium on Native XML user interfaces

This came across the wire this morning and I need your help interpreting it.

Why would you want to have an interface to XML?

All these years I have been writing XML in Emacs because XML wasn’t supposed to have an interface.

Brave hearts, male, female and unknown, struggling with issues too obscure for mere mortals.

Now I find that isn’t supposed to be so? You can imagine my reaction.

I moved my laptop a bit closer to the peat fire to make sure I read it properly. Waiting for the ox cart later this week to take my complaint to the local bishop about this disturbing innovation.

;-)

15 March 2013 — Peer review applications due
19 April 2013 — Paper submissions due
19 April 2013 — Applications due for student support awards due
21 May 2013 — Speakers notified
12 July 2013 — Final papers due
5 August 2013 — International Symposium on Native XML user interfaces
6–9 August 2013 — Balisage: The Markup Conference

International Symposium on
Native XML user interfaces

Monday August 5, 2013 Hotel Europa, Montréal, Canada

XML is everywhere. It is created, gathered, manipulated, queried, browsed, read, and modified. XML systems need user interfaces to do all of these things. How can we make user interfaces for XML that are powerful, simple to use, quick to develop, and easy to maintain?

How are we building user interfaces today? How can we build them tomorrow? Are we using XML to drive our user interfaces? How?

This one-day symposium is devoted to the theory and practice of user interfaces for XML: the current state of implementations, practical case studies, challenges for users, and the outlook for the future development of the technology.

Relevant topics include:

  • Editors customized for specific purposes or users
  • User interfaces for creation, management, and use of XML documents
  • Uses of XForms
  • Making tools for creation of XML textual documents
  • Using general-purpose user-interface libraries to build XML interfaces
  • Looking at XML, especially looking at masses of XML documents
  • XML, XSLT, and XQuery in the browser
  • Specialized user interfaces for specialized tasks
  • XML vocabularies for user-interface specification

Presentations can take a variety of forms, including technical papers, case studies, and tool demonstrations (technical overviews, not product pitches).

This is the same conference I wrote about in: Markup Olympics (Balisage) [No Drug Testing].

In times of lean funding for conferences, if you go to a conference this year, it really should be Balisage.

You will be the envy of your co-workers and have tales to tell your grandchildren.

Not bad for one conference registration fee.

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Markup Olympics (Balisage) [No Drug Testing]

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

Markup athletes take heart! Unlike venues that intrude into the personal lives of competitors, there are no, repeat no drug tests for presenters at Balisage!

Fear no trainer betrayals or years of being dogged by second-raters in the press.

Eat, drink, visit, ???, present, in the company of your peers.

The more traditional call for participation, yawn, has the following details:

Dates:

15 March 2013 – Peer review applications due
19 April 2013 – Paper submissions due
19 April 2013 – Applications due for student support awards due
21 May 2013 – Speakers notified
12 July 2013 – Final papers due

5 August 2013 – Pre-conference Symposium on XForms
6-9 August 2013 – Balisage: The Markup Conference

From the call:

Balisage is where people interested in descriptive markup meet each year in August for informed technical discussion, occasionally impassioned debate, good coffee, and the incomparable ambience of one of North America’s greatest cities, Montreal. We welcome anyone interested in discussing the use of descriptive markup to build strong, lasting information systems.

Practitioner or theorist, tool-builder or tool-user, student or lecturer — you are invited to submit a paper proposal for Balisage 2013. As always, papers at Balisage can address any aspect of the use of markup and markup languages to represent information and build information systems. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

  • XML and related technologies
  • Non-XML markup languages
  • Big Data and XML
  • Implementation experience with XML parsing, XSLT processors, XQuery processors, XML databases, XProc integrations, or any markup-related technology
  • Semantics, overlap, and other complex fundamental issues for markup languages
  • Case studies of markup design and deployment
  • Quality of information in markup systems
  • JSON and XML
  • Efficiency of Markup Software
  • Markup systems in and for the mobile web
  • The future of XML and of descriptive markup in general
  • Interesting applications of markup

In addition, please consider becoming a Peer Reviewer. Reviewers play a critical role towards the success of Balisage. They review blind submissions — on topics that interest them — for technical merit, interest, and applicability. Your comments and recommendations can assist the Conference Committee in creating the program for Balisage 2013!

How:

More IQ per square foot than any other conference you will attend in 2013!

Posted in Conferences, XML, XML Database, XML Schema, XPath, XQuery, XSLT | 3 Comments »

Balisage 2013 – Dates/Location

Tuesday, November 20th, 2012

Tommie Usdin just posted email with the Balisage 2013 dates and location:

Montreal, Hotel Europa, August 5 – 9 , 2013

Hope that works with everything else.

That’s the entire email so I don’t know what was meant by:

Hope that works with everything else.

Short of it being your own funeral, open-heart surgery or giving birth (to your first child), I am not sure what “everything else” there could be?

You get a temporary excuse for the second two cases and a permanent excuse for the first one.

Now’s a good time to hint about plane fare plus hotel and expenses for Balisage as a stocking stuffer.

And to wish a happy holiday Tommie Usdin and to all the folks at Mulberry Technology who make Balisage possible all of us. Each and every one.

Posted in Conferences, XML, XML Database, XML Query Rewriting, XML Schema, XPath, XQuery, XSLT, XTM | No Comments »

Using the flickr XML/API as a source of RSS feeds

Saturday, August 4th, 2012

Using the flickr XML/API as a source of RSS feeds by Pierre Lindenbaum.

Pierre has created an XSLT stylesheet to transform XML from flickr into an RSS feed.

Something for your data harvesting recipe box.

Posted in Data, XML, XSLT | No Comments »

Are You Going to Balisage?

Friday, June 1st, 2012

To the tune of “Are You Going to Scarborough Fair:”

Are you going to Balisage?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
Remember me to one who is there,
she once was a true love of mine.

Tell her to make me an XML shirt,
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
Without any seam or binary code,
Then she shall be a true lover of mine.

….

Oh, sorry! There you will see:

  • higher-order functions in XSLT
  • Schematron to enforce consistency constraints
  • relation of the XML stack (the XDM data model) to JSON
  • integrating JSON support into XDM-based technologies like XPath, XQuery, and XSLT
  • XML and non-XML syntaxes for programming languages and documents
  • type introspection in XQuery
  • using XML to control processing in a document management system
  • standardizing use of XQuery to support RESTful web interfaces
  • RDF to record relations among TEI documents
  • high-performance knowledge management system using an XML database
  • a corpus of overlap samples
  • an XSLT pipeline to translate non-XML markup for overlap into XML
  • comparative entropy of various representations of XML
  • interoperability of XML in web browsers
  • XSLT extension functions to validate OCL constraints in UML models
  • ontological analysis of documents
  • statistical methods for exploring large collections of XML data

Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information. Participants typically include XML users, librarians, archivists, computer scientists, XSLT and XQuery programmers, implementers of XSLT and XQuery engines and other markup-related software, Topic-Map enthusiasts, semantic-Web evangelists, members of the working groups which define the specifications, academics, industrial researchers, representatives of governmental bodies and NGOs, industrial developers, practitioners, consultants, and the world’s greatest concentration of markup theorists. Discussion is open, candid, and unashamedly technical.

The Balisage 2012 Program is now available at: http://www.balisage.net/2012/Program.html

Posted in Conferences, RDF, RDFa, Semantic Web, XML, XML Database, XML Schema, XPath, XQuery, XSLT | No Comments »

Destination: Montreal!

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

If you remember the Saturday afternoon sci-fi movies, Destination: …., then you will appreciate the title for this post. ;-)

Tommie Usdin and company just posted: Balisage 2012 Call for Late-breaking News, written in torn bodice style:

The peer-reviewed part of the Balisage 2012 program has been scheduled (and will be announced in a few days). A few slots on the Balisage program have been reserved for presentation of “Late-breaking” material.

Proposals for late-breaking slots must be received by June 15, 2012. Selection of late-breaking proposals will be made by the Balisage conference committee, instead of being made in the course of the regular peer-review process.

If you have a presentation that should be part of Balisage, please send a proposal message as plain-text email to info@balisage.net.

In order to be considered for inclusion in the final program, your proposal message must supply the following information:

  • The name(s) and affiliations of all author(s)/speaker(s)
  • The email address of the presenter
  • The title of the presentation
  • An abstract of 100-150 words, suitable for immediate distribution
  • Disclosure of when and where, if some part of this material has already been presented or published
  • An indication as to whether the presenter is comfortable giving a conference presentation and answering questions in English about the material to be presented
  • Your assurance that all authors are willing and able to sign the Balisage Non-exclusive Publication Agreement (http://www.balisage.net/BalisagePublicationAgreement.pdf) with respect to the proposed presentation

In order to be in serious contention for inclusion in the final program, your proposal should probably be either a) really late-breaking (it happened in the last month or two) or b) a paper, an extended paper proposal, or a very long abstract with references. Late-breaking slots are few and the competition is fiercer than for peer-reviewed papers. The more we know about your proposal, the better we can appreciate the quality of your submission.

Please feel encouraged to provide any other information that could aid the conference committee as it considers your proposal, such as a detailed outline, samples, code, and/or graphics. We expect to receive far more proposals than we can accept, so it’s important that you send enough information to make your proposal convincing and exciting. (This material may be attached to the email message, if appropriate.)

The conference committee reserves the right to make editorial changes in your abstract and/or title for the conference program and publicity. (emphasis added to last sentence)

Read that last sentence again!

“The conference committee reserves the right to make editorial changes in your abstract and/or title for the conference program and publicity.”

The conference committee might change your abstract and/or title to say something …. controversial? ….attention getting? ….CNN / Slashdot worthy?

Bring it on!

Submit late breaking proposals!

Please!

Posted in Conferences, XML, XML Data Clustering, XML Query Rewriting, XML Schema, XPath, XQuery, XSLT | No Comments »

Would You Know “Good” XML If It Bit You?

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

XML is a pale imitation of a markup language. It has resulted in real horrors across the markup landscape. After years in its service, I don’t have much hope of that changing.

But, the Princess of the Northern Marches has organized a war council to consider how to stem the tide of bad XML. Despite my personal misgivings, I wish them well and invite you to participate as you see fit.

Oh, and I found this message about the council meeting:

International Symposium on Quality Assurance and Quality Control in XML

Monday August 6, 2012
Hotel Europa, Montréal, Canada

Paper submissions due April 20, 2012.

A one-day discussion of issues relating to Quality Control and Quality Assurance in the XML environment.

XML systems and software are complex and constantly changing. XML documents are highly varied, may be large or small, and often have complex life-cycles. In this challenging environment quality is difficult to define, measure, or control, yet the justifications for using XML often include promises or implications relating to quality.

We invite papers on all aspects of quality with respect to XML systems, including but not limited to:

  • Defining, measuring, testing, improving, and documenting quality
  • Quality in documents, document models, software, transformations, or queries
  • Case studies in the control of quality in an XML environment
  • Theoretical or practical approaches to measuring quality in XML
  • Does the presence of XML, XML schemas, and XML tools make quality checking easier, harder, or even different from other computing environments
  • Should XML transforms and schemas be QAed as software? Or configuration files? Or documents? Does it matter?

Paper submissions due April 20, 2012.

Details at: http://www.balisage.net/QA-QC/

You do have to understand the semantics of even imitation markup languages before mapping them with more robust languages. Enjoy!

Posted in Uncategorized, XML, XML Schema, XPath, XQuery, XSLT | 2 Comments »

XML Prague 2012 (proceedings)

Sunday, February 12th, 2012

XML Prague 2012 (proceedings) (PDF)

Fourteen papers by the leading lights in the XML world covering everything from XProc and XQuery to NVDL and JSONiq, and places in between.

Put it on your XML reading list.

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Balisage 2011 – Final Program

Friday, July 1st, 2011

A recent post from Tommie Usdin announce the following additions to the Balisage 2011 program:

  • XQuery and SparQL
  • XQuery and XSLT
  • the Logical Form of a Metadata Record
  • Why is XML a pain to produce?
  • XML Serialization of C# and Java Objects
  • testing XSLT in continuous integration
  • dealing with markup without using words
  • REST for document resource nodes
  • tagging journal article supplemental materials
  • using 15 year old SGML documents in current software

and then goes on to talk about why markup geeks should be at Balisage.

I’ll make that shorter:

If you see either < or > at work or anyone talks about them, you need to be at Balisage 2011.

If you are not a markup geek, you will be one by the time you leave. Road to Damascus sort of experience. Or you will decide to move to San Francisco. Either way, what do you have to lose?

August 2-5, 2011, Montreal, Canada Time is running out!

Posted in Conferences, XPath, XSLT | 2 Comments »

Six Drafts Published Related to XSLT, XQuery, XPath (21 June 2011)

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

Six Drafts Published Related to XSLT, XQuery, XPath (21 June 2011)

From the post:

Has anyone compared the addressing capabilities of XQuery to HyTime?

Posted in XPath, XQuery, XSLT | No Comments »

Balisage 2011 Preliminary Program

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

At-A-Glance

Program (in full)

From the announcement (Tommie Usdin):

Topics this year include:

  • multi-ended hypertext links
  • optimizing XSLT and XQuery processing
  • interchange, interoperability, and packaging of XML documents
  • eBooks and epub
  • overlapping markup and related topics
  • visualization
  • encryption
  • data mining

The acronyms this year include:

XML XSLT XQuery XDML REST XForms JSON OSIS XTemp RDF SPARQL XPath

New this year will be:

Lightning talks: an opportunity for participants to say what they think, simply, clearly, and persuasively.

As I have said before, simply the best conference of the year!

Conference site: http://www.balisage.net/

Registration: http://www.balisage.net/registration.html

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Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

A new edition of Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath by Ken Holman is out.

While not topic map specific, ;-) , this is one of the two resources you need for transformations getting to (or from) topic maps using XSLT and XPath. The other one, would be: XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0: programmer’s reference. (You can also use both of these for non-topic map, XML based work.)

While your looking at Ken’s training resources, note his series on UBL (Universal Business Language).

I mention that because the greater the exposure of business systems the greater the need for the mapping of semantics (that means topic maps).

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