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My Newest Hack: Searchable OPML directories

Friday, December 16th, 2005

For the last few days I have been trying to put together a list of resources on a specific topic all over the Internet AND make them all searchable (kind of like Google's special searches). What I came up instead is the following: 1. I put the list of resources in ...

Running Xalan on JDK 1.5

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

Recently I have noticed that my XSLT testing with Apache Xalan suddenly stopped working. A further investigation revealed that this was caused by the fact that JDK 1.5 no longer ships with Xalan, but includes XSLTC instead. Unfortunatly for me I needed to use Xalan so this is how I ...

How To Wrap Text in a Table Cell with XSLT

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

As a followup to yesterday's post, here is how I am wrapping text via XSLT as opposed to CSS and JavaScript. The reason why I am prefering to do this server side via XSLT as opposed to JavaScript client-side is because if I will be doing client-side JavaScripts, I would ...

XSL-FO vs. CSS

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

I just saw An article on XML.com (via SlashDot) discussing how CSS stylesheets can work better for printing than XSL-FO (as a rebuttal to a post by Norman Walsh). As a proof, the authors show a 100 line CSS stylesheet that accomplishes the same thing as a 1,000 XSL-FO stylesheet ...

UPS Tracking via RSS, Take Two

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

Following up on an earlier post about UPS tracking via JavaScript, I cooked up an alternative server-side RSS tracker via XSLT similar to this one. I used two XSLT templates to create the XML request for UPS and format the response into RSS. I also made a Perl wrapper that ...