Contents tagged with XML
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XSLT Questions and Answers
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BitTorrent Client Shootout
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Deleting nodes in XML using Recursion
There's a good example (in C#) by Urmila Singhal on using Recursion to delete nodes in an XML document. One can delete all occurences of an XML node from an XML doc by providing a node name or with an optional attribute name of the nodes to be deleted.
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XML DataSource Controls in .NET 2.0 (Article @ O'Reilly)
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'BlogMap' new feature - Blogger neighborhood
Chandu Thota is busy adding new features to his 'BlogMap'. I utilized it to pinpoint my blog site. The new feature of 'BlogMap' shows your neighborhood of (registered) bloggers. There are three known ones within my vicinity (or click icon below) and now to get Carl Franklin in here also. -
XML Reader with Bookmarks [from MSDN]
XML Reader with Bookmarks - a great idea from MSDN, I can see its usage in traversing a XML tree with a 'breadcrumb' trail. This idea is a whole lot better than trying to make XML into a relational database.
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.NET XML Best Practices
A three-part series by Aaron Skonnard on .NET XML Best Practices [via Ken Brubaker].
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Private Syndication RSS - More than it meets the eye: Get ready to pay for content
Private Syndication (be it via RSS or other formats) is back as a discussion topic - Dare Obasanjo mentions it as a RSS Bandit feature accomodation, Tim Bray lays out some commercial value-added from EBay or your bank and Dwight Shih's 'Say No To Private Syndication'. The latter views it more as an issue of risk in privacy and trust. I view it as a "new News market" evolution - quite soon, you will pay for content from the RSS Pundits (via PayPal integrated into their weblog site of course). Feeding you expert opinions, advice and rubric that you can't get anywhere else fast.
Why so? Private syndication RSS feeds would enjoy more First Amendment freedoms like the HBO TV channel and soon, Howard Stern on Sirius satellite radio and you may get away with similar law-suits currently faced by ThinkSecret.
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Dare Obasanjo's XML Metacrap - a small note
Dare Obasanjo's recent piece on Folksonomies, Taxonomies and Metacrap (shouldn't that be Volksonomies?) would provoke cognitive psychologists and computer scientists alike. Machine representation of semantics is preceded by knowledge representation (e.g., semantic networks) first and it defines the vocabulary also. This task has been ongoing from both sides of the fence - cognition and AI. Language semantics is an extremely difficult entity to emulate - ambiguity abounds (see Wittgenstein's language thinking concepts). Machinists have had limited success in a very limited capacity - Terry Winograd's SHRDLU in the "small blocks world" is a good example. I recall working on SHRDLU (in LISP) in a grad course in the mid-80s - it was quite amazing to see the machine respond to your queries (with meaning et al).
Current effort using XML tags are also represented in Topic Maps which shows tremendous potential but that too is restricted to the "small world knowledge domain". A fine example of domain expertise in HealthCare is SNOMED which makes healthcare knowledge and terminologies more palatable to the machines. Marry SNOMED with TopicMaps and you have some promise. But this marriage should be presided and blessed by the domain experts first rather than XML-Tag-happy constructs.
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