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I'm doing a project with Ektron CMS400.Net right now, and that system relies pretty heavily on XSL, which I hate. I really think XSL is a tool of devil, meant just to drive me mad. But I digress. I needed a good little XSL authoring app. XMLSpy is the absolute ...

Microsoft Reinvents FrontPage, Tapping Into the Power of XML...: Microsoft may be looking to put XMLSpy and ArborText out of business with this one. There's been a big hole in the low-end editor market for real-time XSLT editing. This could be huge. "FrontPage 2003 will be the first commercially available, ...

Turn Word Into a Syndication Client: This article is about using Word 2003 as an RSS client, but it also sheds some light on the fantastic new features in Office 2003: The most visible aspect of Word's XML support is its ability to act as a native editor for XML ...

Note on December 27, 2006 A long time ago (2002-ish), I worked with Documentum. I figured out how to do something, and I posted it as this blog entry. The links to the attached files were broken for a long time, and I would get about one email a month ...

Lately, I've seen some XML backlash. XML started as a very simple markup language, but has progressively gotten more and more complicated. An entry over at Don Park's blog got me to YAML (Yet Another Markup Language) which is an alternative to XML, and from there, I found many others. ...

XSLT Questions and Answers.: I've been thrust back into the world of XSLT while I tinker with Microsoft Access as a client-based CMS. I had forgotten how frustrating XSLT can be. Effects that are so easy in any number of programming languages require reams of markup to reproduce in XSL. ...

Link Markers: CSS Generated Content: A good example of something you can do using Mozilla and Opera, but not IE. Makes me want to use XML/XSL instead of HTML.

XML Workshop Ltd. - WordML: Here are some samples of the underlying XML format in the new version of Word. Microsoft has also just released a WordML to HTML XSL convertor.

I built a small utility some time ago to do batch XSL transforms. It was both (1) an attempt to make transforming easier, and (2) an exercise to get some experience with Microsoft's woefully under-exposed HTML Application technology (can you call it a "technology"? It's just an unrestricted Web page, ...

New York Times opens up code: This is kind of cool. It s good to see an organization like the New York Times contribute some stuff to open source. The New York Times likes open source so much so that, as it gradually moves more of its print operations online, ...

Introducing Syncato: Since this thing is run using XML, this guy has written some fun XPath queries to prove his point: "A list of all pages I've ever linked to as XML," "The title of all posts made on August 14 as text," etc. "Syncato is the new Weblog system ...

Prince: Overview: There's a big gap in getting Web content into print. I've had to cross the gap a couple times, and I've both generated PDFs server-side and used CSS to style HTML into printable format. Both methods suck. Prince is a system that lets you take XML, style it ...

How do you future-proof contact information? It strikes me that, through the years, I migrate from one messaging platform to another, but I'm generally contacting the same people. My Mom is going to be my Mom no matter what email client I'm using. Probably true for my wife, too. So, ...

New XML Features in Microsoft Office Access 2003: I've talked before about how Access would make a handy client-side publishing tool, a la Radio or CityDesk. Just this week, I've been doing some Access user interface programming, and I've been impressed with how good it is in that regard. However, ...

Most developers would say that content binding is the domain of XSL. However, I've found there is a CSS property for binding arbitrary content to an element, and it's been around since 1998. Sadly, IE has no support for it, Netscape / Mozilla just partial, and apparently Opera is the ...

I ve talked a lot over the years about content modeling. Open and Closed Content Management is probably the most self-referenced post on this site. Recently I called content modeling one of the Four Disciplines of Content Management. But, lingering behind all the questions about how to model something is a ...