Collected Infinitesque News

John L. Clark

Personal Backups with S3

So, Amazon's S3 service is described as providing cheap, scalable data storage for "external developers of any application". But isn't it a great solution for personal data backup, as well?

WebCap: Web-based Capability List File Format and Model

This document defines WebCap, a simple language for explicitly grouping sets of URIs having a specific relationship to one another for a particular purpose.

XHTML to XForms in XSLT 1

A new utility written in XSLT 2 blipped across my radar, and I just had to see if I could pull it in using my XSLT 1 tractor beam. No sweat; this time I didn't even have to use EXSLT.

KDE 4 Build Status

The trunk line of KDE development is being used actively for developing KDE 4, which may be released late this year or early next year. The KDE build documentation warns that "the trunk" is very buggy and may not work at all. This article describes a successful build of the current state of some KDE 4 components, and gives some building and development pointers from a newcomer's point-of-view.

An Audio Input Under Linux Success Story, a Long Time in Coming

With a lot of hand holding, I was finally able to get my soundcard to accept microphone input under Linux. Here's how.

Common Entities Converted to ML-Macros

This article highlights a set of common XML character entities that I have converted to use the ml-macro syntax.

Dropping in <!DOCTYPE>-Dropping Alternatives

A fundamental question moves one researcher to explore the future of XML with the future of XSLT, which in turn moves another researcher to explore alternate XSLT futures.

Panning for EXSLT List Gold

This document describes and tracks EXSLT issues that need attention.

Introducing AtomiXXE

This document introduces AtomiXXE, an Atom configuration for the XMLmind XML Editor.

xml:base vs. RFC 3986 Grudge Match

The spirit of the xml:base Recommendation and that of RFC 3986 are at odds with one another. The solution? A very simple new member of the URI family of specifications.

Tracing the Course of Recent XBEL Development

This document attempts to summarize activity surrounding the XBEL bookmark format since 2001.

An Overrideable Alternative to the property Function in Python

This article describes an alternative to Python's built-in property function which allows the user to override, in derived classes, the methods used by this function.

Using xmlcatalog

This article provides several example command lines as a quick reference for xmlcatalog.