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1.5 talks at XML Prague 2010

Inasmuch as I was fortunate to again be selected to present or co-present two talks, I will be at XML Prague again this year. Going to a technical XML conference, in Prague, in the Spring, again, will be good; presenting the same number of talks as last year is just a bonus.

The talks are:

  • What XSL 2.0 means for implementers and users — Discusses the changes that will have to take place under the hood of any XSL formatter that supports XSL 2.0 and what those additional capabilities can bring to your stylesheets.
  • Real time, all the time, ragtime XML — An update on the capabilities of Xcruciate.
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Reading JIS X 4051 online

Inasmuch as the “Requirements for Japanese Text Layout” Note refers (and defers) a lot to JIS X 4051, “Formatting Rules for Japanese documents”, it is helpful to also read it (or, for some of us at least, to look at the diagrams and puzzle through some of the text). You can buy the printed book from the Japanese Standards Association Web Store, or you can view (but not print) the PDF version within your browser. Here’s how: Continue reading “Reading JIS X 4051 online”

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XSpec

I forgot to mention that I’m also a member of the project for Jeni Tennison’s XSpec project at http://xspec.googlecode.com/, which is a Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework for XSLT. Mind you, the few changes that I have made would only count as gilding the lily.

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Break your own tests

Some days you may be the best XSLT exponent on the planet; other days you may make a simple mistake and not realise it.

Particularly when you are writing tests after someone else wrote the stylesheet, if you find yourself on a roll with all your new tests coming up green first time, it can be useful to occasionally break a working test a little so that it’s bound to fail. Continue reading “Break your own tests”