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ruminate
2011/06/26
Sisters Haiku
dev
2011/06/26
Org mode on your iphone
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I don't have a smart fone, just one of those bakelite nokia's (as a colleague put it) ... but if I did I would then want to use this.
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ruminate
2011/06/20
XML Monks launched
dev
2011/06/18
Marmalade repo for emacs package management
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I just recently declared 'emacs bankruptcy' and marmalade helped install all those emacs deps I have gathered up over the years. Not all packages are there, but very promising effort and well worth a try.
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xquery
2011/05/05
idiv operator in xquery
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The idiv operator returns an integer as a result, rounding toward 0 ... a bit strange but can save a few keystrokes when appropriate.
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xquery
2011/05/05
xml:id attribute needs to be unique within the specific document scope
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gist.github.com
using the fn:id() function in conjuction with xml:id's is probably not relevant if you use an XML database as you should get indexes for free using plain xpath.
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xquery
2011/05/04
xquery memoization example for use with MarkLogic
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gist.github.com
With higher order XQuery (HOX) promised for XQuery 3.0 we can now start to employ some useful algorithms, like inline caching of functions.
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xquery
2011/04/01
XQIB puts XQuery into the browser
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At XML Prague, the guys (and gals) from ETH Zurich Systems Group and FLWOR Foundation launched XQuery in the browser ... w/o a plugin!
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xslt
2011/03/31
SAXON CE puts XSLT 2.0 into the browser
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Michael Kay launched the impressive SAXON CE at xmlprague, can't wait to find time to play around with this! Check out the Knights Tour example.
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xquery
2011/03/22
Classify content with XQuery
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IBM Developerworks
XQuery is a grown up language for processing data and its high time we start bringing in NLP and textual analytics into XQuery.
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