June 2003 Archives

I started a new book today
Here's the first sentence:
Software lives at the boundary between objective and subjective reality.
More to follow.

Apparently at the same time my article I was talking about finally made its appearance at XML Extreme Column of MSDN. Here it is: "Producing Multiple Outputs from an XSL Transformation". It's about how to achieve multiple output XSLT in .NET. My first article, so any comments espacially critical ones will be greatly appreciated. Is it well-written or at least clear? Should MultiXmlTextWriter be developed further? I've been thinking about HTML output method, this can be done by creating HTMLTextWriter:XmlWriter, like System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter one, but implementing XmlWriter instead. Probably not bad idea.

Like Tim Bray has no idea what to do with RDF.net domain he owned, I recalled today I own XPath.info and XSL.info domain names for almost two years now (since .info TLD was introduced back in 2001) and the same way never done a thing with them. Why then did I register them? I don't know, there was a fever before .info were allowed and also there was sort of a lottery for the right to register .info domains, and I just filled a couple of preregistration forms and it turned out I won these two domains.

So, does anybody have any ideas what projects can be done at these domains? It would be nice to build sort of information repository at XSL.info for instance. Any volunteers, especially Web designers?

• built-in support for 60 EXSLT extension functions (huge thanks to Dare)
• support for custom extension functions
• minor bug fixes

to name a few. Well, now the simulated programmer goes back to a simulating programming :)