Validation with Schematron

January 24, 2002 – 12:00 am

Schematron is a nifty alternative to XML Schema. Schematron is an XML language, which makes assertions about valid documents (such as an article element has a title). A schematron validator tests the assertions. A Schematron module for Perl has been released.

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Building Apache 1.3.22 on OS X.1

October 17, 2001 – 12:00 am

[ via mac.scripting.com ] How to build Apache 1.3.22 on OS X.1.

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Scripting News for Mac

October 13, 2001 – 12:00 am

Brent Simmons at Userland started a weblog devoted to scripting languages on the Mac. He’s got a mess of worthwhile links already.

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Perl module for pinging Weblogs.com

October 2, 2001 – 12:00 am

Aaron of Aaronland just published a Perl module for sending the update ping to Weblogs.com.

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Movable Type Micro CMS

September 5, 2001 – 12:00 am

Movable Type is a lightweight content management system for weblogs and journals, written in perl.

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Chronicler Web CMS

July 7, 2001 – 12:00 am

Phil Gyford’s released the Perl CGI/XML tool he uses for site management. Data’s stored in XML, and the CGI injects the payload into templates for display.

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Choosing a server side language

February 9, 2001 – 12:00 am

A plea for thinking it through before picking a server side language for Web development. Only a couple of points I’d disagree with. One, PHP is not a direct descendant of Perl. Two, I don’t think PC Labs and CNet are entirely objective since they live and die on advertising.

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xmole.net is digging the XML web

January 21, 2001 – 12:00 am

xmole.net has a listing of XML resources for PHP and Perl programmers.

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Generating PHP Class Documentation

November 15, 2000 – 12:00 am

Bard Farstad has written a Perl script that produces documentation for PHP class files in the fashion of Javadoc.

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Life, a Candy Bar, and the Law of 5’s

July 21, 2000 – 12:00 am

Back at UT Austin, our classics professor explained that the Romans considered five to be a fortutious number. With that in mind, consider this demonstration of the proposition that given the proper hash function, any text can gain mystical significance.

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Whump shows you XSL for the Real World

July 5, 2000 – 12:00 am

If you’re attending SIGS’ XML One conference in San Jose this fall, consider sitting in on my class, Monday, October 2nd, from 1 to 4pm on XSL for the Real World. I’ll be covering how to construct an XSL development environment, then working through cannonical problems. I plan to be ecumemmical and show you examples [...]

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10 Minutes to mod_perl

June 30, 2000 – 12:00 am

[ via Apacheweek ] Here’s a quick how-to on getting mod_perl running on your server. Mod_perl embeds a Perl interpreter in the Apache server enabling you to extend it via scripting.

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XSL Link

June 17, 2000 – 12:00 am

[ via XSLT.com ] Norman Walsh has a Perl script that does a lint of your XSLT style sheets.

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The Meerkat Service API

May 10, 2000 – 12:00 am

[ via Camworld ] O’Reilly Network’s published the API to their RSS headline aggregation service, Meerkat. The API allows you to fetch a view (what they call a flavor) of the data: HTML, Lightweight HTML, RSS, XML, and embeddable JavaScript. You can customize the feed by sending parameters. This is a great example of how [...]

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RSSLite Perl Module

May 3, 2000 – 12:00 am

Scott Thomason created a Perl module which allows you to parse the RSS feeds of sites who don’t have the XML well-formedness down (and that’s a lot of sites.) Use this when you’re SAX parser tosses a hairball.

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