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Client side XSLT brings live to static HTML pages and microformats

June 30, 2006 – 9:20 am

I am making all kind of tests for the chapter about multimedia of our upcoming Web 2.0 book and as it is often the case when I am writing, this is sparkling a number of strange ideas.
I was exploring the similarities between playlists, podcasts and SMIL animation when it occurred to me that it might [...]

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Too many SVG profiles

June 15, 2006 – 9:40 am

Our upcoming Web 2.0 book is giving me the opportunity to have a closer look to the state of SVG.
After all kind of announcements for native SVG support in browsers, I was expecting that with my new Ubuntu Dapper distribution, SVG would be really easy to display.
The first thing I have tested is to display [...]

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Web 2.0 at XML Prague

June 12, 2006 – 2:19 pm

This coming week-end, I’ll have the pleasure to be at XML Prague, a small and friendly XML conference in a wonderful city.
This year, I’ll leave out my usual XML schema languages expert hat to speak on two topics:

An experience to define a RDF/XML Query By Example language. This presentation relates a very cool project that [...]

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Normalizing Excel’s SpreadsheetML using XSLT - Part 2

June 7, 2006 – 4:00 pm

As reported by one of the comments, there was a bug in the XSLT transformation which “normalizes” Excel’s SpreadsheetML documents that I had posted in a previous post.
I have fixed this bug and the new version is:
<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<!–

Adapted from http://ewbi.blogs.com/develops/2004/12/normalize_excel.html

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The influence of microformats on style-free stylesheets

June 2, 2006 – 10:05 pm

It’s been a while, almost six years, since I have written my Style-free XSLT Style Sheets piece for XML.com but this simple technique remains one of my favorite.
It has not only been my first article published on XML.com but also the subject of my first talk in an IDEAlliance XML conference and it’s fair to [...]

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Web 2.0 the book

June 2, 2006 – 10:24 am

One of the reasons I have been too busy to blog these days is the project to write a comprehensive book about Web 2.0 technologies.
If Web 2.0 is about using the web as a platform, this platform is far from being homogeneous. On the contrary, it is made of a number of very different pieces [...]

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