Category Archives: XML

When MVC becomes a burden for XForms

XForms describes itself as a MVC architecture: An XForm allows processing of data to occur using three mechanisms: a declarative model composed of formulae for data calculations and constraints, data type and other property declarations, and data submission parameters a view … Continue reading

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XML Prague 2013

XML Prague is over… As usual it’s very difficult to go back to work after these three intense days of deeply technical friendly exchange. The feeling is well known by attendees and has been described by Alex Milowski has Post … Continue reading

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Installing Orbeon Forms, Tomcat and your application side by side on Ubuntu

One of the huge benefits of Debian based distributions (such as Ubuntu) is their packaging system that let you apply security updates on all the software that is installed on your system through a single command. It is a strong … Continue reading

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Toward χίμαιραλ/superset

Background Up to now, my approach to explore possible solutions to support JSON in XDM has been to evaluate the proposal to introduce maps in XSLT 3.0, leading to the χίμαιραλ proposal. Finding out that in the current XSLT 3.0 … Continue reading

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Fleshing the XDM chimera

Note: this article is derived from the presentation I have given at Balisage (precedings). See also the slides (and video) used during this presentation. Abstract The XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.0 (XDM) is the kernel of the XML ecosystem. … Continue reading

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Test driven XML development

Can test driven development be applied to XML technologies? to XSLT? to XML schema languages? XML pipelines? This is the topic of the poster I am presenting this year at the Balisage conference. For those of you who are not … Continue reading

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Schema test driven development

Note: this article is derived from the presentation I have given at the International Symposium on Quality Assurance and Quality Control in XML (precedings). Abstract Ever modified an XML schema? Ever broken something while fixing a bug or adding a … Continue reading

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Using XSLTUnit with XSLT 2.0

The latest version of XSLTUnit (v0.2) is from January 2002 and people sometimes ask me if the project is dead and when XSLTUnit will support XSLT 2.0. The short answer is that you can already use XSLTUnit with XSLT 2.0. … Continue reading

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More musings on XDM 3.0

Note: these are musings and should not be taken as a concrete proposal! Balisage’s tag line is “there is nothing so practical as a good theory”. I love Balisage but my brain doesn’t really work like that and its tag … Continue reading

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XDM Maps should be first class citizens

Note: This issue has been submitted to the W3C as #16118. The XPath/XQuery/XSLT 3.0 Data model distinguishes three types of information items: Nodes that directly relate to the XML Infoset with some information borrowed from the PSVI. Functions Atomic types. … Continue reading

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