As my holiday winds down (Happy New Year, by the way!), I’ve published one more XML Calabash 3.x release. I’ve also started pushing them to a snapshots repository.

Using iXML to parse a command line interface.

That sure is a dull title. If I cared about “engagement”, I’d find a way to stick “interactive XProc pipeline debugger” or “Schematron assertions in pipelines” into it. But I don’t, really. Care that is. ’s all true, though.

The story of XML Calabash 3.x has some twists and turns, but the last few alphas have passed all the tests and it’s finally possible to start thinking about some of the fun things.

This is a feature-free update that (mostly) just nudges the dependencies forward. I believe it also supports either .NET6 or .NET8.

Version 2.5.0 of the stylesheets is a major release with some (maybe) backwards incompatible changes.

You want the one with the dash, not the one with the underscore. I think.

A very (very) small update to the NineML family of parsing tools.

Still pushing forward. Small fixes and one new feature.

Getting closer to a pushing 6.1.0 as a no-longer-in-beta version of the XML Resolver.

Balisage 2024 is next week! It’s entirely virtual so anyone can attend! Here, have a calendar!

When Xerces resolves a URI on Windows, it does it…differently than on Linux and MacOS. And incorrectly.

Not well. And not much. But not nothing!

The Atom feeds are unbroken now.

It’s official, we made it.

Several new features and bug fixes for your DocBook transformation needs!

The first “real” releases of XML Resolver 6.x have been published.

Working on the C# implementation of the XML Resolver was instructive. It instructed me that the new design was kind of a mess and the Java implementation of that design was also…bad. So I’ve fixed that.

TIL: Browsing (the web) in Emacs (in a couple of senses) really works well.

Random notes from my unsuccessful attempt to get this weblog onto Mastodon.

A few thoughts on standing up web services with better isolation (i.e., with less chance that I’ll shoot myself in the foot.)

I understand the motivation behind HTTPS, and I support the idea of a more secure web. But 🙄.

TIL: You can’t copy photos out of the Apple cloud by finding them on your local hard drive.

A breezy walk along Swansea bay.

Tweaks to my -primary command line switch for Emacs.

TIL: How to copy photos out of the Apple cloud.

Making Java work with a specific version of Unicode, at least for NineML.

TIL: Java 11 supports Unicode 10.0 with two extensions. With. Two. Extensions.

Normal service has been restored. My AWS lambda works again.

Experiments in optimization of my iXML processor.