“XSLT Project” and other links…
“The XSL Tools project is a WebTools Incubator project. The project’s goal and background can be found in the XSL Tools Proposal. Its scope is to provide basic XSL editing and debugging support to compliment and leverage the XML and source editing support within WTP.” Wonderful. So when is it coming out of the incubator? I can’t use this anyway because I am happily using Europa while this thing apparently needs Ganymede.
“The Future of XForms”
Philip Fennell: “Some of the recent talk on the Mozilla XForms Project’s mailing list (dev-tech-xforms) has been about the winding-down in effort on the Mozilla XForms plug-in. There has been praise for the efforts of those developers involved in the project, and quite rightly so. However, some people may be seeing this as a bad sign for XForms in general. Well, not so I say and the reasons for this are three-fold.”
In 2007, I wrote, “I should have evaluated XForms for some concept of what InfoPath calls the rich text box (or control). I can’t find something like this among Form Controls in the W3C spec. …Also the OpenOffice.org implementation of XForms shows no sign of the repeating field or master-detail fields. Now I have a technical understanding why InfoPath is so far from XForms and is actually closer to the hierarchical and repetitive ‘nature’ of XML (assuming you can accept XML as natural).”
“Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Running Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server”
“Using Amazon EC2 with Windows Server is similar to using Amazon EC2 with any other operating system. Amazon EC2 running Windows will provide seamless integration with existing Amazon EC2 features like Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Elastic IPs.” This was slightly interesting before the 2008 PDC… now it’s sort of interesting…
“NetBeans IDE 6.5 is available”
Petr Pisl: “Although the support for developing PHP applications is new and young, I hope that it will be useful for many PHP developers and for the PHP community too. …We did the first step. In front of us there is long way to fit as much as possible, what you need as a PHP developer.”
“Where are the XML Editors?”
Eric Larson: “First off, what I meant by a ‘generic editor’ is really much closer to the description Evan offered below in the comments. I was thinking in terms of authoring content with XML as that is one area where I strongly believe XML excels. Paul Terrey mentions, Arbortext, XMetaL, Serna, etc., which were in fact the impetus for writing this article. George Bina (from oXygen) also points out there is oXygen XML Author, which seems to fall in a similar category as that of Arbortext or XMetaL.” To me, Microsoft Word 2007 is a “consumer-level” XML editor.