michaelhkay
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@ Open source can undermine innovation. Slow takeup of XSLT 2.0 too much work for hobbyists, but not profitable for old-style devt.
about 13 hours ago
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Email asking for advice from niece who's an IP lawyer (brings shame to the family...). Means I can now ask her to return the favour.
about 17 hours ago
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@ [struggling with character encoding] I remember a wonderful Tripos exam question about 1971: "Why is character coding so complex?"
about 17 hours ago
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@ [I hate XSLT!] Don't worry, everyone goes through that phase. Persevere, and the light will dawn, and you will come to love it.
about 18 hours ago
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@ Only time someone has tried to pickpocket me was on the Prague metro. Sad thing was, they were so incompetent at it.
about 18 hours ago
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On the streamability of //section/head - new blog post.
4:38 PM Nov 30th
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Software patents wiki: . Please contribute.
12:42 PM Nov 30th
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All browser page requests this morning (via Virgin Media) are taking about 30 seconds to load.
3:26 AM Nov 30th
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@ Vetting volunteers: a 17yr old volunteer is treated as a vulnerable child, on her 18th birthday she becomes a dangerous adult.
2:18 AM Nov 30th
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in reply to glynmoody
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@ [how long before we say "enough"] The point about an authoritarian regime is that whatever you say, it makes no difference.
2:02 AM Nov 30th
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To Sheffield for the weekend. @ singing in Messiah, & hopefully a walk on the hills, though snow is forecast.
1:32 AM Nov 28th
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New streaming architecture in Saxon is now (finally) looking quite solid. Still a lot of work to do on the details, not to mention testing.
11:28 AM Nov 27th
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Virgin cable is down, using dongle as fallback. Taking hours to download the daily spam. Must move to server-side filtering some day.
1:21 AM Nov 27th
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RT @: "Tony Blair misled the entire country in leading us into the Iraq war". Not true. He didn't fool me.
3:49 PM Nov 26th
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@ XQuery new syntax vs functions: I agree we could use functions more, e.g. validate(). But not always, e.g. grouping
6:30 AM Nov 26th
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New blog post on streaming XSLT templates in Saxon at
2:19 AM Nov 26th
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@ [Voice recognition for programmers] Because most programmers are quite good at typing, unlike lawyers and doctors.
4:47 PM Nov 25th
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in reply to elharo
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Michael Dyck reports yet another ambiguity in the XQuery 1.1 grammar. People don't like <brackets>, but they do make XSLT easy to extend.
4:46 PM Nov 25th
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Just found a class in Saxon that I can reuse. Except that it's currently unused! Was I right to keep it?
10:10 AM Nov 25th
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Saxon: scrapped the (v.old!) XSLT pattern parser, now parse it as an XPath expression and convert the resulting expression tree.
2:50 AM Nov 25th
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- Name Michael Kay
- Location Reading, UK
- Web http://www.saxoni...
- Bio Programmer, Founder/Director of Saxonica, author of Saxon, editor of XSLT specification
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