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Integrated Planet Roller

posted 09:35PM Mar 10, 2005 with tags by Lars Trieloff

Dave Johnson has deployed a test version of the integrated Planet Roller tool at http://rollerweblogger.org/planet.do. I will migrate from Planet Tool to integrated Planet Roller as soon as Roller 1.1 is released.

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Maven book

posted 01:17PM Mar 10, 2005 with tags by Lars Trieloff

Vincent Massol and Timothy O'Brien are going to write a book on Apache Maven for O'Reilly.

XQuery is XML Query Language,

posted 10:11AM Mar 10, 2005 with tags by Lars Trieloff

not XML Transformation Language. The article Comparing XSLT and XQuery uses a problem tailored at XSLT to compare XSLT and XQuery. If your task involves transforming a complete document into a HTML or XML representation, you should certainly use XSLT. If your task is to extract some parts of a document and rearrange contents to match an application-specific XML vocabulary, you should use XQuery.

Transforming a complete document requires to load the complete document into memory. If you just want to extract some parts, the XQuery-processor can easily leverage XML-indexes and speed up the transformation.

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Operize your Firefox

posted 10:07AM Mar 10, 2005 with tags by Lars Trieloff

FirefoxOpera presents a collection of Firefox extensions to match the features of the Opera Browser. Even the Opera adbar is supported. (via Blake Ross)

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