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18 May 2022

Published by Norman Walsh

So. I’m starting over.

This weblog⊕ is my space to ramble on in bursts longer than 140 characters. The opinions are my own^†. If you’d like to follow along, you can subscribe to one or more of several feeds. Or just click the links below, that works too. So does searching.

18 May 2022 at 08:34 UTC

Unsatisfied with the slim chance of a random asteroid strike, humans have decided to consider going to the moon, extracting tons of mineral ores, and throwing them into Earth’s gravity well. What could possibly go wrong?

Recent posts

DocBook xslTNG 1.7.0-xx released 09 Apr 2022
In DocBook, XSLT: New DocBook xslTNG stylesheet release(s).
(Invisible) XML and names 09 Apr 2022
In InvisibleXML, XML: Names and the characters they contain.
Announcing NineML 29 Mar 2022
In InvisibleXML, NineML, XML: A suite of tools for working with Invisible XML.
XML Calabash 2.99.11 12 Dec 2021
In XMLCalabash: XML Calabash passes a hair over 96% of the test suite and, for the first time ever, has fewer than 100 failing tests.
ixml with PEP? 05 Nov 2021
In XML: Inspired by the discussions of ixml at Declarative Amsterdam, I did a little tinkering.
My first real XProc 3.0 pipeline 25 Oct 2021
In XMLCalabash, XMLCalabash, XProc: It is a funny irony that a language implementor does not necessarily write the most interesting examples of the language they’re implementing.
XML Calabash 3.0 Milestone 07 Oct 2021
In XMLCalabash: XML Calabash passes more than 90% of the test suite.
Home Assistant 19 Sep 2021
In HomeAutomation: A brief suvey of my HA setup and a few automations.
Ding dong! 08 Sep 2021 (updated 15 Sep 2021)
In HomeAutomation, RaspberryPi: “There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow; There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, Jim!”
Break my code! 01 Sep 2021
In DotNet, XML, XMLResolver: You are cordially invited to try out the C# release of XML Resolver. It seems to work and I’m not aware of any serious bugs, but in terms of expectation setting, bear in mind that it’s version 0.1.0!
XML Unicode 1.25 29 Aug 2021
In Emacs, XML: I’ve updated my Emacs package for inserting arbitrary Unicode characters.
XML Resolver 3.1.0 released 27 Aug 2021
In XML, XMLResolver: I’ve pushed a 3.1.0 release of the XML Resolver.
Making it up as I go along 24 Aug 2021
In DotNet: URIs for files inside ZIP archives on .NET. I think.
ZIP files as XML Catalogs 12 Aug 2021
In XML, XMLResolver: Schemas and other resources are often distributed in ZIP files. Now you can just point the resolver at them.
Balisage 2021 ICS Calendar 31 Jul 2021
In Balisage: Balisage starts today! Here’s an ICS file for the sessions and a few notes about how it was created.
Extending for interoperability? 28 Jul 2021
In DotNet, XML, XMLResolver: Considering support for ZIP files on the catalog path in the XML Resolver.
GetEntity 23 Jul 2021
In DotNet: The .NET System.Xml.XmlResolver API’s GetEntity method returns the resolved entity as an unadorned Stream. That is an unfortunate design choice.
Improving parallelism 23 Jul 2021
In XProc: Exploring the trade-offs between user expectations and performance in XProc pipelines.
System.Xml.XmlResolver 06 Jul 2021
In DotNet: This .NET API is fundamentally broken. If anyone reading this thinks it might be possible to persuade someone to fix it, I’d be happy to help.
Java configurations 05 Jul 2021
In Java, Python: A tool for managing the configurations (dependencies and the classpath, system properties, etc.) of Java applications.
XML Resolver 3.0.1 released 04 Jul 2021
In XML, XMLResolver: I’ve pushed a 3.0.1 release of the XML Resolver.
Gradle DockerContainer plugin 29 Jun 2021
In Docker, Gradle: These days, I mostly use Gradle to manage builds and Docker to manage containers. So how do I manage Docker from Gradle? With this plugin.
Annotating the XML Catalogs specification 28 Jun 2021
In DocBook, XMLResolver: A few notes on the production of an annotated XML Catalogs specification.
C# static initializers 24 Jun 2021
In CSharp, Java: A C# class initialization conundrum that has me stumped. If anyone can point me to an explanation of what’s going on here, I’d appreciate it.
Schrödinger’s cat cluebox 20 Jun 2021 (updated 21 Jun 2021)
In Games: Can you rescue the cat?
Oranges preserved in brandy 20 Jun 2021 (updated 02 Jul 2021)
In Food: What do you do with a bumper crop of little oranges?
Releases. Lots of releases. 18 Jun 2021 (updated 21 Jun 2021)
In DocBook, Gradle, RelaxNG, XML, XMLResolver: Release the Krak…all the things! I’ve been pushing a bunch of related, if not exactly dependent, projects forward. I think I’ve pushed new releases of all of them now.
Towards XML Resolver 3.0.0! 03 Jun 2021 (updated 28 Jun 2021)
In XML, XMLResolver: I’ve pushed a snapshot release of XML Resolver 3.0.0. No, really, I actually mean it.
Towards XML Resolver 2.0.0 03 May 2021
In XML, XMLResolver: I’ve pushed a snapshot release of XML Resolver 2.0.0.
Testing NodeJS programs 12 Feb 2021
In NodeJS: In the NodeJS world, how do you manage dependencies during development and testing? (Resolved.)

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