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Saturday, December 4th

XML Tutorial: Transforming XML Documents


Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) is a specification for adding rules to HTML documents that control the appearance of the rendered document in terms of the fonts, spacing, style, margins etc. In this tutorial we will not learn about CSS. But, do look at the original recommendations, browsers, authoring tools etc that are available at: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

eXtensible Styleheet Language (XSL) is an extension of CSS aimed at working with general XML documents. There are two key parts:

¨ XSL Transformations (XSLT) – A language to specify transformations of XML documents. In this chapter and the next we will focus on XSLT in detail. We will also see a complete example in action thereafter.

¨ XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) – A specification on formatting semantics. Although we will not formally discuss XSL-FO, we will see an example in a later chapter.


New chapter is online: http://csharpcomputing.com/XMLTutorial/Lesson13.htm
aleksey on 12.04.04 @ 11:06 PM PST [link]


Why poor transportion makes good communications


On Thanksgiving, I drove to a nearby town and got stuck in traffic. One thought that immediately came to mind is why do not we have a better public transportation as an alternative to congested freeways. While California politicians debate whether to expand freeways or run more buses, more and more employees take advantage of high speed internet in their homes and telecommute a few days a week. Telecommuting is good for employers because it saves real estate cost and it is good for employees because they do not need to commute.

aleksey on 12.04.04 @ 10:50 PM PST [link]


Friday, December 3rd

Invisible Browser is released.


Invisible Browser is an Internet Explorer Extension that provides the following functionality:
Improves privacy by deleting cookies at the end of a browser session
Protects sensitive data by removing cached files at the end of a browser session
Automatically deletes the history of visited sites at the end of a browser session
Automatically deletes the listing of recently visited pages from the registry
Makes your browser invisible to remote access software like VNC, GoToMyPC and PCAnyware; so an eavesdropper may not see what pages you navigate to.
You can try an alpha version of this software at http://csharpcomputing.com/Products.htm

aleksey on 12.03.04 @ 10:52 PM PST [link]



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