Older blog entries for berend (starting at number 41)

Last days I was involved in a heated database regarding spaces versus tabs, one of those perennial issues. The goal is to bring a good collection of Eiffel libraries together under the Gobo name. I gave in to use tabs, at least my editor Emacs seems to be better able to handle and enforce tabs.

My XML DTD based validator seems complete. Took surprisingly long. I think I spend probably 5 days on it. Perhaps I still haven't catched the spirit. My solution isn't difficult and has some elagance, but I still feel that an easier solution is possible. Have to take a look at the Xerces source code.

I can now turn a DTD into an XML structure, from which I can now easily generate custom made parsers.

Nice day working on eposix. Implemented signal handling for ISE Eiffel, recursive directory browsing and directory filtering.

It seems I've a good conversion of certain Cetus HTML pages to XML. From XML to HTML is finished.

Made a new release of Xplain2sql, release 0.9.2. DB/2 support was enhanced a lot. Still no time to add Oracle.

It seems I can create a Xplain to XML schema conversion soon. Interesting addition I think.

Also my Cetus experiments are going fine. I only have to extract the author of a link now. They should have had regexps in XSL.

Finally spend some time with eposix again. Made a new interim release, numbered 0.9.4.

Spent my saturday creating a DTD, example XML and almost complete XSL stylesheet so the Cetus pages might be easier maintained, checked and be more consistent. You can view my example code.

I currently am rewriting my home pages with XML. I use XSL to make HTML from it. Makes it easier to change layout and such. And it was a good moment to go for XHTML 1.0 and CSS2 as I still was based on HTML3.2.

Xplain2sql is now available in an online version.

Hope to make a new Xplain release now, at least quite busy with it. Checking that it works with InterBase 6, MSSQL 7, PostgreSQL, MySQL perhaps, and DB/2. Have to reinstall DB/2, this time I take the Linux version.

Worked somewhat on ePOSIX. Last days have been really busy with paid work.

I doubt a bit if my Oracle CD's include the database. The setup failed. It also asked for Java during the installation, which I didn't have, but it continued. I now removed the product, and first installed Java. Hope to give the install another try next week.

I also switched to Emacs as my email reader. The latest gnus supports IMAP I detected, and I was to fed up with Mozilla that I switched now. And it works great. Still have some questions like how to save attachments, but it is great to have an email client where you really can edit email.

I completed resolving relative URIs. Now the URL Handler class.

I ordered Oracle 8i for Linux a few days ago, and it already arrived. This is a developers edition, just $200 for a year and you get updates too. Hope to extend xplain2sql to finally offer Oracle support. That should make it complete enough to make a 1.0 version. First a 0.9.x version, next a release candidate and that should be it.

Perhaps time to do something on converting Xplain to XML Schema's.