Just got to find some use for it..

If you can’t understand what I am on about, I’m sorry for you

I will have to one up it somehow.. the dream inside my head for several months has been a trie like system where you add a whole bunch of XPath’s to it (preferably doable on the fly) and by dint of acting like a trie, the common beginnings of the XPaths are bundled up so as to save space/states and to result in longest-prefix matching.. anyways the combination of these XPath expressions get applied like a giant state-machine/trie to the incoming XML events in something approximating log(n) time, so large numbers of XML streams can be handled efficiently.. probably sounds like Drools (trigger rules which are based on XPath expressions) even though I had never heard of it.

How am I supposed to get an interesting job unless I study, but how am I supposed to study when I keep trying to flesh out my interesting ideas.. but then how can I consider my ideas interesting when they are already taken

There is the bitterly smart Fredrik Lundh and his excellent ElementTree (which will be in Python 2.5) “it makes XML documents look like a bunch of nested lists”. I find the iterparse function interesting. (Of course someone as made a similar python interface but with all libxml2’s functionality and compliance).

Another figure is the fatherly Uche Ogbuji who is heavily involved with the 4suite™ “platform for XML and RDF processing” which is built on by the Amara XML toolkit. Very pythonic yet very concerned about the XML-Specs it would seem.

I should mention the bearded Tim Bray. He gives me hope, but not only that – he contributed to the XML standard (and the excellent Atom standard) and has ‘recently’ written a nice C library for generating XML called Genx. It seems Genx is pretty much feature complete, which is cool (because that means handling UTF-8 and namespaces ‘well’).

a custom XML parser (that maps onto application specific data structures) would be cool.

Also by the same author, The Xom Java Xml Api (which he calls a “A rigorously correct tree-oriented XML model”).

TagSoup, a SAX-compliant parser, for all that ‘wild’ HTML written in Java. Similarly BeautifulSoup written in Python.

From CUJ: Generating a custom XML parser (that maps onto application specific data structures) would be cool.

StAX

• JSR 173: Streaming API for XML
• XML.com article on StAX
• (Another) Blog post by Elliotte Rusty Harold
• StAX and XML related blog
• Woodstox is a StAX-compliant (JSR-173) Java implentation
• Don’t forget the convenience layer for the above

(Ok, so StAX is the reverse of SAX which makes it more like the normal parser/tokeniser behaviour, but SQLite goes the other way (like SAX) because the author is convinced it is better, and I’ve yet to experience any of these situations.)

A Conversation with Elliotte Rusty Harold

(About the experiences that led to nu.xom)

1. What’s Wrong with XML APIs
2. The Good, the Bad, and the DOM
3. A Design Review of JDOM (He worked on JDOM)
4. Lessons Learned from JDOM
5. Design Principles and XOM (Also see the XOM Design Principles)
6. Air Bags and Other Design Principles
7. Designing by Dictatorship, Examples, and Tests
8. The Human Side of XML
9. Organic Schemas and Outlier Data

Rogers Cadenhead on XOM in Linux Magazine.

XML Pull parsing

Pull Parsing in C# and Java

XMLPULL

• The XMLPULL API
• Processing XML with the XML Pull Parser
• Building an in-memory tree with the Xml Pull Parser

(Even though “The API does not model XML correctly” – it preceded StAX.)

From Fred Emmott.

Updated: This is interesting for two other reason, now I have the prefix operator (++i;) fixed in my head, and there is actually a need for such documentation: Interlocked.Increment Method (.NET’s System.Threading namespace).

I had to redirect my atom and rss feeds. Here is the code I used for apache’s .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /paul/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^rss=1$
RewriteRule ^$ http://findlay.net.nz/paul/feed/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^atom=1$
RewriteRule ^$ http://findlay.net.nz/paul/feed/atom/ [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

Thanks to the helpful Rewriting URLs With Query Strings

After installing TortoiseCVS (and probably restarting windows), you can right-click in any folder and do a CVS Checkout:

Once you come to the CVS Checkout dialog, there are three things to be done:

1. Copy and paste the following into box 1: :ext:login_d@cvs.scms.waikato.ac.nz:/usr/local/global-cvs/comp314a/
2. Change login_id to your own University login in box 2.
3. And make sure our group module, noname is entered into box 3.

The University server will need you to enter your password. Perhaps, it will just be the last 8 digits on your ID Card. Enter it in, in case you were wondering. (You’ll have to do this everytime it seems).

All the folders and files that are stored in the version control system (CVS), will be downloaded from the CVS server for the first time. This means they are listed as updated (the files are green and listed with a U).

You can the view checked out folder in Explorer:

So far it grabs photos from your hard drive or photo sharing website Flickr, downloads them if necessary and displays them randomly on a black square.

I can’t think how it can be interesting.

Makes me despair of becoming a fulltime programmer.

Not moaning, but we don’t even have a name.

Help