Archive for the 'XPath' Category

Why is XML Better?

July 24th, 2009 | Category: Programming, XML, XPath, XSLT

Why is XML better than custom internal formats? Isn’t a non-standard set of XML tags basically equivalent to a custom format when using data internally to an application? Absolutely not, and here is why.
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DVSL: An Alternative to XSLT

June 26th, 2009 | Category: Java, XML, XPath, XSLT

DVSL is a fairly small, little known, product associated with the Velocity project over at Apache which takes the best part of XSLT, XPATH, and replaces the verbose and frustrating scripting of XSLT with a java-based template language instead.
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XPath From the Command Line Using Ruby

September 13th, 2008 | Category: Programming, Ruby, XML, XPath

There are other ways of doing this, but I thought it would be fun to write a command-line xpath script in ruby using rexml. (full working example here)
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