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		<title>Why is XML Better?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is XML better than custom internal formats? Isn&#8217;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.

Why the Article
I still regularly run into the idea that there isn&#8217;t really much to XML. Essentially XML is just another text [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVSL: An Alternative to XSLT</title>
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		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.

What&#8217;s Wrong With XSLT?
Limited
The biggest problem with XSLT is the problem I have with custom-written domain-specific languages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XPath From the Command Line Using Ruby</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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)

Parsing the Command Line Arguments
The first step is to set up the command line options. I want to have two arguments:

 a file argument for specifying the XML [...]]]></description>
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