Category Archives: xml

.Net Development – XslCompiledTransform with XMLWriter ignores output method

As XslTransform is now obsolete, I now use XslCompiledTransform to transform my XML and XSLT documents. When transforming I want an XmlDocument returned so that I can further manipulate the output, to achieve this I use XMLWriter but for some unknown and baffling reason XMLWriter does not respect the ouput method of the XSL document [...]

Web Application installations with Wix…. Awesome

This week I set off with the goal of making one of our web applications alot easier to deploy. The tools I chose were -

Web Application Installer (WAI)

Wix (Windows Installer XML)
WixEdit

I’d played with all three before but never really got past prototype stage. I’ve spent the last day learning wix and all the elements relevant [...]

Extend Your Browser

Tuesday 6th (the day of my presentation) eventually rolled around. Due to a crazy machine rebuild and re-install fest, I only finished writing the presentation at 1:30pm on the day. It went really well, some very good questions at the end. As I mentioned in my previous entry – the description of the presentation was [...]

Aggreg8 lives

This weekend I have gone on an all out Open Source offensive. I have released a new version of ACR (Automatically Create Rewriterules) with some bug fixes and faster processing of sites. I have released an updated version of PEA (Photoshop Elements Album Export) with improved accessibility and more options in the python script header.
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auto rewrite rules and google sitemap generation

Although we’re very busy in work at the moment, the last few evenings I have been pythoning myself up and have come up with 3 nifty little scripts.

Automatically generate a google sitemap for any given url – createSiteMap.py .
Automatically generate rewrite rules for any given url – createRewriteRules.py .
View a list of all unique [...]

C# XML encoding woes

I have a simple XML document fragment with a euro symbol in it:
[code lang="xml"]
Lorem ipsˆum dolor sit amet,
[/code]
which I want to load into an XML document.
[code lang="cpp"]
System.Xml.XmlDocument doc=new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xml);
[/code]
I then output the XML of that doc to see that all is well – alas it is not, It has decided to re-enocde my beautiful numeric [...]

Dev crazy

In an attempt to vary the type of programming I am doing, out of office I have been working on quite a few cool projects. Outlined a few below – unfortunately none are for download yet as they are still in progress.

KarovaDev Firefox extension
As Karova’s main product is a hosted e-commerce solution, we naturally have [...]

Half Viking Gallery Goes Live

It’s been a while on the back burner but this weekend I went hell for leather and managed to get the necessary coding done to get Halfviking.com live.
I manage all my photos 6000+ photos in Photoshop Elements and I am very happy with how it copes but it’s web gallery export sucks ass.
What I found [...]