Category Archives: xslt

.Net Development – XslCompiledTransform with XMLWriter ignores output method

September 18, 2008 – 5:42 pm

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 [...]

By philroche | Also posted in General, c#, xml | Comments (0)

Step away from the code

June 6, 2008 – 12:16 pm

Since coming back to Karova, I’ve been doing ALOT more management of projects than I did before. Usually what happens is I get the projects once they’ve been spec’d (and prototype’d if appropriate) and then I manage the completion of the project from dev->staging->live and then pass it back to billing.
We always have a good [...]

By philroche | Also posted in karova, software | Comments (0)

Extend your browser – ITWales

January 30, 2007 – 10:25 am

Last year I gave a presentation to the ITWales group on Content Syndication. I have been bullied into giving another presentation next Tuesday. I have entitled it “Extending your browser”. Directly from the flyer -
Firefox and the Gecko family of browsers are not simply web browsers, they can be extended to provide custom functionality, and [...]

By philroche | Also posted in Techie, firefox, javascript, open source, rss, scripting | Comments (2)

C# XML encoding woes

July 21, 2006 – 1:01 pm

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 [...]

By philroche | Also posted in Techie, c#, xml | Comments (0)

Half Viking Gallery Goes Live

October 18, 2005 – 6:50 am

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 [...]

By philroche | Also posted in General, pea, python, xml | Comments (2)