Norm's musings. Make of them what you will.
This weblog is part experimental playground, part soap box, and part pleasant diversion for me. Here you’ll find opinions, technical and otherwise, photographs, and whatever interests me when I sit down to write. If you'd like to follow along, you can subscribe to one or more of several feeds.
Mexico, 31 Aug 2010 (modified 01 Sep 2010)
Cancun and a day trip to the Riviera Maya brings me to country number 16.…
Reconsidering specialization, part the first, 30 Aug 2010
It's been a few years since I first considered DITA specialization. I wonder if I missed the point? I think that might depend on the assumptions that I brought to the table.…
Balisage 2010, 27 Jul 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
Balisage 2010 is only days away. (How did that happen?)…
XML Calabash V0.9.23, 27 Jul 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
Announcing XML Calabash V0.9.23.…
DocBook V5.1 Beta 2, 27 Jul 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
Announcing DocBook V5.1b2, the second beta release of (what will become) DocBook V5.1. Version 5.1 includes significant new features for topic-based authoring as well as a number of bug fixes.…
ePUB, second attempt, 10 Jun 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
Playing with ePUB. Validated ePUB this time.…
ePUB tools, 09 Jun 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
Want to convert your favorite specification to ePUB? Here are the tools that I've been using. [Update: 10 June 2010] Much revised.…
ePUB specifications, 07 Jun 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
Playing with ePUB. In this episode, ePUB versions of W3C specifications. [Update 10 June 2010] Regenerated with stricter compliance to the ePUB rules; added a few more. Plus pretty covers!…
Balisage 2010 Contest, 19 May 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
Fame and fortune await you. And the opportunity to attack an interesting and significant problem.…
30 Years Ago: Mount St. Helens, 19 May 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
Remembering another ash cloud.…
A Namespace for CALS Tables?, 12 May 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
CALS table markup is shared across many XML schemas. Does it make sense to create a namespace for this common vocabulary?…
XProc is a W3C Recommendation!, 11 May 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
I'm delighted to say that we're finally finished. We've been finished for a while, really, but today's announcement of the Director's decision to advance XProc: An XML Pipeline Language to Recommendation status dots the final “i” and crosses the final “t”.…
Abecedary, 16 Apr 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
In which items from my childhood are recovered and replicated in the digital age.…
XML Pipelines: A Guide to XProc, 12 Apr 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
I guess it's official, I'm writing another book.…
“Default” XML Processing, 09 Apr 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
A look at the intersection of the XML model PI, the XML stylesheet PI, and XProc.…
Demo Jam at MLUC10!, 08 Apr 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
Bring out yer demos! We're going to jam! This is your chance to show off in front of the largest annual gathering of XML and XQuery experts in the world at the Mark Logic User Conference.…
Mark Logic Engineering, 06 Apr 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
I had a lot of fun last week hanging out with my new colleagues in engineering. Not that you should care. The part you should care about is: we're hiring.…
Creating a DocBook V5.0 DTD, 18 Mar 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
Taking another stab at the long-standing problem of producing DTD (and XSD) versions of the DocBook V5.0 family of schemas.…
XProc Proposed Recommendation!, 10 Mar 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
I'm pleased to report that XProc: An XML Pipeline Language is now a W3C Proposed Recommendation.…
Wiki editing with XProc, 07 Mar 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
An example, for better or worse, of automating website interaction with XProc.…
Where am I?, 06 Mar 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
Or, perhaps more to the point, where was I? And where will I be?…
What your drive knows, and what it doesn't, 01 Mar 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
I recently had occasion to swap hard drives between two essentially identical laptops. A surprising number of apps knew the difference.…
Demo Jam at XML Prague!, 23 Feb 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
Demo Jam was a huge success at Balisage last year, so we're going to give it a go at XML Prague too!…
XML FTW!, 25 Jan 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
On the serendipitous joy of finding XML.…
GSD!, 25 Jan 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
Our engineering department has a project management philosophy they describe as GSD. I aspire to GSD.…
XML Prague 2010, 24 Jan 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
See you at XML Prague! And a chance to plug some really excellent training.…
NYMUG: Cloud deployment options, 24 Jan 2010 (modified 30 Aug 2010)
Denise Miura, Sr. Director of Product Management will be speaking about Mark Logic's new offering for the Cloud at our upcoming User Group in New York this Wednesday.…
XProc: Back to Last Call, 28 Dec 2009
Early in January, a new XProc draft will appear. It will be a Last Call Working Draft, a step backwards in the process, or maybe just a half-step. The reason is important though: versioning.…
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