Query your XML with xpathgrep.py
Maybe you know this problem: You have a couple of XML files and you need a specific information. Probably everybody would think of grep or similar tools first. But maybe your query is a bit more...
View ArticleWhy Ant Sucks (Somehow)
What is Ant? According to Ant’s webpage: “Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, without Make’s wrinkles and with the full portability of pure Java code.” Sounds nice,...
View ArticleDocBook-XML die Zweite!
(Disclaimer: This post is mainly intended for a German audience and describes my book about DocBook XML. For this reason, as an exception, the following text is written in German only.) Nach ca. 1½...
View ArticlePlaying With XPath Expressions in The xmllint Shell
When XML is transformed into something else, in most cases XSLT comes to play. One of the challenges of XSLT is to select just the nodes you are interested in. This task is done by XPath, “a query...
View ArticleKIWI RELAX NG Schema Explained
KIWI, invented by Marcus Schäfer, is a magnificent tool to build your own SUSE Linux distribution. It is also the backend of SUSE Studio. For those who has used KIWI manually already know the details:...
View ArticleZippl again – now in the package
lightweight presentations some might remember my hackweek project Zippl. I blogged about it more than a year ago. Zippl is a lightweigt presentation tool, a bit like prezi, a hipp tool for that...
View ArticleEditing KIWI configurations with Emacs
I recently decided to do all my work in emacs and even though the learning speed is a bit slow, I thought I would share what I discoverd regarding editing the KIWI config files. Kiwi has the schema...
View ArticleDocBook Authoring and Publishing Suite (DAPS) 2.0 Released
After more than two years of development, 15 pre-releases and more than 2000 commits we proudly present release 2.0 of the DocBook Authoring and Publishing Suite, in short DAPS 2.0. DAPS lets you...
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