Category Archives: xml

New Year, New Challenges

Posted on January 6, 2012 by kingargyle

For the last year and half I have been working with eBay through Intalio, on the Turmeric SOA project.   With the new year, I’ll be transitioning off the Turmeric SOA project to an internal Intalio project.   I’ll still … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, open source, orion, turmeric, xml, xslt | 1 Comment

Xalan Commit Analysis

Posted on June 12, 2011 by kingargyle

I’ve blogged a couple of times about the state of the Xalan-J project at Apache.   Recently I’ve been using Ohloh.net to track some other projects, in particular the committer activity.    For Xalan, here is a graph that displays … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, xml, xpath, xquery, xsl, xslt | 4 Comments

Xalan a Step Closer to the Attic

Posted on June 3, 2011 by kingargyle

As a follow up to the prior post about Xalan, a recent posting to the xalan-dev mailing list, the Apache board may have no choice but to move the project to the attic. The main problem is that at Apache … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, open source, xml, xsl, xslt | 1 Comment

Apache may Archive Xalan

Posted on May 20, 2011 by kingargyle

A recent post came across the Xalan-Dev mailing list. Despite asking several times on your private PMC list, the board had not received a report from this project since a few months. As a result, we are considering moving the … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, open source, xml, xsl, xslt | 10 Comments

Turmeric SOA – Eclipse Extras

Posted on May 17, 2011 by kingargyle

Available on the eclipse marketplace, is a new plugin to enhance the editing experience for the Turmeric SOA‘s project configuration files. The plugin adds an XML Catalog entry to the WTP XML Catalog.   This provides a set of XML … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, turmeric, web services, wsdl, xml, xsd | 1 Comment

Maven XSLT: Limiting the Scope

Posted on February 28, 2011 by kingargyle

Using the maven xml plugin, how does one limit the scope of the files to be transformed? The site documentation for the plugin only shows being able to set the input directory for a transformation set.   However, you can … Continue reading →

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Maven XSLT Transformations

Posted on February 27, 2011 by kingargyle

I’ve been migrating some builds away from Ant and over to Maven 3.   While in most cases I could use the maven ant plugin, to run most of the scripts, it is better to just adopt the new Maven … Continue reading →

Posted in agile, maven, xml, xsl, xslt | 3 Comments

Introducing Turmeric

Posted on February 18, 2011 by kingargyle

My blogging over the last several months has taken a back seat due to a lack of time.   Most of this time has been devoted to a new Open Source project I helped bring to life.  In the middle of … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, maven, turmeric, tycho, web services, xml | 2 Comments

>The Vex I always Wanted

Posted on November 7, 2010 by kingargyle

> I’ve been using Vex off and on for the last couple of years. It is good at allowing you to quickly add some content and review it. However, one of the items it has always lacked and has kept … Continue reading →

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>Generating JavaDoc with Maven 3 and Tycho

Posted on September 4, 2010 by kingargyle

>One of my pet peeves are projects that don’t provide some form of SDK information. Whether this be documentation on extension points or javadoc. This little peeve was irritated again when I was trying to find some information on some … Continue reading →

Posted in build, documentation, eclipse, maven, tycho, xml, xsl | 2 Comments