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XPath is designed to be used within a host language, like XSLT or XForms. Some host languages provide a tracing facility: for instance XSLT has the <xsl:message> construct. Other host languages however don’t, like XForms. For this reason the XPath trace() function can be quite useful1. trace() takes 2 arguments:... More

I posted previously on how you can use Firebug to watch events going to HTML elements. Now let’s see how you can quickly locate JavaScript code at a certain line with Firebug. Many tools have a “go to line” entry in some menu, but Firebug doesn’t. Instead, you can use... More

XPath is both simple and powerful. Since XForms uses XPath, we benefit greatly from XPath, its simplicity and power in XForms. But while most of the time XPath is simple and comprehensible, it is also a sophisticated language. Most of the time, XPath expressions will do exactly what you would... More

We have mentioned before how much we love Firebug, the Firefox extension for developers that lets you view, edit, and debug HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Erik mentioned earlier here that the author of Firebug, Joe Hewitt, gave a presentation at Yahoo! and that you can watch or download the video... More

It’s the weekend, our time for something non-technical. But even if we are not working, we can still think about work, can’t we? At least this is what Lise Belkin did in this New York Times article: Time Wasted? Perhaps It’s Well Spent. Amongst others, the article mentions a few... More

I just stumbled upon a good blog post by Ed Burnette. Without entering into the details (although they are not uninteresting), the issue described comes down to Sun voting no on a Java Community Process specification because, it seems, the techical solution (here OSGi) adopted was invented outside Sun. This... More

<img width="355 height="62" align="right" alt="XML Prague Logo" style="margin: 1em;" src="http://www.orbeon.com/download/blog/xmlprague_355x62.png"/> As blogged about earlier, we will be speaking on June 16 at XML Prague about practical applications of XML pipelines. This will be the first time I attend this conference and I am looking forward to it as I will... More

This tip shows how to nicely center HTML button content vertically. You may be familiar with the HTML button tag, which allows you to create nice HTML form buttons. For example, you can create buttons containing an icon, like this: But if you don't do anything special, depending on the... More

<img width="355 height="62" align="right" alt="XML Prague Logo" style="margin: 1em;" src="http://www.orbeon.com/download/blog/xmlprague_355x62.png"/> The XML Prague sessions are now online. We will talk about practical applications of XML pipelines. Here is the abstract: Applications of XML pipelines to web applications with XPL Erik Bruchez, Orbeon The XProc XML pipeline language is well on... More

The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a new Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. Norm Walsh blogs more about it. We are getting just a tad closer from a standard XML pipeline language! More