Don’t call me DOM

While doing a review of the VoiceXML 2.1 first working draft as part of the attempts the W3C QA Team is making at reviewing early drafts, I’ve written up a very small XSLT style sheet which extracts the example of the specification, relying on their mark-up convention where examples are embedded in <div class='exampleInner'>; it uses the saxon:output extension, so that I get one XML file per example, which allows me then to check their well-formedness – and when they become available, their validity with regard to the DTD and the XML Schema.  Read more... (148 words, estimated 36 secs reading time)

A recent mail from Bjoern to our QA Interest Group mailing list reminded me the importance of the work on normative references in specifications; while I hope the Working Group will be able to address this topic in more details, especially given how recent history has shown how important this question is, I’ve decided first to work on a pragmatic approach, that had been on my todo list for quite some time (and others’ too, apparently): a tool to detect outdated references to our W3C Technical Reports; see for instance its results on the list of references of DOM Level 2.  Read more... (293 words, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)

For quite some time, Mozilla’s bug about not recognizing the application/*+xml MIME Type as an XML Mime Type has made my life harder than it should be; that’s especially true for RDF files served as application/rdf+xml (see the proposed registration of this MIME Type). Enough being enough, I’ve set up a work around this bug in my Gnome 2.6 + Galeon 1.3 set up; it’s not clear how much of this can be re-used in other environments, although I think it’s likely it should work with other Gnome+Mozilla derivatives set up.  Read more... (494 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)