Category: XML/XSLT

JDOM – A Pure Java XML API

Today was a good day –I preached to an acquaintance about JDOM [1] and why I decided to use it in preference to other XML APIs [2, 3]. In the process, I realised I had not blogged about it. I am hoping this short article will help someone get started with XML and Java… programming is fun and believe me you will have fun using JDOM. (more…)

Meuchian Grouping Method – XSLT 1.0

I have a huge XML document that makes up metadata for bushman drawings that were compiled in the late 19th centuary and recently digitised. I am trying to generate a view of part of that information, but I need to rearrange the structure of some XML elements. Oh, and YES! I do know that this can potentially be done seamlessly in XSLT 2.0 [1], but I want to generalise my solution and not restrict myself to processing my documents with a particular xslt processor –Saxon [2] is the only xslt processor known to be compatible with xslt 2.0. (more…)