Monday, February 25, 2002

Ariel Partners Xindice Review Updated Ariel Partners has updated their review of Xindice to correct the minor technical inaccuracies it had previously. They also added some additional issues to their list. They're valid issues and will show up on many checklists, our goal is to get those all crossed off as soon as possible. 7:01:59 PM     YAB Updated To fuel the fire in the heated browser wars, Dawid Weiss has posted a new update to YAB. Looks to be one major enhancement this time around. He says: - You can now update the documents in Xindice directly from a plug-in. In other words: browse to a document, click on it, see it in the JEdit:XML renderer pane (distributed with YAB), _type_ in it, update, modify - do whatever you feel like, using a syntax-highlighted editor, click on 'save back to xindice'. There you go. You can also switch to HTML view after that, to see the effect (assuming you're writing a web page of course ;)*. 5:16:54 PM     Xindice Website Today I finally put the Apache website for Xindice online. This site is located at http://xml.apache.org/xindice and this is now the official URL for the project. If you have any links that point to the old site on http://www.dbxml.org you should update them to reflect the new location. 5:10:09 PM     Applescript Studio Examples Apple posted two sample AppleScript Studio applications with source code. ImageEdit 1.0 manipulates images; iPhoto Tour 1.0 is a “‘talking head’ interactive instructor application.” [mac.scripting.com] Applescript Studio comes with quite a few examples out of the box, but it's so poorly documented overall that more are definitely necessary. In reality I find it much easier to just write Cocoa programs in Objective C or Java, rather then trying to guess how things are supposed to work in Applescript. Of course if you need to glue apps together Applescript is the only way to go. Overall the Cocoa suite is extremely powerful. 1:37:02 PM     Coursey on the Mac Coursey offers 'Mac voyeurs' some answers [MacCentral] Seems he's becoming more of a Mac lover everyday. Good to see his experiment is working out in the Macs favor. Wonder if he's going to stick with it once his 30 days are up? 1:30:56 PM     Mac OS X Java Update Apple has just made available an update for Java on Mac OS X. It is available through software update and is version 1.3.1 update 1. They also announced that a preview release 1.4 will be available at WWDC in May. This is the first official word I've heard about a 1.4 release for Mac OS X. 1:26:49 PM     Xindice Browser 0.85 Release Alexander Schatten has announced the release of Xindice Browser 0.85. Changes include: -- complete collection management: adding, removing collections with GUI -- complete document management, this means: -- adding single documents with arbitrary indexname -- adding a set of documents (document management window) -- deleting single or multiple documents -- saving single documents to file -- saving multiple documents to multiple files -- saving multuple documents to one file -- save results of XPath queries -- some bug-fixes and minor enhancemenments like: -- one click removal of collection and document part in the view to give the views more space -- enhanced source view -- new features configurable, that means: you can decide in the config file with witch features Xindice browser should start. It is possible e.g. to start Xindice browser without any "write and administration" functionality (e.g. for unexperienced or read-only-user". 4:57:37 AM     Xindice Software Page Updated The Xindice software list has been updated. It's still a small list, but growing. Have a project you think should be listed here, please let me know. 2:46:16 AM     Oops The other day I posted about the search term "worst XML tool" and how Dave Winer got the first result on Google. Maybe that was a mistake, now I get the first result. Heh, heh, oh well. 12:41:46 AM

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Resume:

Software:

Xindice (Formally dbXML)

Xindice XML-RPC Interface

Xindice HTTP Interface

XML:DB API Reference Implementation

Jive XML Database Port

FreeDB CD Database to XML Data Generator

Writing:

Introduction to Native XML Databases (xml.com)

Introduction to dbXML (xml.com)

An Introduction to the XML:DB API (xml.com)

Xindice Users Guide

Xindice Developers Guide

Xindice Administrators Guide

XML:DB API Specification

XML:DB API Use Cases

XUpdate Use Cases

ICEPick Peer to Peer Personalization

Presentations:

Native XML Databases Why Bother?
(HTML) (Powerpoint)