Saturday 2002.5.11
Half of Argentines below poverty line | "BBC South America correspondent Tom Gibb says the crisis is easily visible on the streets of Buenos Aires, where people sleep out in the parks, queue outside restaurants for leftovers and rummage through garbage to try to eke out a living... Mr Del Bello described the increase in numbers of poor just since April as dramatic, with almost two million people falling below the poverty line in the space of a month." [BBC News] 
Jeni Tennison | "I think most XSLT users are (or were) thinking of XPath 2.0 as XPath 1.0 plus the bits that they're not able to do in XPath 1.0 (some more functions, general steps, date manipulation). I doubt most XSLT users care about XQuery at all, except in so far as it seems to have hijacked XPath 2.0 development." [xml-dev]
Groan... | "The score is now Adobe one, Macromedia one, customers zero," [MacCentral] ... lawyers 10!
Splitting and Manipulating Strings | "The XPath string functions incorporated by XSLT give you a lot of power when you're manipulating element character data, attribute values, and any other strings of text that your stylesheet can access. We'll start by looking at ways to use these functions to split up strings and how a PCDATA element might be split into subelements." [XML.com]
