Jacob Kaplan-Moss: xml

Bookmarks

Graffiti Markup Language (GML)

Not a joke.

(graffiti, software, xml)

Shakespeare in XML

“This directory contains the complete plays of Shakespeare marked up in XML.” WORLDS COLLIDE!

(shakespeare, xml)

XPRL.org Home Page

“eXtensible Public Relations Language.” Yikes.

(language, programming, public, schema, xml, xprl)

xmldiff

“a python tool that figures out the differences between two similar XML files, in the same way the diff utility does” Seems a bit buggy, but might be useful

(diff, python, tools, xml)

RNV

“RNV is an implementation of Relax NG Compact Syntax validator in ANSI C. The command-line utility uses Expat. It is distributed under BSD license.” Sweet!

(relaxng, rnc, schema, tools, validation, xml)

Google Spreadsheet: Functions for external data

“=importXML(“www.google.com”, “//a/@href”)” — wow.

(data, google, mashups, spreadsheets, xml, xpath)

XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit: Overview

Tools for dealing with XML from the command line. Works especially well as part of a pipeline — curl + xmlstarlet makes a wonderful REST web service consumer.

(rest, software, unix, xml)

ElementTree: Working with Namespaces and Qualified Names

Required reading for working with namespaces and ElementTree. It's not hard, but there are a lot of details to get right.

(elementtree, namespaces, python, xml)

ASPN : Python Cookbook : xml reverse-engineering ElementTree code generator (whew)

“takes an ambiguous xml file and generates the ET code to generate that xml file”

(ElementTree, python, xml)

rnc2rng

Python code to convert RelaxNG Compact to the XML syntax.

(code, python, relaxng, xml)

ongoing · JSON and XML

Tim Bray (as he often does) sums up the whole JSON/XML thing perfectly.

(json, xml)

The ElementSoup Module ::: www.effbot.org

Fan-frickin-tastic!

(html, python, scraping, xml)

HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML

Awesome. I know about 30 people who need to read this yesterday.

(howto, programming, tutorial, xml)

NOAA - National Weather Service - Experimental XML data feeds - Current Conditions

I can never find this when I want it.

(data, reference, weather, xml)

SIMILE | Timeline

“…like Google Maps for time-based information.” Holy crap this is cool.

(api, c, calendar, data, javascript, opensource, visualization, xml)

Which Part of “No XML” Don't You Understand?

GvR: “I don't want to use XML in my templates. I don't want to generate XML and I don't want to have to type XML to tell the template engine what to do. You keep telling me that I want XML, but that simpy isn't the case…”

(rants, templates, xml)