My friend Liz Fraley of Single-Sourcing Solutions asked to interview me in a podcast. We have chatted over the last few months on how we wanted to do this. I knew I want to, I needed to learn that medium. So, we played with some technology, and using Skype, and recorders on both ends and [...]
One thing that I think about all the time is how to improve documentation. One thing I would like to have is documentation that is context sensitive in Arbortext and collaborative. At work we have a style guide which determines “what” we are to do but rather than “how” to do it. Many years ago, [...]
In SGML files graphics are declared. Once they are declared they can be referenced in elements such as <graphic> or whatever your DTD declares. Often during the development of the files, some graphic declarations are created but never used. It is a good practice to remove graphic declarations that are not required.
I came across this [...]
ACL, Arbortext’s Command Language, it is similar to Perl which is the programming language I prefer. See Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
Arrays
Arrays are special variables with multiple “compartments”. Each compartment holds a value. Arrays consist of names and indexes. ACL has two types of one-dimensional arrays:
Normal arrays are indexed by integers subscripts.
$array[1] = [...]
ACL is Arbortext’s Command Language. It is similar to Perl, which I really like. See Part 1 and Part 2.
Variables
A variable is a keyword or phrase that is linked to a “value” stored in memory or an expression that can be evaluated. For instance, a variable might be called “total_count” and contains a number. [...]
Using Arbortext Editor, selecting a column can take some time. This tip is a quick and easy way to select the entire column. As well as, performance will be better when the table is collapsed or in view markup mode.
A tip showing how to paste a single object like a cross reference from one cell into multiple cells of a table in Arbortext Editor.
Using XSLT, I want to display some examples, however, not show you the original text. My sample file is a real-world example, but the content is a distraction. This simple transformation will convert all of the text nodes (document text) to x’s. During the transformation, the XSLT stylesheet will convert, all the capital, lowercase letters [...]
I recently returned from an XSLT class taught by G. Ken Holman of Crane Softwrights. The class was five days training on XSLT, XQuery, and XPath. The class took place in Walnut Creek, California, August 3-7th, 2009. This was very intense. It was like trying to get a drink of water out of a fire hose. [...]
I have been way too busy these last couple of weeks, so I have not been able to add more tips and the likes to the site. But, I have a three day weekend and would like to add some new articles and from my reading from my RSS feeds, I came across a listing [...]
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