olpa, OSS developer

Thinking about testing XML to SXML conversion to pass the second milestone, I found out that I need functionality that was planned for the future. So I temporary switched to the phase three.

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I developed a tool named GetReuse that smartly calculates a similarity percentage of two texts. At the moment the project is dead, but sometimes I advertise it a bit.

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(This post was written yesterday, but due to internet outage I’m posting it only now.) Exactly as I expected, implementation of conversion of attributes and namespace definitions has taken one working block. The second milestone is now near.

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Other two bugs (see “bug list” and “bugfixing 1“) are interrelated. Use of the map is powerful, but dangerous.

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In the previous entry I mentioned three bugs to be fixed. In this post I describe the second issue.

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Surprisingly, conversion from libxml2 tree to SXML seems a trivial task now. Only attributes and namespaces are left.

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Using a global variable is a bad programming style, isn’t it? But I’ve just used it, and I’m sure it’s a right thing.

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Recently I got a complaint from an user that my FrameScript code did not work. Understanding the problem was a valuable experience.

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Several days ago I passed the first milestone in the generative XML work (conversion from XML to SXML). Reverse conversion looks simplier, but I just was not able to start working on this task.

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Now I’m the owner of the quite good domains “tohtml.com” and “2html.com”. I’m surprised why they were free.

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Before announcing QaTeX, Jonathan Fine sent an advance notice to several persons.

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I’ve submitted an application for participation in the Summer School on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering.

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While communicating about making TeXML distribution archives, I’ve got examples of powerful use of “setup.py”.

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I wanted to work on generative XML, but I had to answer a letter from Paul Tremblay about new release of TeXML. Answering developed into working on TeXML.

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All tests are passed, and now I think that conversion from SXML to libxml2 is working and stable.

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Namespace support in the SXML to libxml2 conversion is completed.

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Yesterday evening, trying to write the previous post, I found that my blog isn’t working. It’s the third computer failire in the last days (here are the first one and the second one). Have I bad carma?

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Before starting fixing the default namespace problem, I’ve created a test framework and added several tests. The results are as usual.

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And although not supporting the whole Scheme standard, the compiler supports fully optimized proper tail calls, continuations, and (of course) full closures. http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~boucherd/mslug/meetings/20041020/minutes-en.html

I never understand why, having such a victimable system as DNS, Internet is still alive. Now my understanding is giving up.

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