olpa, OSS developer

My paper “XML to paper publishing with manual intervention” is accepted for XATA 2010 (XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas), 19 and 20 May, Vila do Conde, Portugal. Abstract:

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Unfortunately, I’m not going to speak at gttse’2007 participants workshop. My extended abstract (Recursion-free XPath 1.0 implementation) was rejected, the comment from the reviewers is below.

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I like Prague, it’s a very beautiful city. My contribution to XML Prague 2007:
* paper “Generative XPath”
* presentation slides
* poster XML to beautiful documents, and how it looked like

In addition to my talk “Generative XPath” at XML Prague 2007, I decided to submit also a poster:

Title: XML to beautiful documents

Abstract: I’d like to present an alternative to XSL-FO. Using TeX to create PDF from XML is an old trick, but thanks to TeXML (an XML syntax for TeX) and Consodoc (a publishing server), the process is greately simplified and the produced documents are of high quality.

* http://getfo.org/texml/ — URL linking to a web page related to the poster.
* http://consodoc.com/

Generative XPath (0.9.1) is an XPath 1.0 processor that can be adapted to different hierarchical memory structures and different programming languages. Customizing Generative XPath to a specific environment is several magnitudes of order easier than implementing XPath from scratch.

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I’m going to visit (and speak) at XML Prague 2007. Here is the great description of the conference by Jirka Kosek (as a comment in the docbook-devel mailing list).

I will use this opportunity to invite everyone to attend XML Prague 2007 (http://www.xmlprague.cz/). You will see and hear excellent speakers talking about up-to-date topics, as the conference is quite small (around 120-130 people) it has very cosy atmosphere. Moreover we made this conference for fun, not for money, so conference rate is ridiculously low. And if you have spare time you can spend few more days in Prague, which is very attractive touristic location (btw, conference itself is located in former monastery from 17th century).

I’ve just sent an extended abstract for the XML Prague 2007 conference. I hope it will be accepted.

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The slides of my XTech 2006 presentation “XSieve: extending XSLT with the roots of XSLT” are online as PDF. The paper is available as HTML and PDF.

I got a positive feedback after presenting XSieve. But why I’m not blogged? I sure I mentioned something worth noting or discussing. For example:

* If we implement an XML transformation library in some traditional language, we get a poorly re-implemented XPath and XSLT.

* Buzzword candidate “gestalt entity”.

* S-expressions and XML are different, incompatible creatures.

* XML virtual machine as Scheme plus SXML.

Meanwhile, I’d like to say thanks to Eric van der Vlist. I borrowed a laptop from him for the presentation.

What I disliked most during XTech, it’s absence of printed proceedings. It’s a great fault. But probably I’m the only one who needs it.

XTech conference starts 16 May, today is 9 May. Time to prepare. I’ve searched inet for “conference checklist” and, surprise, found near nothing. Anyway, I was able to compile something useful.

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Recently I was asked for high-level details of my scientific work. As result, I’ve written a short text, which I like.

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The XTech 2006 shedule is ready. The talk on XSieve is sheduled to the last day, 19 May.

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I’m talking about XSieve at XTech 2006. Very nice.And I’m a bit embarrassed to be in the star company. But there is no time to fuss about, there is time to start preparing the paper.

Recently I got an XTech 2006 speaker notification. It said that acceptance or rejection notifications would be sent this week, and some more papers would be selected at the week of 27 February and later.

I believe that my XSieve proposal isn’t in the category “undoubtedly should be rejected”, but I don’t expect it’s in the category “definitely should be accepted”. I think it’s somewhere in the middle.

I surmise that XTech reviewers might read my blog, so I’d like to incentive you: vote for XSieve acceptance! XSieve isn’t a revolution in XML world, but it’s anyway an important milestone and worth to be popularized.

Straightforward and honestly about scientific life:
* finishing your dissertation and finding a first job
* your academic responsibilities
* the tenure track
* your life as an academic

I’ve submitted a presentation proposal for XTech 2006: “XSieve: extending XSLT with the roots of XSLT”.

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The post-GTTSE’2005 paper “XML View on Hierarchical Data Using SXML and Scheme” (HTML, PDF) is rejected. Below are the rejection reviews.

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This paper describes a technique for implementing first-class continuations in languages that do not support stack inspection and manipulation. … This may result in better performance than CPS-conversion for those programs that make only occasional use of first-class continuations.

My post-GTTSE’2005 paper is ready. Abstract:

Hierarchical data could be viewed and processed as XML using the SXML format and Scheme language. We introduce a symmetry constraint on this approach, reveal the weak points of the SXML representation, and discuss mapping between XML and SXML.

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I’ve updated my research support wiki. One of the changes is a new page for XSieve.

Finally, my GTTSE 2005 photos are online. The start page is approximately 2Mb, and larger photos are of 300Kb-1Mb size. Unfortunately, I can’t describe how great was the event. Instead, read “Resume from GTTSE Summer School” by Steen Brahe.