Tag: XML

Speed up xsltproc xhml – install DTDs

I keep forgetting which package to install in Ubuntu to get the DTDs for html, to stop xsltproc from hanging forever. So, for posterity: w3c-sgml-lib. I think it was w3c-dtd-xhtml in Ubuntu 16 and older. Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 months ago, on July 27, 2019, at 12:07 | Comments closed

Installing XML catalogs on Archlinux

It took me forever to find the packages on Archlinux that contained the XML catalogs files for HTML and XHTML. So: Read More »
By halfgaar, 9 years ago, on November 07, 2010, at 23:11 | 12 comments

Styling XML SVN logs with CSS

My friend, Wiebe, keeps his website in Subversion. (Always keep your project files in version management or you'll be sorry.) He used to manually track the date with the last significant change in each file (because who cares about typos, right?). But, of course, he kept forgetting to update this when he actually made such changes. So, he decided that he wanted to publish the full SVN log for each page. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on May 26, 2009, at 10:05 | 1 comment

Moved from Mnemosyne to FlashcardDB

When I was studying Spanish last year, I had to choose a flashcard program to memorize new words. At the time, I couldn't find any on-line program that just did the job and did it well. In a comment on my blog post from last year, however, I was pointed by Jeff to his amazing FlashcardDB. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on January 14, 2008, at 23:01 | 3 comments