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XForms for HTML Authors

XForms for HTML Authors
XForms is the new markup language for forms on the Web. This document is a quick introduction to XForms for HTML Forms authors. It shows you how to convert existing forms to their XForms equivalent. It assumes knowledge of HTML Forms, so is not a beginner’s tutorial. Although there is mention of additional facilities of XForms beyond those possible in HTML Forms (marked with an asterisk on the headings), it is not a full tutorial on all features of XForms.

I think it’d be foolish if we didn’t at least read about xforms, I’ve been looking at GUI tookits lately too, like WxWidgets, XUL, XAML, TKinter and a few others- if anyone knows of any other gui toolkits preferably with a gecko widget let me know.

Python Bookmarks

While playing around with Python over the last few days I came up with my online bookmarks. As we use python alot in work, I figure it was time I learn it properly. What i’ve written is a few python classes that parse the firefox bookmarks file (for some reason this file is not xml, not xhtml and not rdf.. just some shitty html, so parsing the file was a bitch), transforms it to xbel (bookmarks storage format) using xslt, Another class uploads the xbel to my server by ftp. The final class takes the xbel file and transforms it yet again (using xslt) to the final xhtml version. It’s a bit rusty still but I’ll give it another while and see if I can create a simple exe and then post it here.

Lost – Giant Polar bears

Lost on Channel four was hyped up something crazy and it was looking pretty good with plenty of action and glimpses of potential nudity but then whatr happened…. Giant Polar bears… get real. What a load of crap (I’ll probably still watch it though).

Delicate

Karova night out last night… feeling a little delicate at the moment. One thing I do remember from the night is that Llandudno’s idea of club music is about 10 years behind… still I gave my danicing shoes a good workout.

Devon

Myself and Gill went to Devon last week. We drove down on the thursday night and stayed in a travel inn. The motorways are very efficient here and we made it down really quickly. On Firday morning we flew down to Dawlish. We set up camp (super new 4 man tent) and then explored Devon for the next few days. It was a really great long weekend and I loved it. We explored, Dawlish, Torquay, Cockington, Paignton, Salcombe,Sidmouth, Branscombe and probably loads more.

Well worth a trip and it was a great break.