XML Tourist: Mapping and Markup, Part 1

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XML Tourist: Mapping and Markup, Part 2

XML Tourist: Mapping and Markup, Part 2 12/29/2004 08:49 PM
In the final part of his XML Tourist column's exploration of GML, John E. Simpson introduces us to the component schema parts as well as to some GML software.

XML Tourist: Checkmate XML

XML Tourist: Checkmate XML 08/27/2004 01:49 PM
In John E. Simpson's first XML Tourist column, he leads us on a tour of the world of XML-based chess applications.

XML Tourist: Not Quite Restful

XML Tourist: Not Quite Restful 06/05/2005 11:54 PM
In his latest XML Tourist column, John E. Simpson explores some web services that aren't fully RESTful, including Google Maps.

Chernobyl Becomes Tourist Hot Spot

Chernobyl Becomes Tourist Hot Spot 04/27/2004 03:55 PM

XML Tourist: The Silent Soundtrack

XML Tourist: The Silent Soundtrack 02/05/2005 09:05 PM
In this installation of XML Tourist, John E. Simpson presents an overview of the types of sound-to-text captioning available. Pinpointing closed captioning as the most suitable for use with computerized multimedia, he then explains how XML-based solutions address synchronization issues.

Tourist Camping Tycoon

Tourist Camping Tycoon 06/15/2004 06:35 AM
TCT get's alive

not your usual tourist photographs

not your usual tourist photographs 08/30/2004 08:01 AM
a visitor to rio takes a bunch of disposable cameras and hands them out to children in the favela of rocinha to take pictures of their lives (via k5) (scroll down)

Tourist business is 'leading UK'

Tourist business is 'leading UK' 04/13/2005 08:54 AM
Scotland's tourism industry is doing much better than in the rest of the UK, new research suggests.

Japanese to Be Next Space Tourist

Japanese to Be Next Space Tourist 05/19/2004 04:42 AM
The company responsible for putting millionaires Dennis Tito and Mark Shuttlesworth into space says the next space tourist will be a 'prominent Japanese figure.' By Amit Asaravala.

XML Tourist: Canadian Broadcasting in
XML

XML Tourist: Canadian Broadcasting in
XML 06/05/2005 11:54 PM
In this month's XML Tourist, John E. Simpson explores industry regulators' use of XML to exchange information about the Canadian broadcast spectrum.

Body found in search for tourist

Body found in search for tourist 07/29/2004 11:34 AM
The daughter of a missing woman on Gran Canaria says Spanish police have told them a body has been found.

Sex Tourist Pianist Jailed (Reuters)

Sex Tourist Pianist Jailed (Reuters) 06/02/2004 10:17 AM
Reuters - A concert pianist who tried to lure Sri Lankan boys over the Internet during a tour of Asia was jailed for two years on Wednesday under British sex tourism laws.

The Tourist Who Ran the Place (Los
Angeles Times)

The Tourist Who Ran the Place (Los
Angeles Times) 01/24/2004 10:21 AM
Los Angeles Times - HANOI — It took more than half a century of bloodshed and exile, but Nguyen Cao Ky, the ardent anticommunist and former ruler of South Vietnam, has finally come home to this communist capital.

Family fears for Thailand tourist

Family fears for Thailand tourist 01/04/2005 02:49 PM
Relatives of a south Wales man holidaying in Thailand hope for news, though he has not been in touch since Christmas Day.

Tourist plea over couple's murder

Tourist plea over couple's murder 08/10/2004 11:04 PM
Lincolnshire police call on holidaymakers to help track down men they believe shot dead a couple.

Island body is missing tourist

Island body is missing tourist 09/14/2004 08:48 PM
A body found on a Spanish holiday island is that of missing tourist Eileen Owen, the Foreign Office says.

Simple markup

Simple markup 03/11/2003 11:53 AM

Timothy Appnel: I have a new appreciation for the elegeance and simplicity of XML markup. Not that I didn't have one before its just grown the size of the Empire state building and illuminated in neon.

Obviously, I'm currently embarking on a similar mission, and share Tim's appreciation for XML.  My goals, however, are much lower than Tim's: I'm not trying to create a full markup language.  I'm applying 80/20 whenever I can: e.g., unordered lists are enough.  The times when full functionality is required, I'll  personally use full XHTML.

I'm currently looking into textile for inspiration.

Markup in titles in RSS?

Markup in titles in RSS? 12/13/2003 08:14 AM

The RSS 2.0 spec and its predecessors may not say clearly enough if you can or can't include markup in titles. But I don't think you should include markup in titles. Titles are like file names (not exactly of course). They are a happy medium between software and people. Both must be able to read them and make sense of them, in all contexts, and do so easily. While it seems reasonable that a description may contain markup, it also seems reasonable that a title should not. So, if I were writing a validator for RSS, and encountered markup in a title, I'd warn the author that many processors would not be happy about this and it would be safer to strip the markup from the title.

Disclaimer: Scripting News is a weblog, not a spec. If you interpret it as a spec you will be making a mistake. I think I've said this quite a few times, but a few people still treat it as if I were writing a spec here. Not so. And not fair.

A postscript. I went back to see what the spec actually says, and it turns out it's not really a problem with the spec, rather with my recollection of what the spec says. Scroll to elem ents of item. It says descriptions may contain entity-encoded HTML. It doesn't say that a title may. So if that's the biggest problem people can find with the spec (which many were flaming about when I wrote it, it's not like they offered any help, btw) then it's a pretty damned good spec if you ask me.

Markup-Tree-1.1.0

Markup-Tree-1.1.0 11/12/2003 06:50 PM

Markup-TreeNode-1.1.0

Markup-TreeNode-1.1.0 11/12/2003 06:50 PM

Q: Markup format?

Q: Markup format? 03/14/2005 05:10 PM

Q: Which markup format do you use when posting?

Both Textile and Markdown are installed and I flip between them. When I want to post a lot of code without hassle I'll use Markdown because it seems smarter about that kind of thing. Most of the time, however, I want to just write so I'll use Textile; I find that it's a quick and mildly-intuitive way to access the various classes in my stylesheet for the myriad of things I do within this little block of space. Each has a purpose, so each gets used. I rarely enter raw HTML, and when I do it's typically to get around something broken in either markup format.

Et toi?

This entry was in Textile, for those keeping score. It is much easier to enter p(ps). or p(note). rather than <p class="ps"> or <p class="note">.

Nordic tourist death toll climbs

Nordic tourist death toll climbs 12/30/2004 08:52 AM
Scandinavian countries fear the tsunami killed hundreds of their nationals in Thailand, along with other tourists.

Utility pole boxes as tourist maps

Utility pole boxes as tourist maps 07/26/2004 12:33 PM
Darren sez, "Victoria, Canada's City Engineering department has found an inventive use for those ubiquitous traffic control boxes you see on lamp and traffic light posts. In high pedestrian traffic areas, they've pasted neighbourhood maps on them. The maps wrap around three sides of the box, identifying areas of interest (as well as, interestingly, the city's URL).

"What a great idea. Not only do they use existing visual real estate (avoiding the need for other street-level maps), but it's a really cheap, low-tech solution to graffiti. As a guy who spent two sweltering summers across the street from the pictured box, at the busiest Tourism Information Centre in the country, I appreciate any non-human assistance for tourists." Link (Thanks, Darren!)

Space tourist plans busman's holiday

Space tourist plans busman's holiday 04/16/2004 11:40 PM
USA Today Apr 17 2004 3:49AM GMT

British tourist shot dead in India

British tourist shot dead in India 01/17/2004 10:55 PM
Police in India say a British tourist has been shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

Singapore to Print Tourist Toilet Maps
(AP)

Singapore to Print Tourist Toilet Maps
(AP) 05/06/2004 08:39 AM
AP - When finicky tourists in Singapore hear nature's call, they'll know where to go.

New York is offering tourist discounts
on GOP protesters? Right

New York is offering tourist discounts
on GOP protesters? Right 08/18/2004 10:50 PM
Now play nice and mommy will give a big lollipop!" .. weighs in

nytimes.com/2004/08/18/nyregion/18buttons.html?hp
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NYC Tourist Copters Considered for
Attacks - NYT (Reuters)

NYC Tourist Copters Considered for
Attacks - NYT (Reuters) 08/09/2004 12:42 AM
Reuters - Pakistan has given U.S. officials what they consider credible and specific information indicating that al Qaeda has considered using tourist helicopters in attacks in New York City, the New York Times said on Monday, citing U.S. security officials.

ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a
tourist attraction, dammit

ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a
tourist attraction, dammit 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
A Hair Raising Account From A Soldier Caught In An Ambush In Iraq .. ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a tourist attraction, dammit .. a breathtaking account of what can go wrong .. soldier's eye view .. Alamo

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Police Free Kidnapped French Tourist in
Venezuela

Police Free Kidnapped French Tourist in
Venezuela 01/24/2004 08:22 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 24 2004 11:43PM GMT

Bomb in Cairo Tourist Bazaar Kills Up to
Four (Reuters)

Bomb in Cairo Tourist Bazaar Kills Up to
Four (Reuters) 04/07/2005 03:42 PM
Reuters - A man threw a bomb in a Cairo bazaar popular with tourists on Thursday, killing up to four people, including an American and a French citizen, Egyptian police and government officials said.

Group Rips Aussie Tourist Crocodile Hunt
(AP)

Group Rips Aussie Tourist Crocodile Hunt
(AP) 01/28/2004 06:40 PM
AP - An animal welfare group Wednesday took aim at a proposal to allow well-heeled tourists to hunt huge crocodiles in northern Australia, branding the plan cruel.

"ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a
tourist attraction, dammit"

"ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a
tourist attraction, dammit" 04/10/2004 02:10 PM

Tourist Boats Force Killer Whales to
‘Shout’ above the Din

Tourist Boats Force Killer Whales to
‘Shout’ above the Din 04/29/2004 12:31 AM

Japanese tourist heads for space station
(Reuters)

Japanese tourist heads for space station
(Reuters) 05/18/2004 08:52 PM
Reuters - A U.S. space travel agency and a Japanese advertising firm aim to send a "prominent Japanese figure" to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz, the Space Adventures company says.

Tourist Copters in New York City a
Terror Target

Tourist Copters in New York City a
Terror Target 08/09/2004 12:19 AM
Al Qaeda has considered using tourist helicopters in terror attacks in New York City, domestic security officials said.

W3C Markup Validator Upgraded

W3C Markup Validator Upgraded 05/06/2004 09:47 PM
2004-05-06: W3C is pleased to announce an upgrade to the W3C Markup Validation Service. The new release is easier to use and install. It features new documentation and navigation, and offers helpful explanations and recovery mechanisms instead of fatal errors. Managed by a team of volunteers and the W3C Quality Assurance Activity, and supported by a large community, this validator is the single most popular resource on the W3C Web site. Read the announcement. (News archive)

FML: Fiction Markup Language

FML: Fiction Markup Language 01/16/2004 11:33 AM

When is someone going to come up with Fiction Markup Language — an XML spec solely for annotating fiction? For example:

Take perhaps the greatest novel ever written: Ian Fleming's 1953 classic "Casino Royale." Let's break this down from a big chunk of text to make up something more usable.

Obviously, you could mark the chapters and section numbers, but let's go further into the actual content of the narrative. Begin by surrounding all spoken text with tags. For example:

Perhaps you can have another attribute for "target" to identify to whom he's speaking. Then I could do an XPath query to find everything James Bond said to Vesper Lynd in the entire book.

And how about locations? Surround passages with their physical location, like the casino floor, Bond's hotel room, etc. (where appropriate — wouldn't work in all situations). I could then use XPath to find all the unique locations in the book (this would be great for the globe-hopping James Bond novels).

Identify "action" passages and mark them. How about the death of a character? Mark them so I can immediately find out where Le Chiffre was killed and read how it happened.

Introductions of characters are another thing. Mark the first appearance of each character so if I can't remember who someone is, I can go back and find where they first appeared and who they are.

I'm reading Tom Clancy's "Politika" right now, and I can hardly keep track of everyone. It'd be handy to be able to print a "report" showing who everyone is. (A good ebook client implementation of this would know what page the reader was on and not report anything past that page as to not spoil anything.)

Maybe mark the beginning and ending of pages as they appeared in the original publication. And have some way for an expert to insert commentary about the text.

James Bond novels are one thing, but imagine if someone did this for, say, "War and Peace". It would be like Cliffs Notes embedded in the text of the book.

There's unexplored potential here. I can't be the first person to think of this. (And another question: is this just an attempt to completely suck the soul right out of fiction? Should we just leave it the hell alone?)

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Keep 'em separated: Layout and markup.

Keep 'em separated: Layout and markup. 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
So, my idea was to follow the nice development models that often exist at a platform level in UI architecture and apply them to the view components of a design pattern - particularly with an focus on extensibility. But I...
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