Monthly Archives: March 2006

Considerate Software

Posted on March 28, 2006 by henbo

Jeff Atwood points out a new edition of About Face and sums up good behavior for software. Coding Horror: Making Considerate Software Although I find Alan Cooper a little scary (compare http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=171658) I honour the fact that in order to get through … Continue reading →

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Stanisław Lem

Posted on March 27, 2006 by henbo

One of Europe’s greatest theoretical information technology scientists and Science-Fiction authors (Solaris) passed away today at the age of 84 (via Heise Online [de]).   Stanislaw Lem‘s fiction is extraordinary because it was never driven by humongous futuristic machinery or descriptions of gigantic … Continue reading →

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More Visual Studio 2005 XSLT oddities: xsl:with-param and msxsl:node-set

Posted on March 23, 2006 by henbo

So yesterday’s problem with attribute debugging on default-namespaced elements (which sort of applies to variables as well since they also have QNames) can be solved by not using a default namespace on the stylesheet element and resorting to explicit result element … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio 2005 may not show attributes when debugging XSLT

Posted on March 22, 2006 by henbo

Visual Studio 2005 contains powerful XSLT debugging capabilities.   In particular, you can set breakpoints, inspect variables, parameters and XPath values and step into every template and evalution rule.   However, if the XSLT stylesheet defines a default namespace, evaluating … Continue reading →

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