ProXist Documentation, Etc

My XProc abstraction thingy for eXist, ProXist, is not the most well-documented open source project there is, but at least there is now something to read. It's little something in DocBook, just a first draft and terribly incomplete, but something that I'm hoping to make more complete, given enough time.

I also feel it's time to ProXist it as an eXist app rather than a set of misplaced collections.

Paper Woes

I managed to submit my Balisage paper on time, in case you wondered.

Also, I still think my basic idea is a good one. It's simple and, I think, useful. So simple, in fact, that I'm worried that everybody but me thinks it's perfectly obvious.

::sigh::

Just A Few More Days

The Balisage paper deadline is approaching fast. Deadline is on Good Friday, which is three days from now and close enough to keep me busy until some decidedly ungodly hours come Friday night. Basically I'm interpreting "April 18" as "early morning, April 19, GMT".

My paper is, so far, a study in procrastination. There is an angle bracket or two, and possibly even a semi-intelligent thought, but most of all my long days so far remind me more of my uni days and approaching exams, when any excuse from sorting spoons (I had two) to counting dust bunnies was enough to keep me away from the books, than a serious commitment to markup theory and practice.

It is coming along, though.

XPath 3.0

Just when I was finally starting to get used to XPath 2.0.

And there's more. XQuery 3.0 is out, too. They've been busy.