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Cerstin Mahlow @[email protected] · 2024-06-08 · 14:41 UTC

@faassen Interesting observation, I consider the #XMLPrague community rather young. The average is probably 20 years less than the audience average age at #DocEng. There are people out there doing in fact document engineering, but they’re either not aware of the fact (and categorize their activities sth else) or of the conference

#xmlprague #doceng

Bahman Movaqar @[email protected] · 2023-09-20 · 23:22 UTC

@pganssle @faassen Contrast that w/ #Lisp, #Python, #Ruby & #Perl which offer different ways of managing abstractions, namely macros & meta-programming.

They let you shrink the depth of the hierarchies by using those means.

And b/c of that the culture is generally against too granular abstractions.

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⚠ In recent years, I've seen Python code bases inclining towards the Java approach (a la #Zope) and that is quite frightening 😑

3/3

#lisp #python #ruby #perl #zope

Ashley Porciuncula @[email protected] · 2023-05-14 · 21:31 UTC

Posting some of my favourite pieces from Photo London through the weekend.

📸 Casper Faassen. These pieces are half-photography, half-painting, behind cracked frosted glass. The internet doesn't really do justice to the effect. It's incredibly realistic.

#PhotoLondon #PhotoLondon2023 #Photography #FineArt

#photolondon #photolondon2023 #photography #fineart

Andreas Wagner @[email protected] · 2025-12-28 · 20:56 UTC

@stefan_hessbrueggen I am not in the know about the GNOME/libxml2 developments, but a while ago a blogpost by @faassen got me curious. Took me a while to find it again, but here it is: https://blog.startifact.com/posts/xee/

#Xee is an almost complete #XPath31 implementation plus incomplete #XSLT3 inplementation, in #Rust. Here is the repo (last commit from Oct 2025): https://github.com/Paligo/xee

Probably something to keep an eye on...

#xee #xpath31 #xslt3 #rust

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2025-03-28 · 15:47 UTC

🔥 Hold onto your hats, nerds! 🤓 #Xee is here to revolutionize the thrilling world of #XML with a Rust-powered engine that no one asked for. Apparently, Martijn Faassen spent two years crafting this masterpiece, because what could be more exhilarating than reinventing the wheel with #programming languages nobody wants to remember? 😂🚀
https://blog.startifact.com/posts/xee/ #Rust #Revolution #Humor #Tech #News #HackerNews #ngated

#xee #xml #programming #rust #revolution #humor

Martijn Faassen has moved @faassen · 2024-06-08 · 11:06 UTC

The XML world while a relative island is not isolated from new developments. There were several talks about AI (which is quite interesting with structured markup). The popular XML editor Oxygen has AI features to help people with authoring and XML generation.

#XMLPrague

#xmlprague

Martijn Faassen has moved @faassen · 2024-06-08 · 10:22 UTC

There is a whole ecosystem of people and companies here at #XMLPrague
There are various conferences too.

The average age of the XML community is rather high which means it is at risk of fading. (I am no baby myself)

But these cultural traditions have value.

#XMLPrague

#xmlprague

Martijn Faassen has moved @faassen · 2024-06-08 · 10:19 UTC

I am making casual software developer anthropologist remarks about the XML community and obviously I am not quite an outside observer either. But I have participated in a bunch of dev communities over time.

#XMLPrague and

#xmlprague

Martijn Faassen has moved @faassen · 2024-06-08 · 10:17 UTC

It's also fascinating that XML languages like xpath gained maps and arrays in 2017, in large part because they needed JSON support.

I just heard the phrase "now that we have maps and arrays" in a talk, as it can help in a new version of a restful web framework spec. That's an example of how things move slowly as in this culture things don't fully exist unless they are in a spec.

#XMLPrague

#xmlprague

Martijn Faassen has moved @faassen · 2024-06-08 · 10:04 UTC

It's interesting that in the XML community they have standardized a restful web framework. So you have multiple implementations. It looks like a reasonable web framework too.

Different cultures and software traditions with a focus on standards. I think standards were more prominent in the minds of devs in earlier days of the web. This culture has preserved that.

#programming #XMLPrague

#programming #xmlprague

Martijn Faassen has moved @faassen · 2024-06-07 · 10:51 UTC

Observation at #XMLPrague that XPath 3.1 takes a lot more time to implement than JSONPath or XPath 1.0

I can attest to that; implementing a mostly conformant xpath 3.1 implementation took me about a year

#xmlprague

Martijn Faassen has moved @faassen · 2023-01-28 · 17:44 UTC

Carbonyl is a full featured modern web browser that runs in a terminal; it's quite amazing to see.

Here is a blog entry about how it works:

https://fathy.fr/carbonyl

And here you can download it; it runs in docker:

https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl

#carbonyl