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Experience using Microsoft's XSLT? and Is there a good acronym FAQ anywhere?
by Daniel O'Donnell 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Does anybody have experience using the recent releases of MSXML? I'm wondering in particular if their xslt is standards compliant. I understand from the XML bible <http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/chapters/ch17.html> that it is or was not. Microsoft's own pages make it sound like the latest versions might be <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/htm…>, but it can be difficult to trust them sometimes. I ask because a neat tool (Textpipe <http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/textpipe.html>) I use has now built-in XSLT, but depends on MSXML. For those who don't know what I am talking about: XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language-Tranformations) is a stylesheet language used (amongst other things) for converting documents written in XML (eXtensible Markup Language) such as used by the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) into HTML for display on the web. Once the web site is up, we should put all these acronyms into a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) file. Does anybody know of a good existing list of acronyms for beginners? -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/>

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Test. The server looks like it is up again.
by Daniel O'Donnell 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

As in the message line. Please excuse this test. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/>

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Server problems
by Daniel O'Donnell 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Of course we no sooner start a list than everything goes kaplooey. The University of Lethbridge has been having listserv administration problems since about 10am Mountain time. This may or may not prevent messages from getting through and is preventing me from accepting new subscriptions. Hopefully it will be over soon. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/>

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Welcome
by Daniel O'Donnell 27 Jan '02

27 Jan '02

Hello all, I'd like to thank you for the great interest you have shown in this list. I see that a welcome message I had set up to explain the list's goals did not always go out. I thought I'd break the ice, therefore, by mentioning a bit more about our goals for this list. As I said in the notice announcing the list, <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> is the first part of the Digital Medievalist Project. In its final form, this will be a "Community of Practice" for medievalists working with digital media. There will be a refereed on-line journal for research articles, commentary pieces, project reports, bibliography, and reviews, and a notice board/community centre where we will be able to exchange expertise, establish and announce new projects, share tips, post examples, and work together on common problems. Our designer is working on the site right now. We hope to have it up by September, with the first issue of the journal following later in the Fall. I'll be issuing a cfp for some remaining slots in the first two issues of the journal very soon. As some of you know, we also began sponsoring conference sessions at Kalamazoo this year. We hope to do the same next year, and, in the near future at Leeds. Our goals for this list are similar to those for the project as a whole. We hope that this will become a collegial forum for the exchange of expertise and the development of best practice in the use of digital media by medievalists. There are a number of other lists that cover aspects of the material we will be discussing here (e.g. tei-l for Text Encoding Initiative encoding matters; humanist-l for general aspects of computing and the humanities). Our hope is that the distinguishing feature of this list will be its focus on the practical needs of a specific community rather than a specific topic. I.e. rather than specialising in one aspect of research involving digital media, we hope to serve as a clearing house and community centre for information on the entire process of producing digital resources by people with an interest in medieval studies. The topics covered, therefore, may be specific to the middle ages (e.g. problems encoding or producing digital images of manuscripts or archaeological artefacts), or of more general application (e.g. questions involving interface design, or advice on tools). We imagine our discussion will often involve material from other, more specialised lists and resources, and encourage you to direct members to these lists (and report back on the answers) when they are better suited to the questions involved. In short, the goal of this list is to build a community of people with a common interest. By sharing expertise and information, we hope gradually to improve the ability of all to work in the new media. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/>

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