"Working in the Nazi Bar"

https://linguacelta.com/blog/2025/09/Summer.html

A blog post about #linguistics, #XML, and the ethics of some of the people we call colleagues.

(It has religious fundamentalism, political intrigue, and academic misconduct. Probably not quite what you were expecting from lingustics and markup technologies!)

"Working in the Nazi Bar"

https://linguacelta.com/blog/2025/09/Summer.html

A blog post about #linguistics, #XML, and the ethics of some of the people we call colleagues.

(It has religious fundamentalism, political intrigue, and academic misconduct. Probably not quite what you were expecting from lingustics and markup technologies!)

XSLT course this month or next, be there or be elsewhere.

XSLT course this month or next, be there or be elsewhere.

🛠️ Wir suchen Personen mit Kenntnissen in #XML -Technologien, NocoDB oder #python die Lust und Spaß daran haben, die Inhalte unserer Lektionen für @thecarpentries mit uns gemeinsam weiterzuentwickeln.

ℹ️ https://hermes-hub.de/lernen/datacarpentrieslektionen/kollaborationsmoeglichkeiten/

🌐 Data Visualization for Storytelling and Statistical Inference:
https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/hermes_stat_inf_data_vis

🌐 Data and Metadata in the Humanities:
https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/hermes_metadata_lesson

🌐 Relational Databases with NocoDB in the humanities:
https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/RDBMS-with-NocoDB-in-the-humanities

#DigitalHumanities #oer

🛠️ Wir suchen Personen mit Kenntnissen in #XML -Technologien, NocoDB oder #python die Lust und Spaß daran haben, die Inhalte unserer Lektionen für @thecarpentries mit uns gemeinsam weiterzuentwickeln.

ℹ️ https://hermes-hub.de/lernen/datacarpentrieslektionen/kollaborationsmoeglichkeiten/

🌐 Data Visualization for Storytelling and Statistical Inference:
https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/hermes_stat_inf_data_vis

🌐 Data and Metadata in the Humanities:
https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/hermes_metadata_lesson

🌐 Relational Databases with NocoDB in the humanities:
https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/RDBMS-with-NocoDB-in-the-humanities

#DigitalHumanities #oer

History seems to (almost) repeat itself, so reprising my 2008 piece "Does anybody here remember Artie Eff?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/does_anybody_here_remember_artie_eff_2008.html #ooxml #xml #documentfoundation #documentformats #libreoffice #opensource #libresoftware #freesoftware #microsoft #office @tdforg

History seems to (almost) repeat itself, so reprising my 2008 piece "Does anybody here remember Artie Eff?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/does_anybody_here_remember_artie_eff_2008.html #ooxml #xml #documentfoundation #documentformats #libreoffice #opensource #libresoftware #freesoftware #microsoft #office @tdforg

The idea is that we need to be more visible, so let's think about how.

The idea is that we need to be more visible, so let's think about how.

My small act of #resistance against the #enshittification of the web today has been to use client-side #XSLT for something different that #RSS styling: generating multiple #SVG plots from the same #XML data:

https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-xslt/

#webdev#openWeb#indieWeb

My small act of #resistance against the #enshittification of the web today has been to use client-side #XSLT for something different that #RSS styling: generating multiple #SVG plots from the same #XML data:

https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-xslt/

#webdev#openWeb#indieWeb

WHATWG asks: "Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?"

👉 https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

#XML heads, make your voices heard!

#webdev

WHATWG asks: "Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?"

👉 https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

#XML heads, make your voices heard!

#webdev

Turns out, I can use xmllint to clean up a lot of files… this reads the file in, in whatever charset it is, pretty-prints it out in UTF-8 to a new file, then if successful, renames the new file over the old one.

<br/>for f in *.xml; do xmllint --encode UTF-8 --format ${f} &gt; ${f}.new &amp;&amp; mv ${f}.new ${f}; done<br/>

#xml #charset #xmllint

(Fun fact: had #ActivityPub been designed around an #XML representation of linked data instead of #JSON, most of the #Fediverse could be presented on the web via #XSLT, without requiring #JavaScript, directly from the source objects.)

(Fun fact: had #ActivityPub been designed around an #XML representation of linked data instead of #JSON, most of the #Fediverse could be presented on the web via #XSLT, without requiring #JavaScript, directly from the source objects.)

Oui, sinon tout le monde aurait adopté le #XML de #OpenDocument et la suite MS n'aurait plus bénéficié de son monopole.

En créant son propre (faux) format XML, #MSOffice continue de bénéficier du fait qu'il est installé sur toutes les machines et dans toutes les têtes pour imposer son format par défaut.

Il faut aussi savoir que le format utilisé par défaut sur la suite MS n'est pas celui qui a été agréé pas l' #ISO ! (Transitional et non Strict)

Microsoft triche toujours ! Au détriment de ses utilisateurs.