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Semi-Structured Data and the Web – Day 5

It’s been an enlightening week on the homework front. Having had some experience with XML before, I know how easy it is to mess up writing XML, particularly if you’re doing it by hand. Nesting wrong here, a tag misspelled there… although XML is, technically speaking, ‘human readable’, it’s not exactly human-friendly. It’s extremely precise, [...]

Posted on March 2, 2009 at 11:00 pm by Paul Brabban · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Semi-Structured Data and the Web – Day 4

Homework this work was rather tricky – transforming XMLSchema into a tree grammar representation using XQuery. Sounds simple enough, but I now feel a certain revulsion, maybe even extending as far as hatred, towards XQuery. To be honest, I think it’s got a lot to do with the fact that XQuery is a functional language, [...]

Posted on February 23, 2009 at 11:50 pm by Paul Brabban · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Semi-Structured Data and the Web – Day 3

Woah. It always worries me a little when the greek symbols come out. So far, we’ve pretty much avoided them in the Semi-Structured Data and the Web course, so to see them today, whilst not really unexpected, did make my heart sink a little. These are my thoughts and opinions and do not reflect those [...]

Posted on February 16, 2009 at 11:07 pm by Paul Brabban · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Semi-Structured Data and the Web – Day 2

So, after little snow towards the end of the week, it pelted down on Sunday night, leaving the pavements and roads like an ice rink at 6am – I only narrowly avoided sliding down the hill to the tram stop on my backside. It’s at times like this I’m very glad of my thermos mug [...]

Posted on February 9, 2009 at 12:39 am by Paul Brabban · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Automata Step-By-Step

Automata Step-By-Step These are my thoughts and opinions and do not reflect those of anyone else. Read the disclaimer for more verbal teflon.

Posted on January 11, 2009 at 10:52 pm by Paul Brabban · Permalink · Leave a comment
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