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Dear Reader,

Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

This week Erik Wilde introduces us to XIPr, an XSLT 2.0 stylesheet that
implements the W3C XInclude standard. That's just wickedly cool, as
document inclusion is a core XML processing technology, particularly for
publishing, but in other fields, too, and an implementation as an XSLT
stylesheet is just too damn cool for words.

XInclude Processing in XSLT
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/03/28/xinclude-processing-in-xslt-with-xipr.html

Recent XML.com Weblog Highlights
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Michael Day, Pattern Matching with XML
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/03/pattern_matching_with_xml_1.html

Kurt Cagle, Re-starting the HTML Engine
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/03/restarting_the_html_engine.html

I have to say, parenthetically, that with 223 members (and counting?), I'm
so glad *not* to be part of this W3C Working Group. Scary...

Yet Another Weekly Tab Sweep
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http://radiantcms.com

I'm a recent convert to the goodness that is the Radiant CMS -- while it's
not quite read for prime-time, in my view -- it's not too small, not too
big, but just right. I'd prefer a Python-based CMS, since I don't really
like Ruby all that much, but I haven't really needed to read much source yet.

If the developers can make a big hardening push to 1.0 release, and
improve the docs, it will become one of my very favorite tools.

Insanely dynamic photo portfolio
http://flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/sets/72057594049344877/

NYPD used Web to spy on citizen's groups at 2004 GOP Convention
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/12874

That sucks. Period. The end.

Next time I need to deploy an HTTP accelerator -- after many years of
fruitful Squid use -- I'm choosing Varnish:

http://varnish.projects.linpro.no

Using Mercurial? Miss Trac?

http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracMercurial

Have I mentioned here lately how much I [heart] Trac?

My wife and I have been watching this great HDTV series, Planet Earth,
which was produced by BBC Bristol and the Discovery Channel (sidenote:
last time I was in Bristol I had dinner at an Indian place very close to
the Beeb office...Bristol's lovely!) -- it's stunning and not to be missed
if you have HD and cable.

Of course the whole thing puts me in rather a conservationist mindset;
and, in that mood, I lament this headline particularly:

Five years to save the orang utan
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,2042325,00.html

Finally, Python is a dynamic OOP language, but not based on message
passing. That said, I still want something like HOP for Python -- supah
ke3L!

http://kbullock.ringworld.org/2007/3/26/higher-order-messaging

As always, thanks for reading.

Kendall Clark
kendall@xml.com
Managing Editor, XML.com

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