Writing blog posts and managing the blog is much better now.
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( 2.9 / 59 )I hope that this is the last entry in this blog. Sounds strange but I'm currently moving everything to a new domain: xml-tools.com
I'm sure it will hurt my page hit numbers for some time but I'm confident that moving away from the spycomponents.com domain makes sense in the long term. I hope that Google will like the new pages as much as the old ones because I managed to get quite a good page rank for some of them (for example 6/10 for the XML ValidatorBuddy product page).
In addition this blog will also be changed to run as Wordpress blog. It is simply a much better blog framework and has a lot of useful plugins...
So please wish me good luck.
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( 3 / 35 )Another item for the list of new features in the next release 2.5 of XML ValidatorBuddy. The last week I was busy with adding support for Schematron batch validation to the automation engine. This means now you can create and run a Schematron batch from the "Quickly setup and run a batch" dialog in Windows File Explorer for any folder and its sub-folders.
To support validation of XML instance files without any kind of associated Schematron schema (by the Processing Instruction) in this case the batch settings XML gets a new <schematron_settings> element for each batch unit. The schema specified in this element is then used for the Schematron validation of all XML instance documents.
Together with the new XSL transformation task this is the second great enhancement coming with XML ValidatorBuddy 2.5.
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( 2.8 / 38 )I just stumbled over xs3p which is a XSL stylesheet that produces pretty Schema documentation as XHTML output. I think it is not a bad idea to make this available through TortoiseXML . This way schema documentation is just a click away within the Windows File Explorer making it easy to get an idea about the content of any schema you are working with.
This is the next item on the list of great benefits coming with XML ValidatorBuddy 2.5:
- New "Transform XSL" task for batch validation. You will be able to transform the log document to any output using XSL.
- Switch to the latest Xerces 2.8 XML parser which is installed for you by the XML ValidatorBuddy Installer.
- Support for W3C schema documentation.
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( 2.9 / 46 )Automation is something people like. It takes away stupid tasks from them and makes them more productive. Of course the batch validation of hundreds or several thousand files is already a huge benefit but of course not the end for the automation of validation.
As a next step I'm currently enhancing the batch engine in ValidatorBuddy to support a first basic <task> element. The first task available will be a simple XSL transformation. This allows to create new types of output files from the batch log document. Most common example would be to simply create an HTML file from it.
So this is currently in development and will be part of XML ValidatorBuddy 2.5.
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