May 2004 - Posts

• Separated at birth

  As per Vanya's request, hockey content! Today's entry - “ Tampa Bay Lightning's Separated at Birth “. I couldn't find a picture of Nikolai Khabibulin in his Tampa Bay Lightning uniform that was suitable. My apologies. Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:00 AM by PeterTaylor | 6 Comments

• Dereferencing a dynamic crosslink in an xml-based markup language

  So, let's say you have created your own xml-based markup language. You have designed the schema, you've got some xsd's to describe it, some xslt to transform it to html so your readers can view it in a browser. Just for fun, let's say your directory structure Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:45 AM by PeterTaylor | 1 Comments

• Anyone else using xml as a markup language?

  I'd like to do an informal survey - how many of you out there are using xml as markup? There is a great deal of discussion of using xml to represent data but very little discussion of using xml as markup. I guess that's because HTML and XHTML exist already. Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:43 AM by PeterTaylor | 9 Comments

• Back to the Schema Part I

  Today I'd like to talk a bit more about the authoring xml schema that is used to create documentation for the Longhorn SDK. In reality there are several xml schemas that are used to author content for the Longhorn SDK but there is only one 'native' xml Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 9:57 AM by PeterTaylor | 1 Comments

• An XML "build" system.

  I've received some mail requesting more information on what exactly comprises an 'xml build system'. Some have asked why we just don't deliver xml and have xslt transform the document on the server before it's sent down to the browser. Thus, I'm going Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:59 AM by PeterTaylor | 3 Comments

• Adventures in schema design

  One of the practical considerations in designing a xml-based documentation system is creating an appropriate schema. I'm going to digress here a little, so please bear with me. In theory at least, the users of the system (programmer/writers, editors, Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 04, 2004 4:09 PM by PeterTaylor | 1 Comments

• The Longhorn SDK

  The easiest way to have a look at the Longhorn SDK is to check it out here on MSDN. The entire site you see there is built using the tools developed internally by the Longhorn SDK team. The 'big picture' process is pretty simple - a tool called “Olympia” Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 04, 2004 10:47 AM by PeterTaylor | 4 Comments

• My first post

  Here's my first blog post of any sort - EVER. I have to admit that I'm not a blog aficionado, so if I should ever stray from blog protocol you'll know it's because I'm ignorant. So, my name is Peter Taylor and I work here at Microsoft on the Longhorn Read More... Posted Monday, May 03, 2004 1:05 PM by PeterTaylor | 4 Comments