iText is a good jar available under multiple license options: MPL and LGPL.
The classes are very useful for PDF cutting and assembly.
Archive for May, 2006
iText a Free Java-PDF library
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006iText is a good jar available under multiple license options: MPL and LGPL.
Vex – A Visual Editor for XML in Eclipse
Friday, May 12th, 2006
Vex is an eclipse plug-in editor for XML documents that works with Docbook and DITA doctypes. Vex hides the raw XML tags from the user, providing a word processor like interface.
In Eclipse Vex has it’s own perspective that provides a panel for attributes of an element, an xpath status bar at the bottom of the editor that provides the current context within the document and an outline view of the major divisions.
In short, a nice XML editor for simple XML document creation.
Screen Shot: http://vex.sourceforge.net/vex1.png
Docbook to DITA Info
Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
A few links about converting Docbook data to DITA:
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Download for a customization for DocBook to allow DocBook books and articles to import DITA content by reference http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-dita11/
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Implementing the Darwin Information Typing Architecture for DocBook http://norman.walsh.name/2005/10/21/dita
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How Did You Decide Between DocBook, DITA, or Custom DTDs: http://xml.coverpages.org/DocBook-DITA-customDTD.html
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What You Should Know About DITA http://www.arbortext.com/resources/dita_q_a.htm
Adding URL Menu Item to Arbortext Editor
Friday, May 5th, 2006
This example shows how to add a URL as a menu item using ACL in Arbortext Editor:
menu_add ".Help." "W3C Technical Reports"
-cmd {browse_url('http://www.w3c.org/tr')}
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NcFTP Nice Replacement for FTP
Thursday, May 4th, 2006
NcFTP is an enhanced FTP client that has some nice command line features like displaying the size of the file and the percentage complete.
XSLT vs XQuery
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Blog item that examines XQuery vs XSLT.
I would add to the insights here that XSLT is designed for transformations while XQuery was designed to find things that are not necessarily in the current instance you are working with but also not necessarily in a CMS or database.
An additional article from Michael Kay on the same subject.