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QName-to-URI mapping

Looking deeper into the origins of representing namespaced elements in braced syntax, it looks like the issue of a canonical mapping from QName to a URI has a long history at the W3C:

XPath Data Model for encoding XML as JSON

There is a model for mapping arbitrary XML to a JSON-like data model. Consider the following document:

XML Normalization

It seems like a lot of people despise XML and consider it obsolete. But I would argue that is not the case and beautiful XML is very much possible if we apply the learnings from Database normalization.

Box-Drawing Mojibake

At $dayjob I recently came across the string “f├╝r” and was wondering what kind of Mojibake that was.

SDO Studio v0.0.1

During the pandemic I created a small tool that would read and transform documents created using Signum! 1/2 for the Atari ST. It’s a CLI application, initially created for debugging the format, so the user experience is suboptimal.

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