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Philip Fennell

Biography

Living and working in Southern England, Philip Fennell is a contract web developer who is never happier than when he's slaving over a pot of hot XSLT. Originally trained in the printing industry, he worked as an applications specialist, GUI designer and technical author before finding a happy home specializing in XML and its related technologies. Since turning web developer in 2000 he has had the opportunity to work in the domains of Content Management, Publishing, Document Processing and the Semantic Web. He looks forward to the day when declarative programming rules the web.

Blog

XForms and RESTful Web Services

August 22 2008

There was one thing missing from XForms 1.0 that would have made all the difference when trying to access RESTful Web Services - the ability to control HTTP headers when making instance data requests and submissions. What compounded the problem was that many of the implementations either inappropriately (in my… read more

XForms and RESTful Web Services

August 19 2008

There was one thing missing from XForms 1.0 that would have made all the difference when trying to access RESTful Web Services - the ability to control HTTP headers when making instance data requests and submissions. What compounded the problem was that many of the implementations either inappropriately (in my… read more

Is arbitrary XML on the web ever going to happen?

July 02 2008

Search engine indexers are aware of (X)HTML and know what to look for when indexing those documents, but if the indexers were tuned to look for RDFa and WAI-ARIA Roles, would the semantics of the document be quite so important? If arbitrary XML on the web is ever going to… read more

XSLT and Image Rendering

June 04 2008

My previous post 'XSLT and Binary File Formats', brought-up the subject of the sequence in XSLT 2.0 and how it can be used to build a byte sequence for a binary file format like a TIFF image. For the XSLT... read more

XSLT and Binary File Formats

June 04 2008

With all the recent talk of angle bracket taxes and what XML is and isn't good for, I thought it would be fun to look at taking XSLT to places where it is not normally associated - the generation of... read more
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