Saturday, May 05 2001

Kawai Takanori : DBD::Excel.pm

Still in alpha, but pretty darn clever!

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Norman Walsh : A URN Namespace for Public Identifiers

"Unfortunately, public identifiers do not fit neatly into the existing web architecture because they are not legal URIs. Many new specifications (XSLT, XML Schema, etc.) have the implicit or explicit requirement that all external identifiers be URIs. The purpose of this namespace is to allow public identifiers to be encoded in URNs in a reliable, comparable way." see also Norman Walsh on XML Catalogs and Why URLs are good URIs, and why they are not

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is jocular

| source : web1913 | Jocular \Joc"u*lar\, a. [L. jocularis, fr. joculus, dim. of jocus joke. See {Joke}.] 1. Given to jesting; jocose; as, a jocular person. 2. Sportive; merry. ``Jocular exploits.'' --Cowper. The style is serious and partly jocular. --Dryden. | source : wn | jocular adj : characterized by jokes and good humor [syn: {jesting}, {jocose}, {joking}] adv : with humor; "they tried to deal with this painful subject jocularly" [syn: {jocosely}]

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