NPR Topics: Technology

New Solar Cell Easy As Pizza To Make
Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:16:00 -0400
The iJET is a new type of solar cell that's cheap and easy to make, requiring not much more than a pizza oven, some nail polish remover, and a common inkjet printer. Australian scientist Nicole Kuepper describes her invention.
SpaceX Celebrates First Successful Rocket Launch
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:53:00 -0400
SpaceX's flagship Falcon1 rocket has successfully launched from an island in the central Pacific, becoming the first privately-developed rocket to orbit the planet. NASA has already contracted SpaceX to begin private space flight missions to the International Space Station beginning in 2010.
Northeast States Trade Carbon Emission Credits
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:46:00 -0400
A consortium of Northeast states has completed the first cap-and-trade greenhouse gas auction in the U.S. Under cap-and-trade, limits are set on emissions. Companies that do not use up their quota of emissions are able to sell their excess emission capacity to other companies.

L.A. Times - Technology News

Financial literacy for kids
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Adults make plenty of mistakes with their money. Themint.org wants to keep teenagers from doing the same.
A home page for bidding on foreclosures
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Some firms see a place for an online market in distressed properties. Drawn by the convenience, faraway investors won't know what they're getting into. As the nation prepares to pay the price for years of unfettered property speculation, a collection of online companies is hoping to cash in on an oncoming wave of foreclosure sales by auctioning distressed homes online -- with significant consequences for homeowners as well as purchasers.¶ Next month, Duval County in Florida will be the first in the country to hold an Internet foreclosure auction, forgoing the traditional courthouse sale in the hope of attracting buyers from other areas. ¶ If the sales proceed and other states sign on, it will be an earth-shifting change in the way foreclosures are handled because it will eliminate a key requirement meant to protect homeowners from unscrupulous lenders. ¶ By law in California -- and every other state save Florida -- lenders may not simply claim that a homeowner has defaulted on payments and move to take over the house. Instead, they must hold a public sale, in the county where the property is located, after notice has been provided to the borrower and the sale has been advertised. ¶ Internet sales will also have important ramifications for bidders. ¶ Because potential buyers may be out of the area, many won't be able to fully research the properties and might wind up, as happens even in courthouse sales, finding faucets with no running water, foundations that are crumbling and even the occasional corpse.
How I Made It: Peter Y. Levin
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
It's never too early to draft a game plan for your career -- the chief of a tech investment group and co-owner of football team Chicago Rush began his at 19 in Creative Artists Agency's mail room. The gig: Levin is chief executive of GYL, a Santa Monica technology investment portfolio focused on digital media companies and video game platforms. He serves as a board member for online virtual world Habbo Inc.; in-game advertising company Double Fusion Inc.; Power Challenge, a maker of multi-player sports games; and game developer Mind Control Software Inc. Levin is also the founder and co-owner (along with former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka) of the Arena Football League's Chicago Rush team; a managing partner in Palisades Baseball, which owns and operates two minor league baseball teams; and minority partner in and strategic advisor to Strikeforce, a mixed martial arts promotional entity.

 

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4Suite and 4Suite Server - A collection of Python tools for XML processing and object management. Features a repository, a rules-based engine, XSLT, XPath, RDF-based indexing and XLink resolution.

CatchXSL - Tool that profiles XSLT transformations and the resulting time measurements give the XSLT developer useful hints on how to improve performance.
Meta Description: [ catchXSL, the XSLT profiling tool ]

Gregor Compiler - An optimizing XSLT compiler for Java, which turns stylesheets into binary Java classes.

Koala XSL Engine - This is an XSL processor written in Java, using the Simple API for XML (SAX 1.0) and the Document Object Model (DOM 1.0) API. This package also contains xslSlideMaker, a post-processor that can quickly make slides and multi-level slides with XML XSL. The Koala XSL engine is no longer supported - but the source is available.

Komodo - IDE for open source languages, offering advanced support for Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, and XSLT.
Meta Description: [ ActiveState Open Source Programming tools for Perl Python XML xslt scripting with free trials. Quality development tools for programmers systems administrators database administrators network administrators and webmasters ]

Libxslt - the XSLT C library for Gnome - Libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the Gnome project. Libxslt is based on libxml2 the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. It also implements most of the EXSLT set of extensions functions and some of Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions. People can either embed the library in their application or use xsltproc the command line processing tool. This library is free software and can be reused in commercial applications (see the intro). Includes a link to a tutorial.

Perl module: XML::XSLT - This is a Perl module to parse XSL Transformational sheets. It uses XML::Parser and XML::DOM. XML::Parser is a Perl extension interface to James Clark's XML parser, expat. For more details view the xslt-parser-0.14.readme file in this directory.

PSGML - PSGML is a GNU Emacs Major Mode for editing SGML and XML coded documents. PSGML has several functions for editing SGML documents. Indentation according to element nesting depth and identification of structural errors (but it is not a validating SGML parser). Menus and commands for inserting tags with only the contextually valid tags. Attribute values can be edited in a separate window with information about types and defaults. Structure based editing includes movement and killing; and also several commands for folding editing.
Meta Description: [ The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications ]

PyXML - A package collecting the tools required for writing basic XML applications in Python, along with documentation and sample code. Features include (but are not limited to) SAX, DOM, the xmlproc validating parser, and an Expat interface.
Meta Description: [ The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications ]

Schnabel, Bryan - Utilities - A couple of online utilities for converting XML and DTDs to XSL.
Meta Description: [ This is the home of all the XML utilities and books offered by Bryan Schnabel. ]

Stylus Studio - Commercial IDE for creating, validating, and debugging XSL, and XML-to-XML mappings. Integrated XSLT, Java, and MSXML debugger.
Meta Description: [ The Stylus Studio XML Editor is an innovative XML IDE providing advanced XML development tools for XML, XSL, XSLT, XML Schema, DTD, SOAP, WSDL, SQL/XML, XML mapping, Web services and XQuery, simplifying XML data integration. ]

TestXSLT: XalanXSLT Processor for the Mac - TestXSLT is the Apache Software Foundation's Xalan Java XSLT processor packaged for the Mac! Also on this page are JSP XML tags and a small class for JAXP developers.

The SAXON XSLT Processor - SAXON is an XSLT processor developed by Michael Kay.

The Schematron - The Schematron is an XML structural validation language that uses patterns in trees instead of being based on grammars. Tested to work with the following XSLT implementations: MSXSL, SAXON and Oracle work fine. XT, Xalan, and Sablotron can work with certain caveats. Plenty of source code.

Unicorn XSLT Processor - A developer product implementing various XML-enabling technologies, which include a parser, writers, DOM, XPath, XSLT, XSLT extensions, XML-enabling extensions for ECMAScript (Javascript). The ECMA extensions are contained in a runtime library which must be redistributed.
Meta Description: [ Unicorn Enterprises SA is a privately-owned Swiss company. It develops computer software, technologies, and solutions. The company is specialized in document management, output management, solutions for private banks, Intranet applications, XML technologies, consulting services. ]

Visual XSLT - Visual XSLT is an XSLT development environment plug-in for Visual Studio .NET. Features include XSLT Debugger, XSLT Editor, Class Browser, Source Code Control, Project Manager, and Online Help.
Meta Description: [ ActiveState Open source technology-based tools and solutions for Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, XSLT on AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and Windows platforms. Cross-platform development and enterprise support. Free trials ]

Xalan - Xalan is an XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) processor for transforming XML documents into HTML, text, or other XML document types. Has various versions (C++, Java) available. (Was initially called LotusXSL by IBM Alphaworks)

XMLtoANY - free servlet that uses XSLT to converts XML source into content (HTML, WML, XML, ...) viewable for the device.
Meta Description: [ XMLtoANY is a free servlet that uses XSLT to provide content from XML source and XSL stylesheet. Depending on incoming device request, XMLtoANY converts XML source into content (HTML, WML, XML, ...) viewable for the device. XML source could be local or remote (i.e : from a content-provider). ]

Xsl Debugger - A text based tool to debug stylesheets and it is similar to the Unix/Linux debugger gdb. It uses using the libxslt library.

XSLerator - IBM - Alphaworks tool that can generate scripts in XSLT from mappings defined using a visual interface.
Meta Description: [ A tool that can generate XSLT scripts from mappings defined using a visual interface. ]

XSLScript - A terse notation for writing complex XSLT stylesheets. The XSLScript script gets compiled into a corresponding XSLT stylesheet and then the generated XSLT stylesheet is applied.

500 XSLT ISAPI Filter for IIS - Provides pipelined XSLT transforms which parses XML, xHTML and HTML then applies a stylesheet server-side.

XSLT Test Tool - The XSLT Test Tool was created to enable the user to easily run XSLT against various popular processors to make sure transforms work best on all systems. It works through a GUI and to receive error messages from the different XSLT processors while debugging.

XSLT-Process - A powerful editor with XSLT processing and debugging capabilities. You can run an XSLT processor on the Emacs buffer you edit, and view the results either in another Emacs buffer or in a browser.

XSLTDoc Application - The XSLTDoc Application helps you to browse and understand XSLT stylesheets. It shows summaries of stylesheets and explains each XSLT instruction in detail. This page also has several other useful utilities.

XSLTMark - XSLTMark is an XSLT processor performance benchmarking application. It gauges the capabilities of XSLT processing engines by testing them on a common platform with a variety of stylesheets and inputs that sample the gamut of possible applications. XSLTMark is a completely open benchmark with all the source code freely available. The XSLTMark test cases have been designed to challenge processors with a variety of tasks and input conditions in order to provide a well-rounded benchmark and to facilitate analysis of which processors perform best for various applications.
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XSLTunit - The purpose of XSLTunit is to provide a unit testing framework for XSLT transformations similar to the *unit environments available for other languages (i.e. Junit for Java).