[Westernmontana-pm] Welcome

[Monte Jewell]

Good to see some activity on the list!

2011/4/30 Jack Downes <jdownes at krmc.org>

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>  I work at a hospital.  Soon, I'm to be working with XML in a medical
> setting - translating messages from HL7 to XML, and working with Mirth
> Channel exports to assist in automatic listener setup for feeds to a Xapian
> search engine.  Whenever I work with XML, my first choice is to try out
> XML::Twig for my application, and if that fails, use search.cpan.org to
> find the most recent release of whatever module I want.
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> As I get into this project more, I'll work at being more proactive on
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> Jack Downes
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> Sure Tomas,
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> Well, I am responsible for all of the alternatively formatted
> materials at Disability Services for Students at the University of
> Montana.
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> For the most part, this means producing DAISY Digital Talking Books
> (DTBook XML is at the core of that standard) but we also emboss some
> Braille from time to time.
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> Right now, we convert paper books to UTF-8 text using production
> scanners and OCR software then, student employees mark-up that text in
> Microsoft Word and export it to DTBook XML using an Open Source
> Plug-in. I would love to get rid of Word but teaching students the
> inner working of this XML is not really realistic for the most part.
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> I am basically the only one who ever looks at the XML, and there are
> common fixes that I would like to automate.
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> Perl seems like a good choice for this task. I am just starting to
> learn the basics of Perl, but I have been using Unix\Linux for years.
> More recently, I begun studying extended RegEx. In fact, that is what
> has attracted me to Perl. I already have some useful expressions
> written for egrep, sed, and awk, so scripting in Perl seems like the
> next logical step.
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> I am working my way through "The Llama" (Learning Perl - O'Reilly) right
> now.
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> If anyone has any tips for working with XML in Perl, I would love to hear
> them.
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> I like to talk about what I do, so let me know if you have questions.
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> Thanks,
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> Jon Pielaet
> KD7SWH
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