From r_m_manning at hotmail.com Sun Dec 3 13:45:16 2000 From: r_m_manning at hotmail.com (Rob Manning) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:57:27 2004 Subject: Perl Meeting - Dec. 5th Message-ID: The Baltimore Perl Mongers' next meeting is on Dec. 5th (Next Tuesday) @ 7:00p.m. at the Community of Science Office building in Fells Point. For directions see http://www.cos.com/contact/directions.shtml This month's meeting will be an open-forum discussion of Perl and related(loosely - sometimes we stretch it a bit ;) topics. I'd like to "brainstorm" at this meeting about content for upcoming meetings as well, so I welcome any and all suggestions. I'll bring homemade cookies and as always, our benefactor and host Community of Science will provide soda. See you there, Rob _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From r_m_manning at hotmail.com Tue Dec 5 11:02:16 2000 From: r_m_manning at hotmail.com (Rob Manning) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:57:27 2004 Subject: Perl Meeting TONIGHT!!! Message-ID: The Baltimore Perl Mongers' next meeting is on Dec. 5th (Tonight) @ 7:00p.m. at the Community of Science Office building in Fells Point. For directions see http://www.cos.com/contact/directions.shtml This month's meeting will be an open-forum discussion of Perl and related(loosely - sometimes we stretch it a bit ;) topics. I'd like to "brainstorm" at this meeting about content for upcoming meetings as well, so I welcome any and all suggestions. I'll bring brownies (sorry, no cookies this time :) and as always, our benefactor and host Community of Science will provide soda. See you there, Rob _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From waldo at cos.com Wed Dec 6 08:27:23 2000 From: waldo at cos.com (David Waldo) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:57:27 2004 Subject: FW: Perl vs Java (XML Modules) Message-ID: I came in this morning and saw this on the mod_perl mainling list. More info about Perl XML modules: > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Sergeant [mailto:matt@sergeant.org] > Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 5:23 PM > To: Drew Taylor > Cc: Stas Bekman; brian moseley; mod_perl list > Subject: Perl vs Java (XML Modules) > > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: > > > I know this goes a little off topic, so I apologize in advance. > > I changed the topic for you :-) > > > One big sticking point with Perl I'm just starting to run > into is XML. > > Yes, Perl has great XML modules, and many more promising > ones. But where > > is the _validating_ XML parser? I'm doing some XML work where a > > validating parser would be very nice, speed hit or not. I can work > > around it easily (this is perl :-), but it would save me some work. > > XML::Checker. > Also see www.perl.com which links to Kip Hampton's XML.com > article about > validating using XPath. > > > The XML & Java combination has a LOT more corporate > resources (read $$$) > > focused on it than Perl & XML. How many Java-based XML software > > announcements have you seen lately? Now compare that to > Perl-based XML > > modules. The numbers don't compare very well. What can we > do about this? > > Very little, except produce our own XML modules that can do > our work. And > you can help by praising those that do produce good XML modules and by > using the modules that work rather than those that don't > (hint: XML::XPath > vs XML::DOM with XML::XQL). Apart from validation, what are > you missing? > > > I can't help write a validating parser, but I would be happy to help > > test it out. IMHO, more XML support would help sell perl into more > > corporate settings. Java is big into buzzwords, and XML is > one of the > > biggest there is at the moment. And as we know PHBs like > buzzwords, so > > that is one more point in Java's favor. > > Actually XML is one area where mod_perl kicks Java's butt in > some ways. > AxKit is *faster* than Cocoon. Please test and see for yourself if you > don't believe me. And building XML based web sites with AxKit > is *really* > easy. I built modperl.sergeant.org in 10 days of spare time, > including a > content management system for the news articles (note that > half of the CMS > code is just a plain mod_perl handler). I'll stick an article online > shortly about how the site is constructed. > > -- > > > /|| ** Director and CTO ** > //|| ** AxKit.com Ltd ** ** XML Application Serving ** > // || ** http://axkit.org ** ** XSLT, XPathScript, XSP ** > // \\| // ** Personal Web Site: http://sergeant.org/ ** > \\// > //\\ > // \\ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: modperl-unsubscribe@apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: modperl-help@apache.org > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From r_m_manning at hotmail.com Sun Dec 31 19:21:40 2000 From: r_m_manning at hotmail.com (Rob Manning) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:57:27 2004 Subject: Perl Meeting - Cancelled Message-ID: Sorry for the late posting, but I'm cancelling this month's meeting in light of it's proximity to the New Year Holiday. So, I wish you all a Happy New year, and for those of you that make resolutions - may you be successful in striving to keep them! Next month I plan to give details on a group project which will hopefully result in a platform independent implementation of SSH as a Perl module. Stay tuned... Rob Manning _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com