I’ve been talking to a few developers about what i’m doing here (building xpath4js) and each time I get the same response, “Why not just use jquery”. Well, as far as I can tell jquery is an all purpose javascript library that does a heap of cool things including some xpath support. jquery would [...]

The previous post showed a GWT module that would select data from xml via xpath4js and then render a GWT visualization. That post was designed to show the xpath side of things in action, rather than show a useful way to incorporate google charts into a web site… Today I thought that it would be [...]

i’ve finally had the chance to put together a small demo of xpath4js in action. In short…1) chart defined in xml; 2) xml loaded & chart data selected via xpath; and 3) the chart is rendered:
Everyone likes to see the best part first…so here the final product live (interactive gwt visualization fed xml values via [...]

Early last decade (or a century ago in tech years) I made good friends with a bloke called Kimanzi Mati ‘aka’ Kimmie who was (i’m sure still is) an inventor.  Kimmie’s invention was a programming language/runtime environment called SuperX++ and man! did it have the X factor!!  SuperX++ was an environment designed with the idea [...]