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October 28, 2008

Python and XML (and Google!) in publishing applications

IBM DeveloperWorks has just released an article of mine on High-Performance XML Parsing in Python.  Although there is nothing publishing-centric about the article itself, it was based on my own experience in dealing with large XML datasets in academic publishing.

Massive XML files are uncommon in the general web development world, where the primary roles of [...]

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October 14, 2008

TEI + Python + lxml + Dutch = Corpus Toneelkritiek Interbellum

I was pleased to be able to assist with the Corpus Toneelkritiek Interbellum project, which allows reading, browsing and searching of early 20th-century Dutch theater reviews. I can’t read Dutch, but Google’s automated translation tells me that the review of Hamlet mentions a “long modern clown,” which sounds disturbing enough that I’ll leave the [...]

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