This is great news for all #XML and #pandoc users: Pandoc has now a native XML reader and writer for an XML representation of its internal document model (which was previously mainly serialized as JSON). This means that it is now possible to add support for new input or output formats via X technologies like #XSLT or #XQuery. https://fosstodon.org/@pandoc/115161656754193855 @pandoc
Un problème de fond qui explique probablement la détestation de nombreux informaticiens à l’égard des technologies #XML (#XQuery, #XSLT, etc.) est probablement l’incompréhension des logiques propres aux balisages déclaratifs (#declarativeMarkup). Cela explique également la méconnaissance de #CSS. Sans parler des logiques cognitives opposées entre langages de programmation fonctionnels et langages procéduraux. https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/
#Balisage = https://www.balisage.net/ - seems to be going strong; it’s a conference about the theory behind, and practice of, document markup, especially #XML and related technologies such as #XProc #XSLT #XQuery #Schematron #RelaxNG #XPath #TextEncodingInitiative and many more.
XML was badly hurt by people applying it to everything in sight, but for what XML was designed for and is good at, there is nothing better.
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More looping loopy loops; now with wisps (also with fixed closed Hobby curves: things had been going a little off the rails in some places)
One day at the ribbon factory
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More loops, now with full arcs and some separation from the target circles, and some fixes to some of the cross-over loops
Hey, fellow XML nerds & tag lovers!
If you happen to be at Markup UK in #London this week, and got questions about eXist-db, want to talk about XQuery, native XML databases, or just rant about trying to force hierarchies into SQL tables?
Juri and Duncan from the eXist-db core team will be in the house! Come say hi — we’d would be happy to talk
#GenerativeArt interlude
What if you took a regular tiling pattern and filled each tile with random cross-hatching?
1/5
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Textures
8x8 grids with colour and density of symmetric pattern driven by fractal noise
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More fun with open venation patterns, using different kinds of shapes as to lay out the attraction targets
Frost flowers.
Based on a random tiling.
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More fun with integer sequences
Triangular Truchet tiling with integer sequences driving things
Flip sequence determines whether hypoteneuse runs down from left or up; swap sequence determines whether the pattern lays out from left or right.
Colour sequences determine colour advancement horizontally and vertically.
Loops