Daily newness: An online XML-to-XSD Converter

February 13, 2006 / e-learning, General, web design and development

OK, most of you probably don’t know the difference between an XML file and an XSD (“XML Schema”) file. For a brief intro check out W3Schools’ XML Schema tutorial. A brief quote: “The purpose of an XML Schema is to define the legal building blocks of an XML document, just like a DTD.” This week I needed to create an XML Schema doc for work. The XSD file would be used to validate XML files I’ll be making for my online courses. Well, being a newbie to XSD files (though not XML), I was making decent but very slow progress …

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Today’s bit o’ knowledge: Firefox Web Developer Extension

February 12, 2006 / JavaScript, web design and development

today i learned about chris pederick’s ultra-handy Web Developer Extension for Firefox. yeah yeah yeah, i know it’s been around for a while, but i never TRIED it until today. i wish i had tried it sooner! among its many features is the ability to toggle outlines on and off (looking at other sites’ block-level CSS is fun in a voyeuristic way), as well as the ability to disable a site’s CSS, images, javascript, cookies and more! it makes it really easy to examine the nuts-and-bolts of a web page’s structure/design without doing a save-as and opening in an editor …

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