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Friday April 28, 2006 6:00 am Bagotville NSW 2477
A. Morning Musings
6:00 am I am looking forward to this morning's session with Stylus Studio. It will be my first real venture into the syntax of stylesheets. I understand the basic idea of having to identify the node that the template will be applied to as well as the idea of the template being the set of instructions for specifying the formatting for displaying the data. That seems to be a good start. But learning the specifics and learning the procedures used by Stylus Studio are still in front of me.
B. Plan
Chores: none
Technology: continue learning about XSL
History: continue reading and making notes for "Medieval Lives"
Literature: "A Haunted House" by Virginia Woolfe.
C. Actual
6:40 PM Another satisfying day. I am making substantial progress with XML and stylesheets using XSLT and Stylus Studio. I am genuinely excited about the potential for this approach to web authoring as I begin to see what I can do with it. It requires a dramatically different mind set to the overall approach to creating both web pages and web sites, but there appears to be a noticeable decrease in the overall effort required, once one has a good sense of what one is trying to accomplish.
I am now half finished reading the Virginia Woolf short stories. Many of them are a genuine delight, a few less so.
We made a day trip into Lismore to do some last minute shopping. I was able to find a really neat invention called a DropStop. It is just a small flexible metal disc about 3 inches in diameter. But if you roll it into a tube and insert it in a freshly opened wine bottle, it acts like a spigot and prevents dripping. See photo below. I have just finished adding a few images to the web pages for earlier this week.
Each day we see a new bird at the house we are staying at. Today it was a male Regent Bowerbird - one of the most striking birds of the rainforest. See photo below.
D. Reflection