2007

Docbook NJIN released to create PDF files

This free software allows windows users to simply drag and drop a docbook XML file onto it to create a PDF output. Example files are included to see how easy it can be.  There is no XML validation so invalid files will give you an error.

It includes a java runtime (jre1.4.2) to run the apache FOP (0.94) software and the docbook xsl stylesheets (1.72.0).  This software is still under active development and can be downloaded
HERE.

Here are some limitations to keep in mind (aside from it being a work in progress
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* modular documents are supported when listed as entities
* relative file references must use "file://"
* a root book element must have an id if the page links are going to work.
* currently XML files should be put in their own directory in the Njin folder
* docbook 5 is currently not supported

XML example software is renamed XML+XSL

This FREE example of converting information formatted as XML into HTML by using an XSL template has now been renamed. This example allows you to use a default XML/ XSL files, load them from an external file or directly download them from the Internet. A print preview is available in the built-in htmlviewer as well as some XPATH examples.

Binaries for Windows, MacOSX and source code for Realbasic are included. This project can be downloaded
here.

IP2Country v1.3 released

Using Maxmind.com's free GeoLite Country database, you can enter in a single IP address or a range of IP addresses and see what country is registered to use those IP addresses. Binaries are included for both Windows and MacOSX as well as the Realbasic source code. It is also possible to easily update the software with the latest GeoLite Country database (released each month). The download is available here.

xml2html project for Realbasic

Realbasic, while having great database and interface graphic design does not offer a lot of tools with the title "Report printer". However it does supply some useful tools to output your report data (listboxes, database queries, arrays and dictionaries for example) to xml.

Then what do you do? Well, by building an xsl text file to transform it to HTML you can then use the built-in html viewer to preview the report and save it as an html file for printing or export to PDF. With a little bit of CSS styling this can actually look pretty good. I made a sample project to show how this can work. It is available in the Download section of the website and is titled
xml2html example.  Precompiled binaries for Windows and MacOSX are included.