Stuff by Lars M. Garshol

This page contains:

• Free software.
• Various writings in English, much of it about the web and XML.
• Various writings in Norwegian, about much the same topics.

Any feedback is welcome at larsga@garshol.priv.no.

Software

• XSA, a light-weight XML-based system for monitoring new releases of software products.
• A CSS mode for Emacs.
• JCProps, a Java implementation of the CORBA property service.
• HTTPTest, a CGI script that lets you send HTTP requests to any server and see the result. Easier than telnetting.
• Python snippets, a collection of simple Python modules.

Software for doing XML work in Python:

• xmlproc, a validating XML parser.
• SAX for Python, a translation of the SAX 1.0 API for XML parsers to Python.
• dtddoc, a DTD documentation generator.
• pysp, a Python wrapper for the SP SGML parser.

Text: English

• A blog.
• A page about running RedHat 9.0 on the Dell Inspiron 8500.
• An article about HTTP and CGI, which explains how browsers and web servers work.
• What's wrong with Perl, an attempt to explain what's wrong with the way Perl is designed and what makes it hard to learn and less convenient than it could be.
• BNF and EBNF: What are they and how do they work?, an introduction to BNF and EBNF.
• The JRR Tolkien poetry index.
• Scripts and languages, a web site about the writing systems of the world.
• Unicode and other character sets, slides from an internal seminar on Unicode and character sets.
• An introduction to Python, slides from a Python tutorial course I gave.

XML-related texts

• Developing XML Applications, a book on XML development I've written. To be published by Prentice-Hall.
• Free XML software, a complete and up to date list of free XML software, indexed and searchable.
• The role of XML in application development, keynote presentation presented at a conference in October 2003.
• XML: Smarter data for your applications, a presentation given at the PAJAVA 99 conference in London, April '99.
• XML Processing Paradigms, a full-day tutorial on XML processing, focusing on SAX, the DOM and XSL, delivered at XML Europe '99 in Granada, Spain, April '99. The accompanying demo files are available.
• What can we use XML for?, six real and imaginary use cases. This is the slides for a presentation given at the Finnish SGML/XML '98 conference, stored in PDF format.
• What can we use XML for?, six real and imaginary use cases. This is the paper that went with the presentation.
• An introduction to XML.

Topic map-related texts

• What are topic maps?, an introduction to topic maps posted at XML.com.
• Metadata? Taxonomies? Ontologies? Topic Maps!, a paper describing in more detail what the terms metadata, taxonomy, thesaurus, ontology, and topic maps actually mean, and how they relate to each other.
• tolog - a topic map query language. Paper presented at XML Europe 2001, proposing a query language for topic maps.
• LTM, the Linear Topic map Notation. A proposal for a concise and easy-to-edit syntax for topic maps.
• A collection of topic map links, for those interested in learning more about topic maps.

Text: Norwegian

• En introduksjon til XML. En (gammel) artikkel som forklarer hva XML er for noe.
• En introduksjon til CSS.
• En introduksjon til emnekart, eller topic maps. Foiler fra et foredrag holdt på IT-forum Sogn og Fjordane 2001.
• En introduksjon til XML. Foiler fra et foredrag holdt for PVV i Trondheim.