Visions of Aestia

15 Apr 2005

Wordpress eats comments

Filed under: General, PlanetRDF — JBowtie @ 5:56 pm

A big apology to all those who have commented in the last couple of months. Apparently, something I did during the upgrade to 1.5 caused all comments (even mine!) to be automatically classified as spam.

Anyway, I’ve removed the evil setting and hopefully will start seeing things appear in the moderation queue. I’ve approved several comments and have about 2500 actual spam comments to sort through trying to find others.

If your post was eaten or you stopped posting because I seemed to be ignoring you, *please* comment. It’s the only way I will ever learn.

More VTD-XML progress

Filed under: Python, XML — JBowtie @ 2:04 pm

I did some more hacking on my Python implementation the other night, and am starting to hack out a usable API.

While I haven’t enhanced the parser in any significant way, I have added the ability to select nodes via simple XPath expressions. It handles most (but not all) axes, the shortened axis identifers, and chaining of steps into a path. For example, I can evaluate “name/ancestor::label/@added” and get the indices of all the matching nodes in document order.

I’m now looking at two things - figuring out how to profile this beast, and looking at Python parser generators so that I can implement the entire XPath grammar. After that, I need to get a deeper understanding of Python iterators so I can improve the just-in-time evaluation of some things.

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