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In brief: Overloaded at work again (so soon) is roughly equivalent to being unavailable for comment on much of anything. It felt great this weekend to blog a little about assorted things but guilt overwhelms when I think about what’s waiting for me 1st thing Monday a.m. *le sigh*

HOWEVER (comma) renewed efforts on the XSLT front have proven quite useful. Dev’d up a simple DTD for FAQs and the related XSL for transforms is awesome. Much more mature than the last experiment. Why so proud? Two words: CONDITIONAL LOGIC. The DTD allows for 2 types of answers to a given question: a one-part answer or a multi-part answer. Each is to be displayed differently. That being said — it would be silly to for-each a one-part answer and create a one-part <ol> … but for reasons of flow, it wouldn’t be helpful to simply bullet your way through a multi-part answer. (*ahem!* at least I don’t think so) Anyway. That being said, there was a bunch more work to do (now done) on it that was really key: Proper exploitation of <[CDATA[ ... ]]> tags so that we can insert arbitrary HTML (for example). More to do on it for sure. Ultimately, don’t want to assume to much need for arbitrary HTML — but it was nice to sneak it in there. EXPERIMENT!

Back to work.

My quiz score? “70% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!”

What’s most interesting about this quiz is that it fills you in as you go — let’s you know what nomenclature “belongs” where, that sort of thing. It’s interesting to see the memetic pollution in your brain. How much of what you say comes from where you grew up? How much came from the movies? Or your neighbors? Growing up in Maryland puts a strong Southern bent to most of my answers (for sure) — esp. w/ all the time spent in St. Mary’s and the Southern aspect of much of my family. On the other hand — MD is more mid-Atlantic … and the fact that I grew up just outside of D.C. puts me in contact w/ so many diverse linguistic sources — all transplanted b/c of politics, business or otherwise. Interesting results all around.