Eddie Welker.com

Simply put, thanks to everyone who visited in the past year. Still amazing to me that people from nearly 80 countries took a look at something I did. Cheers to the new year, may it be good to all of us!

Recursion is one of the core concepts in programming. It’s valuable not only as a technique for writing programs, but as a general concept for solving problems. XSLT provides many useful elements such as for-each (and apply-templates), but occasionally you will run into a problem which must be solved with recursion. Let’s take a look [...]

Using XSLT to copy elements is extremely common when you’re transforming a source document of a certain type (XML, HTML, etc.) to the same type. Often, you need an exact copy of an element verbatim, but other times you need to selectively choose certain elements to copy and others to discard. XSLT makes this process [...]

I don’t typically link to other blogs/articles, nor do I mention classical music particularly often, but I found this article and blog entry so interesting and thought-provoking that they deserve a re-post. First, a moving blog entry from David Finlayson, trombonist in the New York Philharmonic, and second, the New York Times article describing the [...]