2011 Oct 02

The resumes presented here were started back in the days when web pages were little more than resumes and links to same. My original intent was to use the web resume itself as a way to demonstrate my skill at programming. To that end, I am 'kicking it old school' and everything on these pages has been created 'by hand' using only emacs.

In this version, I use the eXtensible Markup Language (xml) to create a data format to contain my resume information. I did this for the most part to learn what I can do with xml. So along with the resume data, I created a Document Type Definition (DTD) to validate the information is in the format I support (should anyone else want to use my format) along with several eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (xslt). I used the DTD ENTITY to create the long, short, javascript (which combines the long and short features by using buttons the user can toggle) and text version by importing the base xml resume data and combining it with different xslts to get the various forms I want from the same data.

Along the way I found that while Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer are fine with this, Firefox is not (see Mozilla bug 204102). Given this bug is nearly 10 years old now, I am looking for other ways to do this like XInclude. Until then, I used:

  xsltproc cv2html_js.xsl cv.xml > resume_js.html

to create the html file from the xml and xslt files on the server side. All the browsers seem happy with that, so it is the first link on this list. If you have some insight into this, please feel free to let me know what you think.

-lrm