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Michel Rodriguez

Michel Rodriguez is a senior programmer/analyst for IEEE Standards. He has been involved in all sorts of goofy SGML/XML endeavors in the last 8 years, from a huge SGML workbench for the aerospace industry to the XML::Twig Perl module, including writing an SGML transformation language with an SGML syntax way before this became the latest fad.

Articles by this author

What's Wrong with Perl and XML?

Perl, the choice of many for programming on the Web, lags behind Java and C++ in the XML popularity contest. Michel Rodriguez shares his opinions on what's wrong, and what could be done about it.

XML in WordPerfect 9: A User's View

A user's perspective on editing XML in Corel's WordPerfect 9. Despite its shortcomings, we find that WP9 provides a productive, easy-to-use environment for editing XML.

Processing XML with Perl - Part 2

Perl has an unparalleled wealth of XML support, but where do you start? Can you tell a twig from a tree? Can you see the DOM for the groves? Read on to find out which Perl module to use for your XML processing.




XML in WordPerfect 9: A Developer's View

Corel's WordPerfect 9 boasts XML editing support, but how practical is it for everyday production use? We gave it a test in the field with an XML developer and a user. This article gives us a developer's perspective.

Processing XML with Perl

Perl has an unparalleled wealth of XML support, but where do you start? Can you tell a twig from a tree? Can you see the DOM for the groves? Read on to find out which Perl module to use for your XML processing.

Character Encodings in XML and Perl

This article examines how to handle character encodings with XML and Perl: which encodings are handled natively, converting to and from Unicode, and what to do when your tools don't support Unicode.