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iPhone: libxml2 & RELAX NG validation

Having a validating parser in place can reduce the required code to parse XML a lot – you know very well what you actually get. As mentioned in my last post about RELAX NG & trang, I prefer RELAX NG over W3C XML Schema – which doesn’t matter anyway because Apple’s suggested XML parser …

Posted 28 Mai 2010 † Marcus Rohrmoser § Articles in english § development ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

Markerloses Mocap

Heise schreibt heute wieder mal was zum Thema: Apple will Bewegungserkennung als Nutzerschnittstelle patentieren lassen.

Wer sich für die Patentschrift interessiert, kann sich mit diesem bash-Script (benutzt wget und Imagemagick) ein PDF bauen:

#!/bin/sh
# Download the us patent application us20090153474
# and convert the single tiff images to a more handy pdf.
#
pat=”us20090153474″
base=”http://aiw2.uspto.gov”
file=”/.DImg?Docid=${pat}ki&IDKey=47B13F807488&ImgFormat=tif”

cmd=”convert”
for (( i = 1; i …

Posted 22 Juni 2009 † Marcus Rohrmoser § Artikel auf deutsch § seenontheweb ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Apple Patent Application “Swipe Gestures for Touch Screen Keyboards “

E.g. golem reports a new patent application concerning touch screens.

As the US patent office website does only provide somewhat hard to handle TIFFs, I provided a bash script to download and convert them into one single pdf: Download and pdfify US Patent Application 20080316183.

Posted 30 Dezember 2008 † Marcus Rohrmoser § Articles in english § seenontheweb ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,