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Oct. 31st, 2007

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Shiny new Toys (re: Leopard)...

I'm still trawling through the various Unix binary paths in order to find some interesting goodies among the multitudes of programs available on OS X 10.5 Leopard.

Thus far, I've found that it includes the command line version of SVN, so you can use svnX without downloading anything else (just point it to '/usr/bin' for the SVN binary).

It apparently also includes a program 'xsltproc' which can apply a XSL style sheet to an XML document and it can help you debug your sheet.  This means that I can get rid of XALAN, which has been doing this for me up to this point.

Leopard also has 'xpath' which allows you to directly query an XML document for a given set of nodes (eg. '/charmlist/charm/cost/willpower/@permanent')

It also has 'sdiff' which does side by side comparison of files.  Which could be useful when paired with SVN.

Last, but not least, it also includes 'tidy' (aka. HTML Tidy) which attempts to make HTML/XML prettier to look at.

PS.  Doesn't anyone know if the included version of SVN is 64bit capable or if there is a way of testing that?
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