Live from Austin!

I just saw on a food box:

0mg trans fats

and read it as

OMG! trans fats!

J2SE 6 has some interesting new XML functionality called JAXB. Using JAXB, you can take an XSD file and compile it into Java classes. You can then add those classes to your project, create an Unmarshaler object, feed it some XML which meets the XSD, and it will pass you back a tree of appropriate POJOs you can mess with.The only problem is that the XML file my source application generates refers to a DTD which JAXB tries to load via xerxes, causing epic fail.

Clearly I could rewrite the XML on the fly, perhaps even using XSLT to make the code even more enterprisey. However, I can’t help thinking that there should be a simpler way to either make xerxes/JAXB ignore the DTD (which, after all, it doesn’t need), or tell it how to find it.

Anyone happen to know?

[And yes, this is horribly enterprisey, but the benefit of being able to unmarshal a large population of XML-represented objects in only 20 lines of code is too good to pass up. Plus, I already know that the bottleneck in the intended application will be database speed.]

The amazing thing about World of Warcraft is that even if you’re a gamer, conversations about it sound like complete gibberish. And not the potentially interesting kind of gibberish, either.

Some quotes from the General forum Blizzard runs:

Won’t the S3 rating requirement encourage arena team selling? I mean someone could just have 1500 ratings for all of S2, wait for S3, buy a team that meets the rating requirement for the week. They would have the points and rating.

Fire Mages ouch, you got hit by a huge nerf bat with resilience, my resil alone takes off 10% of your total 20% average crit. So that gives you a measly 10% chance to crit on most decently geared fire mages so the High DPS glass cannon that was once fire mages is nothing but a PvE spec anymore. Without survivability you guys have it tough, especially with the armor nerf.

It would really help BGs if in AV HKs were worth more (except for Alliance at SH GY =) ). This would discourage a base race. The other 3 BGs needs HK honor cut way, way down. This would encourage people to actually go for objectives rather than HK farm.

It’s like D&D played over AIM by LOLcats.