Is there a source anywhere for Drone Strike data (Date, kills, location etc.) available as an XML or JSON feed? I'm looking to pull in and crunch the numbers for a Processing project.
posted by GilloD
on Mar 3, 2013 -
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I need a way to see and do a simple search on two large xml files under OS X.
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posted by zadcat
on Jan 31, 2013 -
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We are trying to manually download a dropshipper's XML file of products. The file size is over 22MB and I can't open it in my web browsers Internet Explorer or FireFox (both latest). I tried asking them if they could allow me to read the directory the file's on so I could right click on it and download it manually but they refuse to do so. They told me I need to use an external program to download this XML file. I tried looking but with no luck. Could someone please help me.
Thank you so much...
posted by Bacillus
on Jan 23, 2013 -
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I have a self-hosted WordPress blog in which every post is an image (with alt-text) and a single comment. I'd like to move this material over to a Tumblr blog. The site has two years' worth of material, with about three posts per week.
I've done a Google search and it seems there are three methods for migrating WordPress content to Tumblr. All involve exporting the WordPress Blog to XML first, which I've done.
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posted by Legomancer
on Apr 7, 2012 -
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I would like to scrape information from an RSS feed into an Excel-readable text file for a completely legal non-copyright violating use. In a better world, I'd have access to the database that generates the feed, but since this ain't a perfect world it appears that scraping is my best bet. Are there tools that will help me automate this, or programming tutorials that will help me figure it out myself (it's been 15 years since I last write any code beyond simple SQL queries)?
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posted by croutonsupafreak
on Apr 4, 2012 -
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Programming challenge: pull XML data with an HTTP GET, process and/or lightly transform it, and output a csv file. Please help me figure this out in Java or tell me what other language to use.
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posted by Aizkolari
on Mar 27, 2012 -
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Help me be excited about XML from a programmer/DBA/IT perspective. Suggest tools, software and processes please.
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posted by odinsdream
on Oct 21, 2011 -
22 answers
Can you find me an online (?) course giving me the essentials of the following alphabet soup of Semantic Web related... things? XML, XHTML, CSS, RDF, OWL, JSON, SPARQL, one of JAVA, Perl, Python etc...
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posted by KMH
on Oct 7, 2011 -
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Help picking a topic that lends itself to document analysis via XML-based techniques that preferably has to do with Politics or Political Science (more inside)
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posted by Raichle
on Sep 22, 2011 -
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I'd like to automate the creation of online exercises on my company's platform (as in: automatically generated matching, multiple choice, highlighting activities).
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posted by mammary16
on Sep 12, 2011 -
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How do I indicate the potential presence of HTML within an XML element in that xml document's Schema?
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posted by garius
on May 11, 2011 -
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I've been trying to apply the boolean below as a filter for a bunch of .xml files and I'm unable to get it to run properly. Every entity (in this case car manufacturers) appears on a new line.
I'm new to boolean search strings and am completely stumped. My main problem is that the car company SEAT is returning all results for the word "seat" as in car seat etc...Obviously the parentheses usually limits the filter to specific models. However, when I run SEAT on it's own it works fine. The problem appear to be that there is an error in my boolean somewhere else, which causes the program I'm running it through to ignore all the boolean completely.
Thanks in advance.
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posted by hairgelburrito
on Mar 5, 2011 -
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For a three month dating "anniversary" I'd like to create a bound book of all the text messages my girlfriend and I have sent back and forth.
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posted by talkingmuffin
on Mar 3, 2011 -
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I use
Anki as a flashcard program to learn languages. I have an
XML file of an open source English-Swedish dictionary. I'd like to turn this file into a text file that Anki can
import.
I know nothing about XML files (I don't even quite know what to open it with. OSX tries to use Adobe Illustrator, but surely that can't be right?). Is there any way to do this more or less easily?
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posted by snoogles
on Jan 7, 2011 -
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I am looking for a Filter Builder control to accept user input to filter XML data. The Filter control should be for Windows Forms (not Web pages), and it should have end-user capabilities to specify complex filter criteria.
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posted by inquisitive
on Dec 3, 2010 -
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Excel 2007 Filter: I need to convert a text file to XML. I have an existing XML file that has the correct schema, but no functional xsd file. How do I get the schema from the old file to map to the data in the new text file?
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posted by ashirys
on Dec 2, 2010 -
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I'm sort of stuck on trying to use an XML document to define the SRC properties for images...
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posted by codacorolla
on Nov 16, 2010 -
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XML_Torture: Postgre database with massive data stored as XML. I need to export the XML, along with some other data, to PDF. I need to do this for around 15,000 records. And by next Thursday.
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posted by playertobenamedlater
on Sep 21, 2010 -
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How can I sync an online calendar feed (xml) with either iCal or Google Calendar? I know I can sync iCal and gCalendar easily through several methods. But what I also need to include is my department's events calendar. I can import it as an iCal or Outlook file, but this is only a one-time option. Once the department's calendar is updated I don't receive the new or changed events. And I suspect if I import the (newer) file again, I will get many duplicates. The calendar has an xml feed I could subscribe to, but can't figure out how to translate this into a calendar that automatically syncs or updates. Willing to consider any options that would lead to the online calendar (.ics, .csv, or .xml file) being auto updated to any calendar application. This would make my life so much easier! Thanks!
posted by madscientist01
on Aug 31, 2010 -
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There are a number of websites that show the odds and (if I'm using the term right), the "lines" for various sporting events that physical and online casinos offer (linking would be spammy, but a quick search of "vegas odds" or some such thing will turn them up). My question is how do the site owners obtain the data from the casinos? I have to imagine the data is provided subject to a license agreement (and I would expect there to be some sort of schema to prevent sudden changes to the format of the data presented). How would one go about getting access to the feed of the odds and the payout ratios (?) from one or more casinos without getting rampaged by hoards of angry lawyers? Contacting the casinos has, unsurprisingly, proven fruitless given the difficulty explaining what I'm looking for to a non-technical support representative ("So you want to know how to gamble online?"). NB: I've never bet on sports, so apologies if my lingo is off. I appreciate any help and guidance!
posted by Imhotep is Invisible
on Jun 22, 2010 -
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Is there something newer/better than XML/XLST Maker that will let me automate putting data from an Access database into a clean HTML page that can be edited?
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posted by eleanna
on Apr 6, 2010 -
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Blogger is ending its FTP service next month. I have a problem about moving some or all of my postings into a Wordpress blog. The issue also involves a question about RSS.
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posted by zadcat
on Feb 16, 2010 -
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Is there some way to do a "mail merge" type operation on plain text, xml or html files without using a word processor?
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posted by geekgirl397
on Nov 25, 2009 -
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[xmlschema filter] So, I'm trying to create a RELAX ng schema and I can't get my custom controlled vocabulary to validate! I'm a total n00b and I've been puzzling over this for a while, so I apologize if my question doesn't even make sense.
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posted by thewrongparty
on Nov 17, 2009 -
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I build Flash applications for a living. I generally make them configurable via an xml file. I'm looking for a quick and easy solution that would allow me to set up a form that clients could fill out when they want to update the xml. NOTE: everything needs to be hosted on the client's site, to which I often have limited access. So I don't want a solution that involves complex DB management.
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posted by grumblebee
on Aug 4, 2009 -
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Generating XML documents help? I work with the county health department, and have been asked to come up with a way to create, store and manipulate metadata for various datasets we store internally on a network drive. Basically I think the simplest thing to do is to create an xml file stored in the same directory with any dataset. Preferably I can do this with infopath 2003 or free software, and using the
Dublin Core standard for metadata. I've seen the 5 year old answers on Dublin Core Metadata from
this Ask, but I need to let my coworkers create the data first, and that mostly covers storage/database solutions. Looking through various DC list archives hasn't been helpful.
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posted by gryftir
on Apr 28, 2009 -
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Could someone please point me in the right direction?
I have an xml document that has been extended, and I need to override the xslt that transforms it to html with an import, but I have no idea where to start.
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posted by Skyanth
on Apr 23, 2009 -
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Seeking any way to view the contents of a (possibly corrupted) XML file. It's the database file from a Mac app that manages plain-text notes.
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posted by sparrows
on Apr 20, 2009 -
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Inspired by the
Tweetbook I've decided to use
Lulu to make a print version of my high school-era livejournal. How do I easily turn the XML file with all of of my entries, comments, and associated metadata into something I can print?
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posted by Newbornstranger
on Apr 8, 2009 -
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software to graph/analyse numeric data in xml file?
I've got lots and lots of numbers and I'd like to look at a pretty graph.
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posted by compound eye
on Mar 3, 2009 -
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Why are there no items in the category feeds of my self-hosted WordPress blog even though my overall feed is fine?
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posted by raddevon
on Jan 27, 2009 -
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Where/how do I learn enough about xml to communicate with elance contractors producing xml output for my company?
I am computer literate and had no trouble learning the basics of hierarchical structure, well-formed code, tags etc. from a couple of online tutorials, but I have no programming experience and I wouldn't actually be writing any code myself. The highly rated xml books I've found on Amazon seem to be written mostly with programmers in mind.
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posted by gigimakka
on Jan 23, 2009 -
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