• docbook/xslTNG #684 merged, 7 Oct 2026 at 09:28:38

  Test emptiness with empty() and drop explicit child:: axes

• docbook/xslTNG #684 created, 2 Oct 2026 at 17:39:20

  Test emptiness with empty() and drop explicit child:: axes

  This is a small tidy-up of five lines in src/main/xslt/modules.

  Three emptiness tests count every item to answer a question the first item settles. empty() stops at the first item and says what the test means:

                 -  <xsl:if test="count($coords) lt 1 or count($coords) gt 2">
  +  <xsl:if test="empty($coords) or count($coords) gt 2">
  
              

  The other two are count($target) = 0 in chunk-cleanup.xsl and count(db:methodparam) eq 0 in programming.xsl. Two explicit child:: steps, in bibliography.xsl and lists.xsl, are dropped as well.

  ./gradlew test passes on this branch with 1711 of 1711 tests, the same as on main at a840909.

  These were found with xslint, a linter for XSLT. Its fixer made the edits, and I reviewed each one by hand.

• relaxng/jing-trang #297 closed, 1 Oct 2026 at 19:27:35

  Release/wip

• relaxng/jing-trang #297 created, 1 Oct 2026 at 19:16:51

  Release/wip

• blog.saxonica.com, 1 Oct 2026 at 17:15:00

  The future of Intel-based Mac products

  When Apple discontinued making computers based on the Intel chipset, in favor of their own Apple silicon chips, it was clear that the days for Intel-based Mac products were numbered.

  The previous macOS release, macOS 26, “Tahoe”, was the last version of macOS that could be installed on an Intel Mac and, although macOS 27, “Golden Gate”, can use “Rosetta” to support Intel-based applications, Rosetta will be removed in macOS 28.

  It’s already the case that some significant tools, like Homebrew, have discontinued support for Intel-based Macs. And recently, GraalVM followed suit.

  This puts our SaxonC product line in something of a bind. Ideally, we’d time any change in platforms or architectures to line up with a full release. But GraalVM’s rather abrupt decision to discontinue support for Intel-based Macs means we either have to avoid upgrading the version of GraalVM that we use (sacrificing potential performance gains and possibly leaving systems vulnerable), or we have to acknowledge that we can no longer distribute SaxonC products (including Python and PHP) for Intel-based Macs.

  The current plan is that Saxon 12 will continue to support Intel-based Macs, but that could change if it became necessary to upgrade GraalVM for that release. In some near-term Saxon 13 release, we’ll be upgrading GraalVM and discontinuing support for Intel-based Macs.

  Not because we want to, but because there’s no practical way to continue delivering it.

• so.nwalsh.com, 25 Sep 2026 at 18:05:11

  Not a fan, but also “I wonder if something went wrong with this keg” levels of skunkyness. Back to Staropramen.

  
• photos.nwalsh.com, 25 Sep 2026 at 16:46:34
  

  Alpacalypse
• so.nwalsh.com, 24 Sep 2026 at 17:04:24

  Relaxing after the first meeting day.

  
• photos.nwalsh.com, 24 Sep 2026 at 16:46:18
  

  Staropramen
• so.nwalsh.com, 23 Sep 2026 at 16:54:55

  Oxford, briefly.

  
• photos.nwalsh.com, 23 Sep 2026 at 16:47:55
  

  GWR
• so.nwalsh.com, 22 Sep 2026 at 10:57:59

  I have no idea what these are, but they're huge. Those leaves are on the order of five or six feet across and several of the stalks were taller than me.

  
• so.nwalsh.com, 20 Sep 2026 at 15:38:49

  I managed to get may AWS Lambda photo publisher thing working again.

  
• photos.nwalsh.com, 20 Sep 2026 at 10:46:05
  

  Enormous
• photos.nwalsh.com, 20 Sep 2026 at 09:48:42
  

  Mallard
• photos.nwalsh.com, 19 Sep 2026 at 16:34:30
  

  Another test
• photos.nwalsh.com, 19 Sep 2026 at 15:10:35
  

  Test image
• relaxng/jing-trang #296 created, 15 Sep 2026 at 12:45:26

  Invalid attribute value is not named in error message

  Hi, when I validate a file, I can a looong error message with the allowed attribute values. But what is missing, what would have been helpful, is the invalid attribute value. This would allow me to find the invalid value and replace it more conveniently.

  
• relaxng/jing-trang #295 closed, 11 Sep 2026 at 19:22:05

  Release/dependabot

• relaxng/jing-trang #295 created, 11 Sep 2026 at 19:21:14

  Release/dependabot

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