The Mindjet Labs

One of the challenges with creating online documentation is readability, especially with long documents.  Most of the time, we end up printing out documents instead of attempting to read them online.  One we print them out we lose the ability to easily search for text, one of the great aspects of online documents.  Creating a great ...

A common practice with Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) is to expose the text as hidden DIV section in on the same page as the Silverlight control.  I have crafted a page with a Silverlight application that has a unique word on it that is picked up by Google's search engine.  When search crawlers see the page, they don't see the ...

If you look at the XML generated by the OneNote 2007 API, you will notice that the text outline sections are all escaped with CDATA[] elements.  This, in my opinion is bad form.  I am working on transforming the OneNote XML to Silverlight XAML using XSLT and having that portion of the XML escaped makes it more difficult to parse and ...

I have been working with XML for most of my career, from developing a CAD application to my roles at Mindjet to my new role at Microsoft talking about Silverlight.  In this career, I have given numerous talks about the relevance of XML and to be susinct, I have it boiled down to this: XML is about Partnerships.  Whether that ...

Here is a new solution for using XSLT to do web exports of MindManager Maps: XSLT Web Export

From it's inception in September 2005 to September 2006, I managed the content for the Mindjet Labs using MindManager.  I created a JavaScript and an XSL transformation that turned the XML of the map into the HTML pages that made up the Mindjet Labs site.  I have turned that Content Management System (CMS) into a Mindjet Labs ...

Version 1.0.0: Create Web Pages from maps using XSLT. Usage:Open a map in MindManagerFrom the File Menu, select File...Export...XSLT Web ExportDetails: This uses XSLT to generate web pages and this mechanism was used as a content management system to generate the Mindjet Labs website from September 2005-September 2006.  It uses Topic labels ...

Here is a new macro right out a Mindjet Labs Workshop: iShares: Mapping Exchange Traded Funds.  This takes a spreadsheet of financial data that shows asset allocation for an iShares Exchange Traded Fund and uses ADO, XSLT, and a style map to create a map of the asset allocation of the fund by sector.  Download the resulting map ...

Demonstration that shows how to transform an ADO recordset into a map using XSLT.  Background  Here is a demonstration fresh from a Mindjet Labs Workshop with Eric Davis, a consultant for from Barclays Global Investors.  He works with the iShares, Exchange Traded Funds (similar to mutual funds) and wanted a way of ...

What Box, You can import and export XML in a variety of ways, all of which are explained in the MindManager DevZone.  To access the DevZone, you will need to register with the partner program (free) first. Here are some ways to do this with XSL: Set up inbound/outbound XSL Transformations in the registryUse macros and MSXML to ...