<ol xmlns="">

As Kamiel Martinet pointed out, in any normal XSLT application you can overcome this by simply adding the xmlns to the stylesheet node.

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

However, this causes the Google Mini front end transformation to fail, resulting in the transformation to fail with the following message.

Internal error processing stylesheet.

This leaves me with the choice but to render invalid XHTML from the Google Mini transformation engine. One alternative solution is to use another transformation engine, but that is not an option for this current project.

When and if I find a solution to this, I will post it here.

For all enquiries, email info@brainfire.co.uk.

They sell three types of gloves:

Ultra Glove - these latex rubber gardening gloves provide thorn resistance and are great for pruning roses and pulling brambles.

Second Skin - their most popular glove, nitrile rubber thorn resistant gardening gloves, which are flexible great for potting, tying up plants and any jobs where you want to feel what you're doing. And they're thorn resistant!

Easy Fit - the latest gardening gloves are very light weight and great for every day use. will be available to buy soon available to buy now!

Each gardening glove has a cotton back and elasticated cuff keep all dirt and bugs out! Everyone who uses them thinks they're fantastic!

All I know about Brainfire Group is the following:

• They register domain names to the their address in Calgary, Canada
• They are involved in a number of domain name disputes with Nominet
• They have been involved in one of the few legal cases that have used Wikipedia as a court source

If you want to discover who has registered a domain name, use a WHOIS lookup such as the Geektools Whois tool.

This was the first time I used the jQuery library, which came in very handy for the unobtrusive JavaScript pop-ups.

Currently Living Designs appears eighth of page 2 in Google’s global search. Hopefully this will move up over the next week.

I'm quite happy with it though. I think it's pretty much bug free and it easy on the eyes. I used Strict XHTML and there's only two minor errors on the home page. I'm particularly proud of the menu, the date/venue details and the conference tab links because they use some snazzy CSS techniques. Works on all web standard Internet devices!

I'm very much looking forward to this opportunity and all the new challenges. I'll have a good platform to implement my skills and ideas as well as learn lots from the people there. Hopefully I'll be updating my portfolio very soon.

Click on tiny arrow near the letters, select a letter, drag the artist name into the light area, click the... no hold on, I don't give a damn anymore I've lost interest. Why make it so hard for potential customers to find your products? Correct me if I'm incorrect, but if you need to provide help on how to use a website menu, then it's probably not the best menu, now is it?
It's a very well put together piece of Flash. Once you've 'learnt' how to use it, it's not so bad and I guess it could be nice to browse an artist by year, but really, come on, it's too complicated.

Anyone else seen a bad menu lately?

This will also explain the lack of posts recently.

All working now though, and I must say - I really like Movable Type 3.2. It's a great piece of software with some clever little functions and now has a colourful interface.

With effect as of now… for anyone who's interested.

For examaple:

foo@domain.com [foo@domain.com]

I needed a quick way to identify each of these non-valid addresses and manipulate them into a usable format.

Step 1 - Identifying a bad address

With one address in each cell starting in cell A1, I placed the following formula in B1 to discover if A1 contained an opening square bracket.

=FIND("[",A1)

If A1 does contain a bracket, then B1 returns the numeric position of the first occurrence. If there is no bracket, then an error is returned. To avoid this error we can place an ISERROR statement around the FIND statement as follows:

=ISERROR(FIND("[",A1))

Now the B1 cell will return either TRUE or FALSE. Therefore if the cell in question does contain a square bracket, then there is no error and we need to do something, otherwise we'll be happy returning the valid email address. We can do this with the IF statement.

=IF(ISERROR(FIND("[",A1)),A1,"do something")

Step 2 - Locating the email address

The way I have chosen to return the email address is by extracting the string from inbetween the two square brackets. To do this I used the MID function. This allows me to return the characters from the middle of a text string, given a starting position and length.

=MID(text,start_num,num_chars)

The first property of this function is easy, A1. For the second part I need to find the opening bracket. This can be done by using the previous function FIND. As this returns the location of the bracket, I need to add 1 so the bracket itself is not returned.
For the last property (num_chars), I'll use FIND again, but as this property is a count and NOT the end position I need to subtract from the position of the first bracket.
The final MID function looks like this.

=MID(A1,FIND("[",A1)+1,(FIND("]",A1)-(FIND("[",A1)+1)))

Step 3 - Joining the two functions together

Copy and paste the MID function in place of the "do something" statement (whilst remembering to remove the = sign). The final statement looks like this:

=IF(ISERROR(FIND("[",A1)), A1, MID(A1,FIND("[",A1)+1,(FIND("]",A1)-(FIND("[",A1)+1))))

Step 4 - Apply to all rows

Now we simply double click the little square in the bottom-right corner of the A2 cell to copy this formula to the rest of the rows containing data. Then, copy column B paste the values into a new worksheet and save as a CSV.