The page 23 meme

[kerravonsen]

Tagged by drednort (grin)

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog, along with these instructions.
5.Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

Now that we're giddy with the excitement of having transformed an XML document, let's discuss the stylesheet and how it works. A big part of the XSLT learning curve is figuring out how stylesheets are processed. To make this clear, we'll go through the steps taken by the stylesheet processor to create the HTML document we want.

(I admit I fudged on "fifth sentence" there; it's a bit hard to determine whether figure captions count as "sentences".)

Tagging (but only if you want to be) reveilles, ladyslvr, tptigger and mistraltoes.

Comments

[wneleh.livejournal.com]

The two closest books to me are on Java and Perl. :-)

- Helen

[kerravonsen]

I keep on meaning to learn Java, but never seem to have any personal projects that seem worth the learning curve -- I usually end up doing it in Perl... 8-)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

The nearest one to me at this minute is Kaz Cooke's Dumb Feng Shui...

Dried flowers are not good Feng Shui. Instead arrange an attractive posy of dried prumes in a south-west corner.
It will attract good fortune.
And fruit bats.

I'm sure you needed to know that...

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

Heh, the nearest one to me is a folder of family history. Let's see: p 23 is a copy of a belated birth registration from 1912, for a child born to a couple of forebears from County Armagh, Ireland. This was a really, really belated birth record - the kid was born in 1856!

Doesn't really allow for a fifth sentence, though...

[watervole.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, how is Jacob?"
Which reveals how lucky you are. The book next to "Truth and Consequences" on my eye's shut dive into the shelf was one of my bondage collection...

But you only get one sentence, becasue my neck is hurting - and besides, you have the book yourself!

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{hugs}

I kid you not!

[aizain.livejournal.com]

"Somewhere in this wood there was the ruinous and haunted Chateau des Fausses-flammes; and, also, there was a double tomb, within which the Sieur Hugh du Malinbois and his chatelaine, who were notorious for sorcery in their time, had laid unconsecrated for more than two hundred years. Of these, and their phantoms, there were grisly tales; and there were stories of loup-garous and goblins, of fays and devils and vampires that infested Averoigne. But to these tales Gerard had given little heed, considering it unlikely that such creatures would fare abroad in open daylight."

From "A Rendezvous in Averoigne", by Clark Ashton Smith.

Re: I kid you not!

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They don't write them like they used to, do they?