kintespace.com pages are being converted to XHTML
Converting kintespace.com to XHTML is a monumental task because automation is involved. We can’t just open up each page one by one in some editing program and click “Save as XHTML.” Nope. An entire custom publishing system had to be built to handle the XML in XHTML. This custom solution is based on the .NET framework. This is why this Blog rambles on about Microsoft developer tools (and related topics) and “post-modern” African being in the same space. The kinté space means to unify what we call “science” and “art” in this language. Yup.
So, some of you may have experienced strange poetry pages about 14 or more hours ago. The ‘space people’ poems lost all of their credits—they were replaced by a series of commas. So much for excellence in chocolate-colored technical skills in the early part of the 21st century… (Yawn.) Anyway, we caught the error (it was quite easy to catch when looking—it was disharmony between an XML set constructed in C# and the XSLT file for kinté prose and poetry) and corrected it. Much appreciation for your continuing support…
Since we are reporting technical failures, let me add that the kinté search page is no longer rendering strange characters. I have yet to find the comprehensive tutorial on re-encoding every character on hundreds of web pages in UTF-8. This matter is not “simple” it is primal. Such a foundational change is like removing all the floors in your house while still living there. Goofy shit is likely to happen—especially when a goofy guy like me is involved.
You Firefox users out there may be fortunate enough to have the Web Developer extension installed. You may see that some pages on kintespace.com are error free (valid XHTML)—but others have errors and warnings. Mostly this should be due to the page containing advertising content that is not XHTML-compliant.
It is exceedingly pleasant to talk about this conversion process in public. It should explain to the curious why so little has been going on at kintespace.com. We have great content but so many of you out there have already seen all of it and are waiting for more… Well, ‘waiting’ may be the wrong word… You see, folks, the attempt here is to invest in infrastructure development up front—instead of acting like corporate pirates rushing some crap to the market that falls apart while in motion. I do not have pimping skills so my shit has to drop in a solid toilet in a well-built plumbing system… Making kinté space play well with XML-based technologies should pay off in the long, long run.
But of course ‘they’ could just shut down the Web as we know it and this work may all be in vain…