D3.js - Data-Driven Documents. Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools. Linkeddata. Infographic tools. Open Source Graph-Document NoSQL dbms. Open Source Native XML Database. BaseX | The XML Database. Writing with XML. For quite a while now, I've been doing most of my writing using XML - even to the point of writing my last book in XML. As I've mentioned this to people they've asked me a number of questions about my experiences, and that's been enough to prompt this little article on the whole thing. How I got started First steps - the refactoring catalog I began working with XML around 2000, when my refactoring book came out. I'd already set up a web site, and decided to add a new site to act as a portal of information about refactoring.
On that site I list all the refactorings in my book (together with a few others) and decided to use XML to store the refactorings, that way I hoped that it would be easier to edit and update them. On the whole I found web site work a bit of a pain. I've always been a fan of logical styles when writing. Although my efforts with the refactoring catalog were somewhat crude (or at least they seem that way to me now) I was very pleased with how the process all worked.