I needed to use XSL to generate simple plain text output from XML. Since I didn't find any good, concise example online, I decided to post my solution here. Any links referring to a better example ...

I am developing a parser in ruby which parses some nonuniform text data. Can anybody tell me, where I can get a good number of plaintext data for that?

I've been working a great deal with GnuPG lately and have come to depend on its ability to encrypt files, etc. However, I am currently working on a couple of projects that involve communication (...

I want my app to open a plain text file with any of the file editors installed on my terminal, but I keep getting this exception: ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { ac...

I'm trying to get an empty line in a plain text email. I've tried with \n\n and with \r\n but in both cases, these characters are just displayed as normal text, instead of an empty line. What am I...

i'm triing to get this code to work on j2me (it is working a java program) but not yet in j2me public static String generate(String plaintext, String passphase) throws Exception { try { PBEKeyS...

I wrote some code to send email as both HTML & Text, and I am having having trouble testing it. On Thunderbird and Outlook, there is an option to view as plain-text, however I have a fee...

How can I include the content of a plain text file in a result document from within an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet? I.e., just like document(), but without parsing it: <xsl:value-of select="magic-metho...

I'm looking for a script to generate the graphical-ish textual representations of directory structures that you see around. Something that I can run like this: james@computer:/.../basedir$ listdir...

Many languages have functions which only process "plaintext", not binary. Does this mean that only characters within the ASCII range will be allowed? Binary is just a series of bytes, isn't it si...

First time reader, first time poster (woo!) So I've been implementing my login scripts for an informal website. Not likely to be compromised, but just to be safe, I'd like to ask if there's a secu...