Andrew Ho Resume
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This is my resume. I've always kept at least three versions of my
resume: one for print, one in HTML for the web, and one in text to
e-mail to engineers and submit to text resume submission forms.
Previously, I had three seperate source files to make this happen. One
was in LaTeX, which I used with the hyperref package for generating
hyperlinked PDF files with Adobe Acrobat; one in HTML, for on-line
viewing and searching; and a final version in plain ASCII text, suitable
for e-mailing.

Keeping these three versions synchronized was a royal pain. I treated
the LaTeX (and hence PDF) version as definitive, cut-and-pasted the text
into the HTML document, and used a simple Perl script and Lynx to
reformat the HTML into an attractive text document. It occurred to me
that keeping the information in a structured format would be profitable
both for my own convenience, and as a learning experience.

Accordingly, the latest incarnation of my resume is a structured XML
document which is parsed by a Perl script and output to each desired
file format: text, HTML, and hyperlinked PDF.

The bulk of this code was originally written in 2000, and was my first
experience with parsing XML. If I were to write my resume from scratch
today, I'd probably use XSLT stylesheets to solve this problem (probably
still with a final custom HTML to text conversion step, as XSLT doesn't
really solve the old-fashioned text justification problem). But the bulk
of the work would be to reproduce the painstakingly crafted templates
themselves, so this doesn't seem justified at the moment.

See INSTALL for the summary of how to actually generate the resume.


Resume.pm
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Hindsight shows that Resume.pm might better be called XML::Dispatch, as
it is a general-purpose subclass of XML::Parser which throws a dispatch
table of subroutines at XML code. Each time an XML tag is encountered,
the subroutine pointed at in the dispatch table by that tag is run, with
the enclosed text as an argument. The behavior is hence similar to the
XML::DT module, but stylistically less idiosyncratic.

Following standard Perl procedure, documentation is embedded in
Resume.pm in POD (Plain Old Documentation) format. If you have a
standard Perl install, view this documentation by typing:

  % perldoc Resume.pm

Or, search for the string "=head" in Resume.pm.


Copyright and Contact Information
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The resume XML source, any Perl code which processes it, and the
processed output are all copyright (C) 2000-2003 Andrew Ho. The Perl
code may be freely redistributed, copied, or edited, as long as credit
is given for its original source.

Andrew can be reached at andrew@zeuscat.com.


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