Tag: xml

Mars

a reformulation of pdf in xml. if svg were not such a clusterfuck, this would be more exciting. still, has some promise.

Is Office Open XML A 1-Way Standard?

it would take ~150 person-years to fully implement office xml in a competing product.. oy

New RDF syntax

looks slightly more readable than RDF/XML, but that is a very low hurdle

Schema language Family tree

when do we get to kill XSD, again?

ISO Public Standards

signs of reform? the ISO is putting some standards outside of the paywall, including schematron, relax ng, C, JPEG2000, old OSI crap, and ECMAScript

Yulup

oy, yet another xml editor from wyona. these guys truly have infinite time on their hands

Bridging the X-O-R impedance mismatch?

Cω looks like a worthwhile effort on the road to eventually unifying the dominant 3 data models of today, XML, objects and relational. at a first glance, it seems to sidestep some of the really hard problems by defining a zoo of new types to accommodate these 3 worlds. the eventual solution will have to do better than this, but it’s a start. groovy seems to have similar features for the java world.

Fallacies of validation

roger costello’s fallacies of validation are well worth a read to broaden your validation horizon. (via edd)

Xpath scraping

mnot: xpath2rss. more xpath search tools are always welcome to make the case for more semistructured data. full disclosure: i am a doc-head.

XML lessons

andrew orlowski (who, by the way, is very non-acerbic in person) had a insightful presentation at xml summer school. also very interesting: peter rodgers on the 1060 netkernel. which shares many resemblances with cocoon, but goes further. also, my own slides.