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By Soenke Ziesche Dr. Soenke Ziesche describes how to use semantic wikis to provide a kind of queryable database of documents to support disaster response and humanitarian efforts at the United Nations. [Dec. 13, 2006] Forming Consensus By Micah Dubinko In his latest XML-Deviant column, Micah Dubinko outlines a plan for combining the XForms and Web Forms 2.0 communities. [May. 11, 2005] XQuery's Niche By Edd Dumbill XQuery has been much hyped, but is it sufficiently different from XSLT to be successful? Edd Dumbill follows a debate looking for XQuery's niche. [Dec. 29, 2004] The Cost of XML By Edd Dumbill The apparent overhead of using XML is once more in the spotlight, as is the financial overhead of using eBay's web services. Edd Dumbill reports. [Dec. 15, 2004] On Folly By Edd Dumbill XML-oriented programming languages? Crazy! The Semantic Web? Nuts! Or perhaps not. Edd Dumbill on how the crackpots were right all long. [Dec. 8, 2004] Faster, Faster! By Edd Dumbill Edd Dumbill reports on debate about making XML faster and leaner and offers the opportunity to send nominations for this year's XML Anti-Awards. [Dec. 1, 2004] XML 2004: After Declaring Victory, What's Next? By Kendall Grant Clark As part of our XML 2004 conference coverage, Kendall Clark files his first <taglines/> column, covering the first day of the conference in Washington, DC. [Nov. 17, 2004] XML, the Web, and Beyond By Edd Dumbill XML community coverage; browser technology and open content join traditional XML topics in the new-look XTech 2005 conference; plus debate on when multiple schemas are the best way forward. [Nov. 10, 2004] Introducing del.icio.us By Matt Biddulph Matt Biddulph introduces del.icio.us, the social bookmarks manager, by showing us how to interact with it programmatically via Python. [Nov. 10, 2004] How Do I Hate Thee? By Edd Dumbill Find out everyone's top five dislikes about XML, and get to the bottom of exactly why namespaces tops the list. [Nov. 3, 2004] Linkin' Park By Edd Dumbill One of the original trinity of XML specs, XML linking has largely failed. Can, and should, we fix it? [Oct. 27, 2004] The State of Python-XML in 2004 By Uche Ogbuji Uche Ogbuji reports on 74 Python-XML projects, giving us a status report on the state of Python-XML for 2004. [Oct. 13, 2004] Not Evil, Just Smelly By Edd Dumbill Hypertext guru Ted Nelson reckons XML is evil. XML folk reckon Nelson is mad. But is there truth in what he says? [Oct. 6, 2004] RDF Roundup By Edd Dumbill Edd Dumbill's report on XML community discussions covers how to write XML documents as RDF models and more incredulity at the WS-* web services specifications. [Sep. 22, 2004] Identifying Atom By Mark Pilgrim In his latest Dive into XML column, Mark Pilgrim reports on some of the hot topics in the IETF's development of Atom. [Aug. 18, 2004] Misconceive Early, Misconceive Often By Edd Dumbill Our XML community column examines the fallout from Mark Pilgrim's claim that XML on the Web has failed; plus the emerging use of an alternative to URIs in RDF. [Aug. 4, 2004] Eternal Refactoring By Edd Dumbill A summary of the latest happenings in the XML and RDF developer communities: refactoring specifications, Amazon wishlists in RDF, and XML as art. [Jul. 7, 2004] WWW2004 Semantic Web Roundup By Paul Ford Reporting from the WWW 2004 conference, Paul Ford surveys the state of the art in client and server side semantic web technology. [May. 26, 2004] The Courtship of Atom By Kendall Grant Clark The Atom syndication specification may move to a new home at the W3C. We look at the advantages this would bring to all concerned. [May. 19, 2004] Politics By Any Other Name By Kendall Grant Clark The recent News.com interview with Bob Glushko spawned a rash of debate among XML developers. The topic? Standards, of course! Kendall Clark offers his own views, and reports on the surrounding community debate. [May. 12, 2004] XML Europe 2004: Refactoring XML By Eric van der Vlist The recent XML Europe 2004 conference showed that it's time to use the experience gained in the last 6 years to optimize the use of XML. Eric van der Vlist reports on sessions from the show. [May. 5, 2004] The State of XML By Edd Dumbill In this closing keynote speech to XML Europe 2004, Edd Dumbill summarizes XML's recent changes and enduring strengths. [Apr. 21, 2004] The XML.com Interview: Jeff Barr By Edd Dumbill Amazon.com's web services API has met with broad success. Jeff Barr, Amazon's web services evangelist, speaks to Edd Dumbill. [Mar. 31, 2004] Growing Interest in XML Seen at AIIM Conference on Content and Records Management By Dale Waldt A report from the AIIM Content and Records Management conference and exposition from Dale Waldt, at which the interest and usage of XML grows ever stronger. [Mar. 24, 2004] The Beauty of REST By Jon Udell Through his LibraryLookup project, Jon Udell finds that you don't need to understand what REST is in order to benefit from its use in a system. [Mar. 17, 2004] Community Developments By Kendall Grant Clark After its long focus on the W3C TAG, the XML-Deviant returns its gaze to the XML developer world, taking in developments in RDDL and the new "genx" project. [Feb. 25, 2004] An Introduction to FOAF By Leigh Dodds Friend-of-a-friend, FOAF, is an RDF vocabulary for machine-readable homepages. It enables the expression of decentralized social networks akin to the centralized ones seen in Friendster and Orkut. Leigh Dodds provides an introduction to FOAF and its use. [Feb. 4, 2004] The TAG's Town Hall By Kendall Grant Clark Kendall Clark reports from the public question and answer session with the W3C's Technical Architecture Group, which took place as part of the XML 2003 conference. [Dec. 10, 2003] Intelligent Documents Headline XML 2003 By Edd Dumbill A report from the opening plenary session of IDEAlliance's XML 2003 conference and exposition in Philadelphia, PA, USA. [Dec. 9, 2003] Binary Killed the XML Star? By Kendall Grant Clark The results of the W3C's workshop on binary XML are less than satisfactory, says Kendall Clark. He also covers a recent and pertinent conversation on XML-DEV about SAX interfaces to binary formats. [Nov. 19, 2003] The Long, Long Arm of SGML By Kendall Grant Clark Commenting on Tim Bray's "UTF-8+names" proposal for creating memorable shortcuts for some Unicode code points, Kendall Clark sees the effort as part of XML's continuing struggle against the legacy of its SGML ancestry. [Nov. 5, 2003] A Web of Rules By Kendall Grant Clark In his second report from the International Semantic Web Conference, Kendall Clark discusses the importance of rules to the deployment of the Semantic Web, and highlights the importance of interaction between the academic and free software communities. [Oct. 23, 2003] Commercializing the Semantic Web By Kendall Grant Clark In the first of his reports from the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference, Kendall Clark discusses the path forward for successfully selling and developing Semantic Web technology into industry. [Oct. 22, 2003] ISO to Require Royalties? By Kendall Grant Clark The ISO, a worldwide standards body, is proposing to charge fees for commercial usage in software of their standardized country, language and currency codes. This would have a wide-ranging negative effect on the infrastructure of the web and related standards. Kendall Grant Clark explains the situation and argues against the ISO's proposal. [Sep. 24, 2003] Marking Up Bureaucracy By Paul Ford Needing to cope with its enormous needs for document and data exchange, the United States is looking more and more to XML. Paul Ford explains what happens when Washington meets markup. [Sep. 24, 2003] Typeless Schemas and Services By Rich Salz Strange as it may seem, top thinkers in web services are moving away from strongly typed models of data into a more document-centric service oriented model. Rich Salz charts this change in thinking. [Sep. 2, 2003] A Report From Extreme Markup Languages 2003 By James Mason Jim Mason, one of the co-chairs of the Extreme Markup Languages conference, reports on this recent annual gathering of deeply involved XML enthuasiasts and innovators. [Aug. 27, 2003] Binary XML, Again By Kendall Grant Clark The old chestnut of a binary encoding for XML has cropped up once more, this in time in serious consideration by the W3C. Kendall Clark comments on the announcement of the W3C's Binary XML Workshop. [Aug. 13, 2003] Vox Populi: Web Services From the Grassroots By Rich Salz In Rich Salz's latest column, he examines the effort to redefine simply site syndication, claiming that it's already technically superior to RSS 2.0. [Jul. 8, 2003] A Community Update By Kendall Grant Clark A bulletin from the XML developer community covering the growth of RELAX NG adoption, discussion on the W3C's approach to criticism and an update on the YAML experiment. [Jun. 11, 2003] Reports from XML Europe 2003 By Uche Ogbuji, Simon St. Laurent The annual XML Europe Conference took place in London, May 2003. This article collects together reports from XML.com writers Uche Ogbuji and Simon St.Laurent. [May. 21, 2003] The XML.com Interview: Steven Pemberton By Russell Dyer Russell Dyer talks to Steven Pemberton, the chair of the W3C's HTML Working Group, and an important influence on the development of the web over the last decade. [May. 21, 2003] Internationalizing the URI By Kendall Grant Clark Kendall Clark describes the hold-ups being suffered by XML due to the transition of URIs to their internationalized replacements, IRIs, as well as reviewing a slew of new XQuery drafts published by the W3C. [May. 7, 2003] At Microsoft's Mercy By Kendall Grant Clark The future of XML editing is pretty much in Microsoft's hands, writes Kendall Grant Clark, reporting on community reaction to the news that Microsoft Office 2003's much-hyped XML features will be restricted to the higher-end versions of the suite. [Apr. 23, 2003] The XML.com Interview: Liam Quin By Russell Dyer Russell Dyer talks to Liam Quin, XML Activity Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium, XML book author, and typography and markup enthuasiast. [Apr. 9, 2003] Truth in Advertising By Kendall Grant Clark A survey of recent discussion on the XML-DEV mailing list, including controversy about XML subsetting in JSR 172, whether there should be a central namespace registry, and whether XML-DEV should find a new home. [Mar. 12, 2003] The Return of XML Hypertext By Kendall Grant Clark Kendall Clark reports on the creation of a new mailing list focused on the use of XML for hypertext. [Jan. 22, 2003] Business at XML 2002 By Alan Kotok Rounding up the news from the business side of the recent XML 2002 conference, Alan Kotok reports an increase in government clients for XML businesses. [Jan. 8, 2003] Reports from XML 2002 By Eric van der Vlist Eric van der Vlist describes highlights of the XML 2002 conference held in Baltimore, including Microsoft Office 11, OpenOffice, ISO DSDL, schema language techniques and literate programming in XML. [Dec. 18, 2002] RPV: Triples Made Plain By Kendall Grant Clark Kendall Grant Clark looks at a recent proposal for an alternative XML syntax for RDF: Tim Bray's RPV syntax. [Nov. 20, 2002] RDF, What's It Good For? By Kendall Grant Clark Kendall Grant Clark ponders the hidden benefits of RDF, and examines the XML-DEV community response to a recent XML.com article on making XML documents RDF-friendly. [Nov. 13, 2002] Standards For Electronic Instructional Materials By Alan Kotok A bill proposed to the U.S. Congress seeks to create an electronic standard for instruction materials that will help visually disabled schoolchildren. [Nov. 6, 2002] Community and Specifications By Kendall Grant Clark Kendall Clark surveys recent discussion in the XML community, covering XML 1.1, security considerations with XInclude and whether it takes James Clark to create a successful specification. [Oct. 30, 2002] TAG's Iron Fist By Edd Dumbill The W3C's Technical Architecture Group's condemnation of HLink has met with an angry response. Edd Dumbill says that the TAG's approach isn't good for the web or for the W3C. [Oct. 2, 2002] XMLPULL: A Response By Stefan Haustein, Aleksander Slominski The creators of the XMLPULL API for Java respond to Elliotte Rusty Harold's recent review of their API on XML.com [Sep. 25, 2002] Look Ma, No Tags By Kendall Grant Clark XML's success can be measured not only in terms of deployment, but also in terms of inspiring competitors. Kendall Clark examines one such tagless competitor, YAML. [Jul. 24, 2002] Watching TAG Again By Kendall Grant Clark Kendall Clark provides an update on the progress of the W3C's Technical Architecture Group, responsible for overseeing the architecture of the Web. [Jul. 3, 2002] Variables and Paths By John E. Simpson In this month's Q&A column, John Simpson answers questions about XSLT variables and XML document paths. [Jun. 26, 2002] If Ontology, Then Knowledge: Catching Up With WebOnt By Kendall Grant Clark An examination of the aims and achievements to date of the W3C's Web Ontology Working Group, who are tasked with creating an ontology language for the Semantic Web. [May. 1, 2002] XML Namespaces 1.1 By Leigh Dodds This week's Deviant examines the Namespaces 1.1 Working Draft, as well as its goals and likely impact on XML processors and development practices. [Apr. 10, 2002] W3C XML Schema Needs You By Leigh Dodds In this week's Deviant column the issue of interoperability and specification conformance of XML Schema processors is discussed. [Mar. 27, 2002] In a Lather About Security By Leigh Dodds This week's XML-Deviant column recounts a recent discussion about the security of SOAP, RPC, and REST. [Feb. 27, 2002] U.S. Federal XML Guidelines By Alan Kotok The US Government's guidelines for use of XML in Federal agencies shows an encouraging appreciation of XML, but also highlights the difficulties inherent in drafting such guidelines. [Feb. 6, 2002] The Value of Names in Attributes By Kendall Grant Clark The struggle with namespaces in XML continues in the developer community. Recent discussion has centered on the wisdom of the use of qualified names in attribute values by languages such as XSLT and W3C XML Schema. [Feb. 6, 2002] Document Associations By Leigh Dodds The Deviant column examines the relation of namespaces and document types, as well as multi-typed documents, in the context of XML processing models. [Jan. 30, 2002] TAG: Managing the Complex Web By Kendall Grant Clark A look at the first substantive issues under discussion by the W3C's new Technical Architecture Group. [Jan. 23, 2002] Bright Year In Prospect For XML By Edd Dumbill Edd Dumbill reviews some of the promising areas of XML for the coming year, including presentation technologies and a renaissance in independent contributions to XML. [Jan. 16, 2002] All We Want For Christmas is a WSDL Working Group By Timothy Ewald, Martin Gudgin Our web services columnists reckon the WSDL interface language needs more work and try to engage the assistance of Santa Claus in their quest. [Dec. 19, 2001] Patents and Web Standards Town Hall Meeting By Michael Champion A report from the "town hall" meeting at XML 2001 on patents and their interaction with W3C standards. [Dec. 19, 2001] Versioning Problems By Leigh Dodds The publication of the first draft of XML 1.1 is the cause of much dissent in the XML community. [Dec. 19, 2001] Far from Patchy Progress By Leigh Dodds Leigh Dodds reviews the recent history of the Apache XML project, its the latest SOAP developments, and concludes that Apache XML has matured considerably. [Dec. 5, 2001] Wrap Your App By Leigh Dodds Leigh Dodds reports on recent community conversations about solving the XML application packaging problem. [Nov. 21, 2001] DOM and SAX Are Dead, Long Live DOM and SAX By Kendall Grant Clark The XML developer community finds that DOM is often inappropriate, while SAX is too hard to grasp. The XML-Deviant covers a discussion on the usage and future for these APIs. [Nov. 14, 2001] XML and Databases? Follow Your Nose By Leigh Dodds Leigh Dodds explores the sometimes pungent, often sweet world of XML-database integration requirement smells. [Oct. 24, 2001] Patent Wars: The W3C Strikes Back By Kendall Grant Clark In response to massive public comment on their proposed patent policy, the W3C has responded, inviting noted open source advocates to help them shape the policy. [Oct. 17, 2001] Patents, Royalties, and the Future of the Web By Kendall Grant Clark The W3C's proposal to allow royalty-encumbered patented technology into Web standards has attracted much criticism and debate. Kendall Clark provides a comprehensive overview of the controversy. [Oct. 10, 2001] Being Too Generous By Leigh Dodds Leigh Dodds reports on the community's so far successful efforts to convince Microsoft to fix XML conformance bugs in IE6. [Sep. 19, 2001] Pork Barrel Protocols By Timothy Ewald, Martin Gudgin XML.com's newest column, XML Endpoints, which is devoted to exploring web services, debuts by asking what a web service really is and what it shouldn't be. [Sep. 12, 2001] Dividing Factors By Leigh Dodds Leigh Dodds searches the fault lines of the XML development community and finds that a desire for technological diversity is the new epicenter. [Sep. 5, 2001] A Path to Enlightenment By Leigh Dodds Leigh Dodds takes us for stroll down the path of XML complexity, seeking the enlightenment of simplicity. [Aug. 29, 2001] A New Kind of Namespace By Edd Dumbill Light finally dawns in XML-DEV on the reason behind the inclusion of locally-scoped element names in W3C XML Schema. [Aug. 22, 2001] Opening Old Wounds By Leigh Dodds Leigh Dodds discusses the interpretation of namespaces and XML Schema and, in the process, highlights an important flaw in the W3C's specification process. [Aug. 8, 2001] Doing it Simpler By Leigh Dodds Dodds recaps the history of SML-DEV's efforts to simplify XML, including Common XML, MinML, and YAML. He then examines where SML-DEV may be going next. [Aug. 1, 2001] The Collected Works of SAX By Leigh Dodds Dodds reports on XML-DEV's latest efforts to enhance the SAX API and to build a standard library of SAX tools. [Jul. 18, 2001] Sunshine and Blueberries By Leigh Dodds Leigh Dodds explores the issues behind the W3C's newly-forming Technical Architecture Group, as well as giving an update on XML Blueberry. [Jul. 11, 2001] Preview: O'Reilly XTech 2001 Conference on XML By Edd Dumbill O'Reilly's XTech 2001 will be held from July 23-27 in San Diego, California. The conference chair, Edd Dumbill, previews this essential meeting for XML developers. [Jun. 20, 2001] Time for Consolidation By Leigh Dodds Is XML changing the way applications are being designed? If so, what tools should you use to model these applications? [Jun. 6, 2001] Schema Scuffles and Namespace Pains By Edd Dumbill W3C XML Schema is complete. End of story? No way! Debates over Schema best practice have dominated XML-DEV over recent weeks. [May. 30, 2001] Around and About at XML Europe 2001 By Edd Dumbill Pictures and notes from the GCA's XML Europe 2001 conference. [May. 25, 2001] Reports from WWW10 By Edd Dumbill Highlights from the 10th International World Wide Web conference, which took place last week in Hong Kong. [May. 9, 2001] Parsing the Atom By Leigh Dodds Not every piece of data the XML programmer has to deal with comes neatly packaged in angle brackets. XML developers have been examining how W3C XML Schema could help out. [Apr. 25, 2001] XSLT UK 2001 Report By Jeni Tennison Earlier this month Keble College, Oxford, England was the setting for the first ever conference dedicated to XSLT. XSLT expert Jeni Tennison reports on the proceedings. [Apr. 25, 2001] Intuition and Binary XML By Leigh Dodds Binary encodings for XML is a well-worn topicon XML-DEV, yet last week's revisiting of the debate introduced some interesting new evidence. [Apr. 18, 2001] Practical Internationalization By Edd Dumbill An interview with Tim Bray about the joys and pains of implementing a truly internationalized web application. [Apr. 18, 2001] XP Meets XML By Leigh Dodds The XML-Deviant has been watching advocates of the latest trend in software development, Extreme Programming, get to grips with XML. At least they have acronyms in common. [Apr. 4, 2001] A Brief History of SOAP By Don Box An insider's view of the last three years of SOAP's development, its relationship with W3C XML Schema, and an assessment of where XML protocols should go next. [Apr. 4, 2001] Schemas by Example By Leigh Dodds There has been a lot of activity in the area of XML schema languages recently: with several key W3C publications and another community proposed schema language. [Mar. 28, 2001] Extensions to XSLT By Leigh Dodds Members of the XSL mailing list have started a commnunity-based project to standardize extensions for XSLT. [Mar. 14, 2001] Knowledge Technologies 2001: Conference Diary By Edd Dumbill The inaugural Knowledge Technologies conference brought together members of diverse communities, all concerned with managing knowledge: from RDF and Topic Maps to AI. [Mar. 7, 2001] Toward an XPath API By Leigh Dodds Since XSLT and XPointer rely on XPath, developers are asking whether an XPath API should be created. [Mar. 7, 2001] XML Ain't What It Used To Be By Simon St. Laurent Current XML development at the W3C threatens to obliterate the original promise of XML by piling on too many features and obscuring what XML does best. [Feb. 28, 2001] Does XML Query Reinvent the Wheel? By Leigh Dodds XML developers contend that the overlap between XML Query and XSLT is so great that they aren't separate languages at all. [Feb. 28, 2001] Answering the Namespace Riddle By Leigh Dodds Dodds introduces RDDL, the Resource Directory Description Language, the result of a recent project conducted by the XML developer community to make XML namespaces easier to use. [Feb. 28, 2001] Time to Refactor XML? By Leigh Dodds The growing interdependency between XML specifications is causing concern among XML developers -- is this just a case of sensible reuse, or are we creating a dangerously tangled web of standards? [Feb. 21, 2001] XML on the Move By Edd Dumbill A report from XML DevCon Europe, London. On the first day of the conference, Henry Thompson spoke on XML Schemas and the XML Infoset, and David Orchard gave an overview of the world of web services. [Feb. 21, 2001] XSLT Extensions Revisited By Leigh Dodds The first Working Draft of XSLT 1.1, though attempting to address the portability of stylesheets that use extension functions, has failed to please everyone in the XSLT developer community. [Feb. 14, 2001] The Politics of Schemas: Part 2 By Kendall Grant Clark Having established in the first half of this essay that schemas are essentially political, this second installment examines the relevance of this to the XML community, and avenues for further consideration. [Feb. 7, 2001] Schemarama By Leigh Dodds For the past two weeks XML-DEV has seen fascinating exchanges between three inventors of alternative XML schema proposals. [Feb. 7, 2001] The Politics of Schemas: Part 1 By Kendall Grant Clark As the world is codified one schema at a time, what are the consequences and implications? This first half of a two-part essay examines why schemas are essentially political. [Jan. 31, 2001] Dictionaries and Datagrams By Leigh Dodds XML developers have been reexamining the textual encoding of XML, addressing concerns of verbosity and multilingual elements. [Jan. 24, 2001] XPointer and the Patent By Leigh Dodds Does a Sun patent threaten the future of hypertext on the web, or are XML developers getting unnecessarily alarmed by the licensing terms on the XPointer spec? The XML-Deviant reports. [Jan. 17, 2001] A Scalable Process for Information Standards By Jon Bosak The Chair of the OASIS Process Advisory Committee explains how OASIS has developed a standards process to cater for the fast-moving world of XML. [Jan. 17, 2001] Old Ghosts: XML Namespaces By Leigh Dodds The XML Namespaces ghost returned to haunt the XML community this Christmas. However, developers on XML-DEV fought back with a new proposal to bring predictability to the use of URIs as namespace identifiers. [Jan. 10, 2001] OASIS Technical Committee Work By Karl F. Best The mission of OASIS is to promote and encourage the use of structured information standards such as XML and SGML. This report describes the work in which OASIS is currently engaged. [Jan. 3, 2001] The 12 Days of XML Christmas By Leigh Dodds A light-hearted review of XML developer community 2000 as seen through the watchful eye of the XML-Deviant. [Dec. 27, 2000] Getting Topical By Simon St. Laurent At the recent XML 2000 conference the XML Topic Maps (XTM) specification made an impressive debut. Simon St.Laurent reviews the development and prospects of XTM. [Dec. 20, 2000] XML 2000 Coverage Reports and reviews from the largest XML conference of the year. [Dec. 13, 2000] Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web Vision By Edd Dumbill In a keynote session at XML 2000 Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, outlined his vision for the Semantic Web. [Dec. 6, 2000] Developers' Day at XML 2000 By Edd Dumbill The XML Developers' Day at XML 2000, chaired by Jon Bosak, was composed of "late-breaking" developments in XML, and provided many valuable insights into developing XML systems. [Dec. 5, 2000] What's in a Name? By Leigh Dodds The XML-Deviant looks at best practices for identifying XML resources; then wonders why more developers aren't taking advantage of entity management systems. [Nov. 29, 2000] Should XML Become a "Real" Standard? By Edd Dumbill XML standards developers gathered Monday night at XML DevCon Fall 2000 in San Jose to discuss the future of XML as a standard. [Nov. 14, 2000] Primed for the Semantic Web By Leigh Dodds Last week's article on the Semantic Web has sparked discussion among the RDF developer community, who are considering the nature of the Semantic Web and how it might be implemented. [Nov. 8, 2000] An Introduction to Dublin Core By Eric Miller, Stuart Weibel You may have heard of the Dublin Core metadata element set before, but who is behind it, and what do they want to achieve? The leaders of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative explain what they do and where they're headed. [Oct. 25, 2000] Dublin Core in the Wild By Dale Dougherty The recent Dublin Core Metadata Initiative meeting provided an opportunity for O'Reilly Network to discover more about Dublin Core and to explore its relationship with RSS. [Oct. 25, 2000] Of Standards and Standard Makers By Leigh Dodds The debate over who makes XML standards and how they are made rumbles on. This week the XML-Deviant examines the W3C and asks whether its Semantic Web initiative informs or hinders comprehension of their mission. [Oct. 25, 2000] The Rush to Standardize By Leigh Dodds Keeping track of the number of consortia in the XML space is rapidly requiring the effort needed to track the burgeoning number of specifications. Is all this "standardization" too premature? XML-Deviant covers the recent debate. [Oct. 18, 2000] The Benevolent Dictator of SAX By Leigh Dodds As David Megginson gets ready to hand over the reins of SAX, the community-developed Simple API for XML, a successor must be found. [Oct. 4, 2000] Schemas in the Wild By Leigh Dodds As adoption of W3C XML Schema technology increases, the need for documenting best practices is becoming more important, not least where namespaces are concerned. The XML-Deviant investigates. [Sep. 27, 2000] Super Model By Leigh Dodds Growing interest in RDF is seeing renewed work to increase understanding of the specification, including a move to separate RDF's simple data model from its oft-maligned syntax. [Sep. 20, 2000] Gentrifying the Web By Leigh Dodds XHTML promises to civilize the unruly mass of HTML on the Web. But is anybody listening? Leigh Dodds examines whether web developers know or care about XHTML. [Sep. 13, 2000] Instant RDF? By Leigh Dodds RDF has some devoted followers, but is yet to hit the XML mainstream. Many believe this is because of its complicated syntax. XML-Deviant investigates the quest for "instant RDF". [Aug. 30, 2000] A Few Bumps By Edd Dumbill Some problems are due to success, some are growing pains, and some just refuse to go away. XML has all of these, chronicled as ever by the XML-Deviant. [Aug. 9, 2000] Second Coming By Leigh Dodds This week XML-Deviant reports on the progress with XML Schemas, and an upcoming consolidation of the XML 1.0 errata into a second edition of the specification. [May. 31, 2000] Namespace Trouble By Leigh Dodds This week XML Deviant reports on a Namespace-related debate holding up XML work at the W3C, and the final release of SAX2/Java. [May. 17, 2000] When XML Gets Ugly By Simon St. Laurent What are the security consequences for a Web full of XML? Co-chair David Megginson used his keynote speech at XTech 2000 to focus on this issue. [Mar. 2, 2000] Relax, and Take it Easy By Simon St. Laurent Delegates to XTech 2000 on Wednesday were shown two technologies aimed at making their lives easier: EasySAX, a Python XML processor, and RELAX, a simplified schema language. [Mar. 2, 2000] Conference Sketch By Edd Dumbill This week, XML-Deviant is in San Jose for the XTech 2000 conference. Seeing XML-DEV in the flesh is a rare experience: read on for highlights of the XML Schema Town Hall meeting. [Mar. 1, 2000] "XML Father" leaves W3C for OASIS By Edd Dumbill Jon Bosak, the "Father of XML," announced to delegates at XTech 2000 today that he is stepping down from W3C activity and devoting his energies to OASIS. [Feb. 29, 2000] Cool XUL Provides Cross-Platform UI By Edd Dumbill In an afternoon session Tuesday, Eric Krock presented XUL, Mozilla's cross-platform user interface language utilizing XML, DOM, and CSS. [Feb. 29, 2000] Putting XML to Work at XTech 2000 By Edd Dumbill Next week XTech 2000 will begin in San Jose, California. XML.com will be bringing you daily coverage from the conference. To help you plan your meeting attendance at XTech 2000, we have also created an online conference organizer. [Feb. 21, 2000] Wishful Thinking By Edd Dumbill XML-Deviant is a new weekly column on XML.com, providing reports from the XML developer mailing lists. This week's happenings include wishful thinking from Peter Murray-Rust, and a DTD for sharing recipes. [Jan. 5, 2000] Reports from XML'99 By Edd Dumbill Last week XML.com provided coverage of the GCA's XML'99 conference in Philadelphia. Over 2,200 delegates gathered to attend tutorials, see the products on show in the expo and listen to the presentations. [Dec. 15, 1999] XML'99 Coverage on XML.com By Edd Dumbill XML.com is proud to be a co-host of XML'99, running from December 5-9 in Philadelphia. We'll be bringing you daily coverage from the show, highlighting interesting technologies and products. [Dec. 3, 1999] Report from Montreal By Lisa Rein Lisa Rein reports from MetaStructures 99 and XML Developers' Day. [Aug. 25, 1999] The Code of the XML Geeks By Peter Murray-Rust Our XML:geek columnist comes to the rescue of geek code users, and takes XML itself as the extension to the geek code. [Oct. 3, 1998] |
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