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Lisa Rein

Lisa Rein is a co-founder of Creative Commons, a video blogger at On Lisa Rein's Radar, and a singer-songwriter-musican at lisarein.com. She is also a freelance journalist, writing for publications such as OpenP2P.com, XML.com, Wired News, CNET, Web Review, Web Techniques and many others.

Lisa is a volunteer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Internet Archive and teaches XML for the University of San Francisco. She is currently going for her Masters Degree in Broadcast Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University.

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The doctor will see you now

Using XML and other standards-based technologies, seafarers are no longer out to sea when it comes to specialized medical care. (Part 5)

How it works

Using XML and other standards-based technologies, seafarers are no longer out to sea when it comes to specialized medical care. (Part 4)


Standards to the rescue!

Using XML and other standards-based technologies, seafarers are no longer out to sea when it comes to specialized medical care. (Part 2)




Overview of P3P

A brief overview of the W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences framework.

The W3C, P3P and the Intermind Patent

What danger do claims of patent infringement hold for implementors of the W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences framework? Lisa Rein reviews the recent analysis issued by the W3C.



Is HTML+Time Out-of-Sync With SMIL?

Microsoft's HTML+Time submission is a proposed HTML extension for describing time-based media. Is this approach in conflict with the recently approved SMIL recommendation?

Live Data from WDDX

Software developers are finding out that XML can be used on many different levels for the representation of data structures used by programs written in different languages.

Developers Driving XML in Montreal

The XML Developers Conference in Montreal, convened by XML WG Chair Jon Bosak and sponsored by the GCA, was a great opportunity to cover the many fronts of XML development.



P3P: An Emerging Privacy Standard

The W3C has released the latest draft of a privacy protocol that should let agents work smoothly between browsers and web sites, in accordance with the user's preferences. Also, Microsoft and Trust-E have developed a wizard to help site owners create privacy guidelines.




The Quest for an XML Query Standard

A W3C workshop on query languages for XML produced a number of interesting proposals for extracting information more efficiently from XML documents.







Vector-based Binary Formats

Binary vector graphics formats such as those used in Macromedia's Flash are not based on XML, and tend to be proprietary formats. Macromedia has announced that the Flash file format will be made available as a potential standard.

VML

The Vector Markup Language submission is supported by Microsoft and likely will be deployed in IE5.

CGM and Web Schematics

CGM is an established graphics standard for the CAD industry. It has proven too complex for the Web. The Web Schematics submission looks at a much simpler version for 2D diagrams.

XHTML: Three Namespaces or One?

It sounds like a religious debate from the days of the Byzantine empire. Whether XHTML should have three namespaces or one has been a question that's consuming the top minds in the XML community for the last month.

PGML

The Precision Graphics Markup Language is an XML-based format based on the PostScript imaging model.

Structuring Graphical Data

Vector graphics differs from raster graphics in the way the graphical data structures are represented. Vector graphic formats can provide more information about the graphic and its context.

XML and Vector Graphics

A standard vector graphics format for the Web will provide lightweight Web graphics with more functionality and flexibility.