XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible way to create common information formats and share both the format and the data on the World Wide Web, intranets, and elsewhere. XML is similar to the language of today's Web pages, the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Both XML and HTML contain markup symbols to describe the contents of a page or file. HTML, however, describes the content of a Web page (mainly text and graphic images) only in terms of how it is to be displayed and interacted with. For example, the letter "p" placed within markup tags starts a new paragraph

I had thought that we all would be buckling down to productive work by now, but I see that there still is some attention being paid to the idea that there is a correlation between OOXML Yes votes and the......   Read Article.

Balisage is probably not a term on everyone's tongue. Its original usage comes from the Navy - for a ship to travel "balisage" means that they are using special dimmed lights for navigation while in enemy territory, a term also......   Read Article.

I guess I am suffering from *OA overload. Trying to understand landscapes which are still developing and where religious and partisan statements happen frequently can be hard. Or maybe it's impossible. I am seeing too many *OAs these days. This......   Read Article.

i had the honor of meeting Guido Sohne when I attended the Microsoft Technology Summit this last March. I feel both honored and privileged to suggest that we quickly became friends. Guido was a good friend. Guido was a good......   Read Article.

As I pointed out in my post regarding Norm Walsh leaving Sun to join Mark Logic, And lastly, if the back channel rumor mills are correct, my guess is that this isn#8217;t the last big-name XML luminary we#8217;ll see moving......   Read Article.

If you are interested in seeing how XForms can be used as a development environment, I would suggest you check out the new Orbeon XForms Builder: http://www.orbeon.com/forms/builder This is a great example of "Eating your own dogfood" where a development......   Read Article.

The comments period for the XML 1.0 fifth edition revision finished last Friday 16th May. I didn't make a submission, in part because I felt I have had a good run in the past and my concerns are pretty well......   Read Article.

In a follow-up conversation to the post made by Dimitre Novatchev, Jesper Tverskov provides an excellent summary as to why XML and JSON are incompatible. He goes on to describe several functions in XSLT he feels would help alleviate at......   Read Article.

The recently published HTML 5 draft does not change anything regarding HTML fragment identifiers. They are still limited to IDs only (with a name=""> as alternative for backwards-compatibility). This means that any reference into an HTML page depends on how......   Read Article.

We easily forget, and I have been guilty of this many times, that technology serves business and not the other way around. YAML? Are you kidding me? Computers are fast and disk storage is cheap so I really am not interested in such minor efficiencies. Using indentation to distinguish hierarchy in data? That is very risky! This is not a programming...   Read Article.

Markup design fascinates me. What is it that makes one format easier to use than another? Why, even within that subset of markup that uses XML syntax, are some markup languages elegant and others unreadable? When is it best to......   Read Article.

Dimitre Novatchev recently posted the following to XSL-List, something of which I thought would be of both interest and benefit to those of you in Land-O-XML who care about things kinds of things. As such, ......   Read Article.

My wife is a rather amazing woman. In addition to being an amazing song writer, performer and guitarist, she is insanely smart, with a heart to help. This summer she will be helping out Girls Rock Camp. Austin also has......   Read Article.

Today I took some time to quickly scan through a backlog in my feed reader. There were a good number anti-XML articles cropping up. This got me thinking. What do you think of when I say "XML"? I personally associate......   Read Article.

.vbutton {padding:5px; border:groove 3px; background-color:#c0cCFF; color:white; font-family:Verdana; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:12pt; cursor:pointer;} .vbutton:hover {background-color:#e0e0ff;border:outset;} .vbutton:active {background-color:#a0a0ff;border:inset;} O'Reilly Video Since Google first presented a snapshot of the geoweb...   Read Article.

.vbutton {padding:5px; border:groove 3px; background-color:#c0cCFF; color:white; font-family:Verdana; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:12pt; cursor:pointer;} .vbutton:hover {background-color:#e0e0ff;border:outset;} .vbutton:active {background-color:#a0a0ff;border:inset;} O'Reilly Video James Greiner, Senior Vice President and General Manager,...   Read Article.

Paul Torrens (Arizona State University)--Ambient crowds are the new distributed computing platform. Smart mobs are fashioning new architectures for social networking. Armed with cell phones and mobile gaming devices, they are the new business model for location-based services. Seditious crowds are creating havoc in urban theaters of war and at global...   Read Article.

O'Reilly Video Geoff Zeiss (Autodesk, Inc.)--Convergence is about breaking down islands of information based on traditional disciplines or professional categories or those created by the traditional organization of the architecture, engineering, construction, transportation, and utility and telecommunications industries. The convergence......   Read Article.

O'Reilly Video Building on its influential predecessor chicagocrime.org, EveryBlock takes the local-data mashup to new levels. Founder and hacker Adrian Holovaty talks about the philosophy and technology behind EveryBlock, the untapped potential of address-specific news, open data, and life after......   Read Article.

I've just caught up with this document from W3C which fills in a big gap in English-language technical material. Japanese typesetting technology has been very influential in the other Ideographic countries, and they share many commonalities (e.g. Japanese ruby text......   Read Article.