A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 3 November, 2003.
Report From the W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item SetsThe Workshop concluded that the W3C should do further work in this area, but that the work should be of an investigative nature, gathering requirements and use cases, and prepare a cost/benefit analysis; only after such work could there be any consideration of whether it would be productive for W3C to attempt to define a format or method for non-textual interchange of XML
Web Based DocBook v4.2 ValidatorOnline validator supports DocBook v.4.2, XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01.