Community
 
Announcing Planet XMLhack
14:23, 30 Sep 2004 UTC | Edd Dumbill

Although we don't have time to write XMLhack stories at the moment, we're pleased to announce the launch of a new service, Planet XMLhack, aggregating weblogs of the XML developer community.
 
Comment
 
That's all for now
08:54, 17 May 2004 UTC | Edd Dumbill

It's been a lot of fun writing XMLhack since 1999, but it's time for us to take a rest.
 
Tools
 
TeXML: an XML vocabulary for TeX
11:10, 13 Apr 2004 UTC | Oleg Paraschenko

TeXML is an XML vocabulary for TeX. The processor transforms TeXML markup into the TeX markup, escaping special and out-of-encoding characters. Intended audience is developers who convert documents from XML to TeX.
 
Community
 
Panel discusses SQL, XML, Web Services, and Grid Computing
08:28, 10 Apr 2004 UTC | Ron Bourret

In a panel discussion at Software Development 2004 entitled "Marrying SQL, XML, Web Services and Grid Computing", Peter Coffee of eWEEK magazine best summarized the state of these four technologies when he said that customers would not abandon SQL, wanted to use XML to repurpose data, and considered Web Services the default implementation strategy for many projects. On the other hand, they felt grid computing was still three to five years away.
 
Community
 
Registration deadline near for XML Europe 2004
20:18, 31 Mar 2004 UTC | Edd Dumbill

There's only a few days left to sign up for the tutorials and presentations at XML Europe 2004, the major European gathering of the XML world. The conference will be held from 18-21 April in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
 
Community
 
XML Europe 2004 late-breaking talks finalized
20:11, 29 Mar 2004 UTC | Edd Dumbill

The schedule for XML Europe 2004 (April 19-21, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) has been finalized. In addition to keynotes from Amazon's Jeff Barr and the W3C's Steven Pemberton, the late-breaking talks add news from the most recent work in the XML world.
 
Namespaces
 
A RDDL repository of core datatypes
16:08, 26 Mar 2004 UTC | Eric van der Vlist

The French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) has published a first release (in French) of their identification and classification XML datatypes as a RDDL repository.
 
Tools
 
RNV: C-based Relax NG validator
06:47, 26 Feb 2004 UTC | Michael Smith

RNV is a command-line tool for validating XML documents against schemas written in Relax NG compact syntax. Developed by David Tolpin and written in portable ANSI C, it's fast, lightweight, and provides very good reporting about validity errors in documents.
 
Tools
 
libxml 2.6.7 and libxslt 1.1.3 released
06:05, 26 Feb 2004 UTC | Michael Smith

Daniel Veillard has recently released updated versions of libxml and libxslt. An important security fix is included, along with some improvements and optimizations and bug fixes.
 
Databases
 
XML and Databases article translated
22:28, 19 Feb 2004 UTC | Ron Bourret

The article "XML and Databases", by Ronald Bourret, has recently been translated into French and Chinese.
 
W3C
 
Why XML 1.1?
18:41, 10 Feb 2004 UTC | Eric van der Vlist

The W3C has published XML 1.1 and namespaces in XML 1.1, two recommendations which don't change that many things but may have an important impact for XML applications, unless they are ignored by a vast majority.
 
Tools
 
xmlformat: Consistently format XML files
13:13, 4 Feb 2004 UTC | Michael Smith

xmlformat is a REX-based script (take your pick from Perl or Ruby versions) for consistently reformatting XML files; that is, "canonizing" and normalizing whitespace, indenting, line-wrapping, and placement of line breaks. It works as advertised, handling mixed content and "verbatim" content correctly.
 
Community
 
XML data formats take center stage in the Financial Services industry
05:11, 27 Jan 2004 UTC | Uche Ogbuji

A conference focusing on XML in the Financial Services industry casts doubt on the conventional wisdom about Web services and the role of tightly-coupled middleware in real-world XML developments.
 
Community
 
Extreme Markup Languages 2004
21:06, 1 Jan 2004 UTC | Edd Dumbill

Originally announced at XML 2003, the Call for Participation for Extreme Markup 2004 is now open. The conference will be held from 3-6 August in Montréal, Canada.
 
Community
 
Reminder of XML Europe 2004 Call for Participation
16:49, 31 Dec 2003 UTC | Edd Dumbill

The deadline for submissions to XML Europe 2004 is imminent -- January 5, 2004. The conference will take place from April 18-21 2004 in Amsterdam.
 
Schemas
 
XML 2003 session report: Namespace Routing Language
17:28, 22 Dec 2003 UTC | Uche Ogbuji

 
W3C
 
Semantic web specs step forward: RDF, OWL to PR
12:26, 22 Dec 2003 UTC | Edd Dumbill

The W3C has released a slew of new semantic web technology Proposed Recomendations, related to the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the OWL Web Ontology Language.
 
Schemas
 
XML 2003 session report: Combining multiple vocabularies without tears
23:24, 20 Dec 2003 UTC | Uche Ogbuji

At XML 2003 Murata Makoto discussed how efforts towards ISO Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) (ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 34 WG 1) Part 4 addressed the problem of writing schemata for non-monolithic vocabularies.
 
Schemas
 
XML 2003 session report: News from the world of DSDL
15:40, 15 Dec 2003 UTC | Uche Ogbuji

Eric van der Vlist kicked off a block of presentations opening up the world of ISO Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) (ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 34 WG 1), and some of the innovative work being undertaken in that working group.
 
Schemas
 
RELAX NG now a full ISO International Standard
12:00, 15 Dec 2003 UTC | Michael Smith

James Clark has announced that the RELAX NG schema language was published by the ISO as an International Standard on December 1st.
 
  
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