A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 19 December, 2002.
SOAP Version 1.2 Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendationfrom Edd Dumbill at 18:30, 19 DecCR review period ends 24 January 2003, short because "implementations are already well underway."
XML Class Blogfrom Simon St.Laurent at 14:34, 19 DecA different perspective on XML, from a class at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) using a blog as part of the course.
XML-DEV discusses .NET XML standards compliancefrom Edd Dumbill at 01:37, 19 DecMost illuminating quote so far
from Doug Ransom: "you can write standard-compliant code with .NET if you really go out of your way," an argument which ends in his urging the somewhat improbable action of adjusting the XML spec to match the .NET XML behavior.
FOAFlogfrom Edd Dumbill at 00:48, 19 DecA weblog-style site covering news from the Friend-of-a-Friend project, which uses RDF to model personal data and relationships
XML Watch forum on developerWorksfrom Edd Dumbill at 00:41, 19 DecA forum associated with my "what's new and interesting in XML" column has been set up on IBM developerWorks.