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July 7, 2008

XForms + REST + XQuery (+ Jenni Tennison)

New, standards-based ways to build cool applications.

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July 1, 2008

The (SGML) geekiest shirt ever

"We're all special characters".

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April 25, 2008

In single-source publishing, what do you call the source?

The editorial XML?

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March 25, 2008

Customizing nxml to find your schemas automatically

By namespace or document element.

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January 27, 2008

Validating XML documents with PUBLIC identifiers and catalogs

And indenting them, and changing their encoding...

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December 5, 2007

XHTML 2 for authoring?

Suddenly it all made sense.

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November 20, 2007

Customized cookbooks

Pay for professional recipes, or do it the XML geek way.

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November 4, 2007

A nice free XML editor

(Of course, I'll continue to use Emacs in nxml mode.)

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September 14, 2007

Using Word for command line conversion of DOC files to XML

Or to RTF, or to whatever.

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July 30, 2007

Another great XML Summer School in Oxford

Despite some flooding here and there.

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July 1, 2007

XML Summer School in Oxford

Teaching and learning XML with old and new friends.

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June 13, 2007

developerWorks article on XHTML 2

Why I like XHTML 2.

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June 10, 2007

More on Word's mediocre XML

It's not just the index tag markup, but most of the "Insert Field" parts.

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May 31, 2007

Word 2003's awful XML for index elements

My "XML version of their RTF" joke has become too real to be funny anymore.

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April 13, 2007

Using XHTML 2 schemas

The RELAX NG kind, and maybe the XSD kind.

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April 6, 2007

James Clark's weblog

Read it, and pay close attention.

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March 28, 2007

New Eric van der Vlist book on Schematron out

As part of O'Reilly's "Short Cuts" series.

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March 27, 2007

Clever video about Web 2.0 and XML

Text in motion.

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December 10, 2006

Home from XML 2006

New things for the future, interesting things from the past.

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December 4, 2006

Settled in at XML 2006

The biggest annual XML event of them all.

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November 26, 2006

Word 2003 XML

Better than I expected, but good enough for a production system?

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July 31, 2006

XML summer school in Oxford

The Hogwarts of XML.

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June 27, 2006

TagSoup 1.0 released

A milestone for a very useful open source XML utility.

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May 26, 2006

XML: too flexible?

Some biologists really like relational databases.

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April 3, 2006

Document Engineering

An excellent book by Bob Glushko and Tim McGrath.

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March 25, 2006

XML, summer, and Oxford

Now in its sixth year!

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December 12, 2005

Scripting the addition of XML files to the eXist XQuery database

This wasn't documented very well, so once I got it to work I thought I'd post it.

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