Results tagged “standards” from O'Reilly News

After returning home from a two-week vacation, Dr. Michael Kay reveals what's next on tap for the XSLT Working Group at the W3C: Streaming XML Transformations. Will the combination of a Schema-Aware XSLT processor, streaming XML, and XMPP completely change the way we both think about and implement message processing solutions in the future? It's certainly possible.
A new edition of the standard currency codes is out. Currency adoption shows the geo-economic affiliation of countries. Plus polymer banknote links.
Openness: the survivalist's ideal becomes the authoritarian's buzzword
An essential issue for making sure the good survivalist benefits of FOSS are not swamped by the corporate agenda abetted by authoritarians, is that FOSS (and open standards intended to allow FOSS) has to be architected for hackability. People are used to thinking that a technical standard is bad when it disenfranchises normal geeks (in favour of an elite or minority) rather than good because it enfranchises non-geeks.
There are various reasons why you might want a CSS version of XML, for me it was because I was programming for Cross-media generation and I wanted a way to reuse definitions easily in one format with other formats, so I wanted an XML format that I could reuse. This made it easier to control that presentations of the data in XHTML, PDF, Ebook, or Microsoft Help or Word files all had the same styling where relevant, or to do calculations from a base style that altered specific to the media.

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