I'm quite bullish about W3C's "Binary XML Infoset" project, after looking at Fast Infoset, an Open Source library at java.net. The thing I like is that it reminds me of XML's development: respect-based standards are a win all around.

Apparantly my book was published in China. Or was it?

Love of your homeland does not require hatred of foreign lands. The Beanshell interpreter plus XML makes Java much more LISPy

Why aren't the people who claim to need faster XML processing talking to chip-makers?

Some blog responses to Daniel Cazzulino's All about Schematron

Validate XHTML+CSS saves a site $$ millions. Plus a laywer questions whether open source licenses of IP can be renigged.

Document Complexity Metric. Web Proper Names. A new approach to Datatypes.

Related link: http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/xml/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnxml/html/sc… Dare Obasanjo has compiled a short introduction to Schematron (1.5) for the MicroSoft Developer Network. This is the first time (that I am aware of) that MS has had material promoting Schematron. Great! I think it springs from Daniel Cazzulino's work with Schematron.NET. Maybe people are finally not seeing Schematron as a threat to their favourite grammar,...

Related link: http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/sightings/S01.html Talking to Groovy's John Wilson last week, he mentioned that his mini-XML parser had been used to make a toaster that toasts the day's weather map onto your bread! I missed this originally: but it perhaps this is the new medium. Quick: someone should patent personalized fast food! Perhaps (bogglingly experimental Spanish restaurant) El Bulli will toast...

New implementations, Love-In let-down, Open GIS