New memes and local industry gossip on XML and CMS

Peter Sefton had a great analogy on XML conversions, at this week's Open Publish conference in Sydney

Is this the sexiest line-up of speakers ever?

Mark Pilgrim makes the perplexing claim that XML has failed because its developers "missed it" on the encoding issue. As one of them, I disagree.

Where HTML went wrong at W3C, and WHAT to do about it

Blocking DOM, individual node matching, and XPath-based dispatching

And what are they doing? plus gays, blackmail, Arabic, IRIs

Sun's new JDIC looks like a good step forward

Committee Draft of ISO Schematron available. Yippee. Plus new Topologi products to support "Markup in the large". Via pleasure-loving venus and eel pie.

Adding basic XML 1.1 support was surprisingly straightforward, but premature. However the 'XML stack' should not mandate XML 1.1.