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.
The police need to be more active.
