Oct 13
XML geekdom
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One of my favorite blogs has to be Michel Kay’s Saxon diaries. If you’re not already familiar with Michael Kay, he’s one of the, if not the, foremost expert of XSL-T and related technologies. And he’s the sole creator behind Saxon, the best XSL-T engine around.

His posts usually deals with various improvements, mostly performance related, to Saxon. And they deal in very great detail. More than you will ever need, but still it tells you a lot about how to improve on a stable code base. The two most recent posts are excellent examples.

Mar 25
Schema association
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Does your XML editor do this?

Oxygen screenshot

If not, you should really have a look at Oxygen or some other editor that allows you to bind your RNG, XSD or DTD schemas to your XML documents using namespaces, root element names or file names. That way, we can all get rid of those useless xsi:schemaLocation for good and rather let the user of the document decide on what schema to use and where it’s located.

Jun 25

The XML Query WG has announced what they belive is the completed release of the test suite for XQuery. All in all, it contains a whopping 14500 test cases. That’s what the WG think is necessary to fully test the complete specification, all 239 pages of it. I think it will be a crucial tool for ensuring combability between different XQuery implementations and might make XQuery skip the long period of incompability that most other specifications has to endure. I just wish that the SVG WG would make the same prioritizes, instead of trying to release yet another bloated spec long before the previous is even close to being proven and successful.

And, if 14500 test cases are required for XQuery compability, how many will be needed for WS-*?

Apr 12
Relax NG editor
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I’m looking for a Relax NG editor, much like the XMLSpy visual editor for XSD schemas, that I can recommend for people that are not schema nerds. I know that Oxygen has a color coded editor with code completion but that’s not really what I’m looking for. Anyone got a recommendation?

Aug 22
Embedded markup considered harmful
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Norman Walsh on HTML in Pie/Echo/Atom and FOAF

Jan 26
XFML for dummies
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xml.com has an excellent introduction to XFML. Go read if you ever want to categorize your data.

Jan 26
Examplotron 0.5
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Eric van der Vlist announced a new version of Examplotron, the XML schema language based on example XML files. A pretty interesting experiment.

News in version 0.5 includes that the files are no longer converted to XSLT transformations but instead into Relax NG schemas.

Jan 24
New Trang
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James Clark has released a new version of Trang, his amazingly good converter between DTD, XML Schemas and Relax NG schemas. A must-have.

Jan 7
Yet another linking proposal
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Micah Dubinko has written up his ideas for how generic linking in XML could work. I like the simple, minimal design but would miss linkbases.

I’m sure this will kick-start the discussions on xml-dev for 2003.

Dec 13
Quote
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Mike Champion on the upcoming XML support in Office: “Yes! I was deeply impressed. Not to mention glad I don’t work for
an XML authoring tool vendor anymore :-) The 800lb gorilla has pointed to the XML
authoring space and said “me sit THERE!”.”

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