What is XML?
I wanted somewhere I could post without sounding too authoritative; my Advogato account isn’t really focussed on XML and my personal page isn’t bloggish. What is XML? I’ve recently held a number of...
View ArticleSisters of Transparency
Oh dear, this blogging thing doesn’t happen all by itself, you have to remember it. I had originally wanted somewhere I could write about some of the philosophy and design issues of XML, but then I got...
View ArticleAttributes and Elements
I’m sometimes asked when you should use attributes and when you should use elements when designing a new XML vocabulary. There are in fact no hard and fast answers for all situations, but there are...
View ArticleXML Everywhere?
I was recently asked, how widespread is the use of XML? I had to stop and think. It’s almost as if someone asked me how widely used is air, or perhaps more fairly how many socks there are in the world....
View ArticleThe Super Information Archipelago
I spent some time recently thinking about RDF and the Semantic Web, and about ontologies, and about XML and topic maps and XML schema languages. The Semantic Web people are doing something (or trying...
View ArticleMoving
I realised that I wasn’t motivated enough to keep writing here, partly because not enough people are watching… which in turn is partly because the writing is all too dry and professional. So I started...
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