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More on MicroXML 18 Dec 2010 | 04:03 pm
There's been lots of useful feedback to my previous post, both in the comments and on xml-dev, so I thought I would summarize my current thinking. It's important to be clear about the objectives. Fir...
MicroXML 13 Dec 2010 | 09:57 pm
There's been a lot of discussion on the xml-dev mailing list recently about the future of XML. I see a number of different possible directions. I'll give each of these possible directions a simple n...
XML vs the Web 24 Nov 2010 | 09:05 pm
Twitter and Foursquare recently removed XML support from their Web APIs, and now support only JSON. This prompted Norman Walsh to write an interesting post, in which he summarised his reaction as "Me...
A tour of the open standards used by Google Buzz 12 Feb 2010 | 05:56 pm
The thing I find most attractive about Google Buzz is its stated commitment to open standards: We believe that the social web works best when it works like the rest of the web — many sites linked tog...
Mac Day 1 6 Feb 2010 | 10:44 pm
I decided to dip my toe in the Mac world and buy a Mac mini. If I decide to make the switch, I will probably end up getting a fully tricked out MacBook Pro, but I'm not ready for that yet and I want t...
XML Namespaces 2 Jan 2010 | 07:33 pm
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to blog more. I don’t expect I’ll have much more success with this than I usually do with my New Year’s resolutions, but at least I can make a start. I have been...
Getting involved with M 23 Mar 2009 | 05:25 pm
I spent last week in Redmond talking to Microsoft about M and Oslo. The question at the back of my mind before I went was "Does M really have the potential in the long term to be an interesting and u...
RELAX NG and xml:id 17 Jan 2009 | 07:21 pm
One part of the vision underlying RELAX NG is that validation should not be monolithic: it is not necessary or desirable to have one schema language that can handle every possible kind of validation y...
My new laptop 12 Jan 2009 | 06:20 pm
I just bought a new laptop. Previously I was using a Sony VAIO TZ, specifically a TZ38GN: 1.15kg 11.1" screen, 1366x768 resolution, LED backlit U7700 (1.33GHz) CPU 2Gb RAM 48Gb solid state disk ...
Saxon performance 14 Dec 2008 | 02:30 pm
Michael Kay has posted a link to a new paper of his on Saxon performance. Interesting not just for XQuery/XSLT performance but also for XML performance in general.
