XRX: Simple, Elegant, Disruptive XRX is a new web development architecture that is a milestone in elegant simplicity. XRX stands for: XForms on the client REST interfaces and XQuery on the server Because XRX uses a single model for data (XML) it avoids the… read more Dan McCreary

XRIs Bad, URIs Good The W3C's high priesthood have recently advised against the use of XRIs. What are XRIs, and is the W3C right? Edd Dumbill

Success has a thousand fathers... JFK's line after the Bay of Pigs that Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan has a less adversarial and more useful popular version Success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan, and that is what… read more Rick Jelliffe

[Piers Hollot:QOTD] Got XPath? If You Don't Need XML, Then Don't Use It! - O'Reilly XML Blog I think now would be a really good time for anyone who doesn't "get" XPath to start getting it. M. David Peterson

The Paleo-Web: Paul Otlet and the Mundaneum We are, all of us, guilty of a common conceit - the idea that the web is a unique product of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century and those people who worked hard to create the Internet and… read more Kurt Cagle

If You Don't Need XML, Then Don't Use It! As an editor, it's all to easy to spend a lot of time reading (and responding to) blogs and articles on the web, and as the editor for xml.com, I find my time is disproportionately allocated to trying to… read more Kurt Cagle

Dita, DocBook and the Art of the Document While a remarkable amount of both ink and electronic bandwidth have been expended upon the use of XML in the data realm, there are times where it is necessary to step back for a bit and look at what… read more Kurt Cagle

The Loss of a Friend i had the honor of meeting Guido Sohne when I attended the Microsoft Technology Summit this last March. I feel both honored and privileged to suggest that we quickly became friends. Guido was a good friend. Guido was a good… read more M. David Peterson

*OA Overload I guess I am suffering from *OA overload. Trying to understand landscapes which are still developing and where religious and partisan statements happen frequently can be hard. Or maybe it's impossible. I am seeing too many *OAs these days. This… read more Erik Wilde

Balisage 2008 Announces Program Balisage is probably not a term on everyone's tongue. Its original usage comes from the Navy - for a ship to travel "balisage" means that they are using special dimmed lights for navigation while in enemy territory, a term also… read more Kurt Cagle

A loose end: Votes versus GDP I had thought that we all would be buckling down to productive work by now, but I see that there still is some attention being paid to the idea that there is a correlation between OOXML Yes votes and the… read more Rick Jelliffe

XML 1.0 (draft fifth edition) builds a foundation then doesn't use it The comments period for the XML 1.0 fifth edition revision finished last Friday 16th May. I didn't make a submission, in part because I felt I have had a good run in the past and my concerns are pretty well… read more Rick Jelliffe

XForms Builder If you are interested in seeing how XForms can be used as a development environment, I would suggest you check out the new Orbeon XForms Builder: http://www.orbeon.com/forms/builder This is a great example of "Eating your own dogfood" where a development… read more Dan McCreary

[Micah Dubinko:Mark Logic] Apparently Mark Logic Really *IS* That Good As I pointed out in my post regarding Norm Walsh leaving Sun to join Mark Logic, And lastly, if the back channel rumor mills are correct, my guess is that this isn’t the last big-name XML luminary we’ll see moving… read more M. David Peterson

X(HT)ML Fragment Identifiers The recently published HTML 5 draft does not change anything regarding HTML fragment identifiers. They are still limited to IDs only (with <a name=""> as alternative for backwards-compatibility). This means that any reference into an HTML page depends on how… read more Erik Wilde