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I couldn't attend the latest SC34 meeting physically in Oslo (I corresponded by email on some WG1 issues relating to Schematron and maintenance), but the public documents from the meeting have now been released at the SC34 website, in particular...»

XML.COM Newsletter There's a problem with living life on the bleeding edge. For all of the exhilaration of being one of the first to play with a new technology (or in some cases even to create that new technology), it's...»

One feature of modern US capitalism is that successful companies are ones which can obtain a market domination in one sector, then extract value-adds from it, attempting to get a locked-in (i.e. non-market) revenue base in other sectors. Microsoft Windows...»

The App Engine announcement has sparked quite a flurry of reactions. The biggest arguments seem to revolve around ownership versus convenience. This seems very important, but at the back of mind I wonder why XML documents are not more involved...»

As per the title, I'm wondering how many of you have taken the time to read through the letter Amazon.com sent to publishers on March 31st of this year? If you have not, it's probably worth your time to read...»

Test Driven Development is a relatively popular methodology nowadays and I think XML tools can play crucial aspect in better testing. Testing frameworks are more than capable of using and testing XML based applications, but just in case you have...»

Open Geospatial Consortium has put out Google's KML as one of their industrial standards. Congratulations to all concerned! KML is an XML language focused on geographic visualization, including annotation of maps and images. Geographic visualization includes not only the presentation...»

Update: Not sure if it was this post, or someone else who may have emailed and/or someone at the W3C who took notice of the multiple 404's being logged, but regardless of the reason, it seems this has now been...»

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I recently received the following comment to my previous Amazon POD post from "Mary", I'm sorry, but anyone naive enough to think Amazon is not going for the monopoly on POD publishing needs to really read that letter. And, from...»