W3C Updates XML: XML Posted by: comforteagle From the Mo Betta XML dept.: The World Wide Web Consortium released new editions of four core XML specifications on Aug. 16. The Cambridge, Mass.-based standards body announced the release of the fourth edition of XML (Extensible Markup Language) 1.0 and second editions of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1, Namespaces in XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML 1.1. Published Aug 18, 2006 - 07:32 AM Read more... Comment

Why I ditched XMLRPC in favor of Pyro: XML Posted by: comforteagle I ran into a situation recently where I needed to pass "None" as a value to some code which runs under the SimpleXMLRPCServer in the Python standard library. I immediately got a Fault something like this: Published Oct 14, 2005 - 10:00 AM Read more... Comment

OpenDocument could 'turn everything inside out': XML Posted by: comforteagle Tim Bray, the director of Web technologies at Sun, said at the OpenOffice.org conference in Slovenia late last week that the file format developed by standards body OASIS has the potential to transform the world as much as the World Wide Web did. Published Oct 03, 2005 - 11:48 AM Read more... Comment

XML in Firefox 1.5, Part 1: Overview of XML features: XML Posted by: comforteagle The open source Firefox Web browser continues to grow in popularity. Users like the security and convenience features it offers. Developers like the Firefox attention to standards compliance, inherited from its Mozilla roots. The most recent version, Firefox 1.5, comes with many features for XML developers, including XML parsing, XHTML, CSS, XSLT, SVG, XML Events in JavaScript™, and XForms. Additional third-party extensions provide even more XML support. In this article, Uche Ogbuji provides an overview of XML features in Firefox 1.5. Published Sep 22, 2005 - 12:00 PM Read more... Comment

OASIS Approves OpenOffice 2.0 File Format: XML Posted by: chaney OASIS, the international e-business standards consortium, announced on Monday that it has approved the Open Document Format for Office Applications Version 1.0 as a standard. Published May 24, 2005 - 02:00 PM Read more... Comment

Camino 0.8.4: XML Posted by: comforteagle The Mozilla Project has posted Camino 0.8.4, a Mac OS X web browser based on the Gecko 1.7 rendering engine and the Quartz GUI toolkit. It supports pretty much all the technologies that Mozilla does: HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, etc. 0.8.4 is now compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and fixes several critical security bugs. All users should upgrade. Mac OS X 10.1.5 or later is required. Published May 02, 2005 - 03:58 PM Read more... Comment

Open Office XML Format Will Probably Become an ISO Standard: XML Posted by: comforteagle "Because of the way ongoing works I need fairly short headlines, which is a pity, because for this piece I wanted to use The European Commission Makes Extremely Smart Moves Concerning Open XML-Based Office Document Formats and Browbeats Vendors Deftly; As a Result the Open Office XML Format Will Probably Become an ISO Standard. This story started for me back in March when an OpenOffice team and a Microsoft team were invited to present to the European Commission on the relative merits of their XML-based office document formats. You can read about the arguments here and what the EC’s response was here and if you care about these things and haven’t already, you probably should." Published Sep 27, 2004 - 07:19 AM Read more... Comment

Using open source tools to build interoperable Web services: XML Posted by: comforteagle "XML and Web services have been touted for years as the new lingua franca for application development, destined to transform the way companies conduct business and communicate. Lingua franca, or "bastardized French," was a pidgin or trade language used a couple of hundred years ago by various language communities around the Mediterranean to communicate with others whose language they didn't speak. XML, by itself, can't be a lingua franca, since it really isn't even a language; it's more an alphabet or limited set of characters for sending information between application systems. And just because applications speak XML doesn't mean that they can talk to each other, anymore than English and French speakers will understand each other despite using languages based on the same alphabet. Published Sep 10, 2004 - 11:00 AM Read more... 5 Comments

Editorial: Applying Distributed XML toward The Open Source Paradigm Shift to Infoware: XML Posted by: comforteagle by Steve Mallett Tim O'Reilly has written and spoken often on what he coins “The Open Source Paradigm Shift”. I've heard Tim give this speech a few times, and read it a few to boot. The one major point that sticks with me is that the software we “use” is no longer just on your desktop/laptop, but the software of the internet that we use everyday a la Google, eBay, Salesforce.com & Amazon to use his prime examples. Published Sep 02, 2004 - 08:42 AM Read more... Comment

XBRL follow-up: XML Posted by: comforteagle Jon Udell. Part II on XBRL. "Following last week's critique of XBRL, I had an interesting email exchange with David Vun Kannon, a manager in KPMG's financial services practice and one of the editors of the XBRL spec. The dialogue went far beyond what InfoWorld's letters column could ever accommodate, so with David's permission, I'm reproducing it here." Published May 10, 2004 - 12:10 PM Read more... Comment