XML

Overheard: Dave Winer is the Microsoft of XML?

My point here is that OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) takes a very, very simply nested list definition and then adds random hacks that Dave Winer wanted to use in his applications without thinking of a generic way to define them so that other developers can do something with the format. In other words, Dave Winer is the Microsoft of XML. Elliot C. Back, The OPML Embroglio: What is OPML?

This is an old blog post and I’m late to the party, but it still made me laugh out loud.

Overheard: XML is firmly grounded in Web 1.0 publishing

The crystal ball might be a little hazy, but the outline of XML’s future is becoming clear. The exact time line is a tad uncertain, but where XML is going isn’t. XML’s future lies with the Web, and more specifically with Web publishing…But XML is still firmly grounded in Web 1.0 publishing, and that’s still very important. Elliotte Rusty Harold The future of XML

In 2008 we will still see a lot of shouting and hollering over which XML vocabulary to use for office documents, and not a few polemics on both sides. I suspect Microsoft will lose its efforts to have OOXML declared an ISO standard in February, but I’m not certain of that. Either way, the writing on the wall is clear. Microsoft Office will continue to lose market share to OpenOffice, iWork, and other competitors.

If the authoring tool will be a traditional office program such as Word or OpenOffice Writer, what will be on the server to hold this? And how will you move the content from the client to the server? This is where two of the most significant 1.0 releases from 2007 come into play: the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) and XQuery.

Overheard: W3C XML Schemas lack elegance

W3C XML Schemas (XSD) suck. They are hard to read, hard to write, hard to understand, have interoperability problems, and are unable to describe lots of things you want to do all the time in XML. Tim Bray, as quoted in Should you be using RELAX-NG?

Tim was co-editor of the XML 1.0 specification and created the first parser software for XML documents. Currently, he is the Director of Web Technologies for Sun Microsystems.

Overheard: Fast Infoset explained

To effectively improve web service performance, you need to reduce the overhead associated with parsing, serializing, and transmitting XML-based data. Fast Infoset is an open, standards-based solution for doing just that. Young Yang, Boost Web Service Performance in JAX-WS with Fast Infoset

Overheard: Web 2.0 programming

“A very important aspect of XProc is that it will be a standard and have multiple (hopefully) interoperable implementations. This should pave the way for an explosion of applications of XML pipelines.” Erik Bruchez, XML pipelines: XPL and XProc