XML.comXML.com Articles and WeblogsFreedom in Web Applications- June 30, 2008 It is interesting to see the progression of free software along side the proliferation of the web. When I first started programming, I got involved with a web CMS I used in my contract work. I would write a new...http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/06/freedom_in_web_applications.html?CMP=OTC-TY3388... RDF Parsing in XSLT- June 30, 2008 During the recent discussion of the OAI-ORE drafts (which use RDF), the claim was made that RDF is serialized in RDFXML and thus could be considered an XML representation of the underlying data model. My response to that was that...http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/06/rdf_parsing_in_xslt.html?CMP=OTC-TY3388567169&a... Associating Resources with Namespaces- June 27, 2008 The W3C just published a new TAG Finding called Associating Resources with Namespaces. Here's the abstract: This Finding addresses the question of how ancillary information (schemas, stylesheets, documentation, etc.) can be associated with a namespace. I don't quite understand why...http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/06/associating_resources_with_nam.html?CMP=OTC-TY3... Permanent URLs for things in the real world- June 26, 2008 At the Semantic Technologies conference in San Jose I attended an interesting presentation entitled &8220;persistent identifiers for the real web&8221;. XML often uses URLs for identifying schema namespaces, and I suppose could be credited for influencing RDF&8217;s practice of using...http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/06/post_7.html?CMP=OTC-TY3388567169&ATT=Perman... Castoff hints Rethinking interoperability and fidelity- June 25, 2008 First some jargon (from the Glossary of Typesetting Terms or Harrod's Librarians' Glossary full props to Google.) Castoff: The calculation the number of typeset pages a manuscript will make, based on a character count. Proof: An impression made from type...http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/06/castoff_hints_rethinking_inter.html?CMP=OTC-TY3... |