Archives for Category: XML

XHTML Modularization: a markup language designer's toolkit

The current maintenance update to XHTML Modularization is in response to the inevitable bug reports and clarifications that come from actual use. Since there have recently been some misconceptions expressed about the purpose of the spec, I'd thought I'd take...

 

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Filed by Steven Pemberton on June 3, 2010 8:45 AM in HTML, Publications, Technology 101, XML
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Entity declarations without DTDs: yet another approach?

With a Future of XML workshop in the offing, maybe it's time to revisit one of the oldest XML feature requests: binding general entities without using the internal/external subset. There have been numerous more-or-less serious proposals to address this...

 

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Filed by Henry S. Thompson on March 4, 2010 11:05 AM in XML
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HMAC truncation in XML Signature: When Alice didn't look.

Today, we've published a proposed correction against XML Signature. Normally, errata are published without much ado, and largely cover minor points of specifications. This one's a bit different: You haven't seen any public discussion of this particular erratum before,...

 

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Filed by Thomas Roessler on July 14, 2009 6:00 PM in Security, Technology, XML
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For Erik Naggum, in appreciation

Reading Michael Sperberg-McQueen's blog over the weekend, I came across news that Erik Naggum, an active member of the SGML community, going back many years, has died. Michael writes: Erik Naggum, dead? Is it possible? One person fewer who remembers...

 

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Filed by Michael(tm) Smith on June 22, 2009 2:21 AM in XML
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A rough view of the future

A (rough) vision of future Web technologies working together.

 

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Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on March 24, 2009 6:52 PM in HTML, SVG, Technology, Video, XML
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XML and language resources

Language resources are needed by many people and tools: language teachers use computers to store example sentences, present grammars patterns, help learners to find mistakes etc. machine translation tools use word classes, grammar and other information, or large sets...

 

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Filed by Felix Sasaki on December 5, 2008 7:53 AM in Technology, XML
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SVG, comics and E-books

SVG is a format that could be widely used on e-books for comics.

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on September 1, 2008 5:30 AM in Opinions & Editorial, SVG, XML
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The details of data in documents: GRDDL, profiles, and HTML5

GRDDL, a mechanism for putting RDF data in XML/XHTML documents, is specified mostly at the XPath data model level. Some GRDDL software goes beyond XML and supports HTML as she are spoke, aka tag soup. HTML 5 is intended to...

 

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Filed by Dan Connolly on August 22, 2008 7:45 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Web Architecture, XML
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Unescape HTML Entities in Python

I'm not a real programmer, but here a piece of python code to unescape html entities in an XHTML file and convert them to utf-8.

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on April 8, 2008 2:21 AM in Bugs Life, Tools, XML
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Many ways to access W3C mailing-lists

W3C may be about Web technologies, but a lot of its discussions happen... by e-mail. With more than 600,000 public mails archived to date, how can we manage the information overload? And how can that influence our online behaviour?

 

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Filed by olivier Théreaux on March 18, 2008 4:10 PM in W3C Life, Web Spotting, XML
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W3C working across multiple languages

W3C is working only in English? Not only ... W3C is also gathering knowledge from local communities, allowing experts to contribute in their native language. A good example for this effort is the Japanese Layout Taskforce, a joint task force...

 

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Filed by Felix Sasaki on February 26, 2008 4:51 AM in XML
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l10n and i18n your XML!

Are you using XHTML, DocBook, DITA, the TEI, or another XML vocabulary? Or are you creating your own vocabulary from scratch, but for world-wide use? Then you should read Best Practices for XML Internationalization, a new Working Group Note...

 

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Filed by Felix Sasaki on February 14, 2008 12:52 AM in XML
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XML 10 has been launched

W3C has launched a very mini site for XML tenth anniversary. Already ten years of XML.

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on February 12, 2008 9:56 PM in W3C Life, XML
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HTML 5, one vocabulary, two serializations

It seems not very clear for many people. So let's set the record straight. HTML 5 can be written in html and XML.

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on January 15, 2008 9:03 PM in HTML, Technology 101, Tutorials, XML
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Michael and a tiny XML Schema test suite

Michael has created a blog. He's telling us about the fun of testing and shares this tiny XML Schema test suite.

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on January 3, 2008 8:58 PM in W3C・QA News, XML
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XML On The Web - A Choice

The browsers offer one rendered view of information on the Web among many possibilities. JSON, RDF, Atom, plain text, xhtml, html are parts of the choices to represent an information resource.

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on December 25, 2007 12:00 AM in HTML, XML
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XML Dev Day Tokyo 2007

Today (21 December 2007) I am attending the Tokyo 10th XML Developers day. This is an annual event, held in Japanese, with latest news from the Japanese XML developers community. The event is organized by Murakta-san. The presentations are of a great variety, providing both technical and rather "political" aspects of XML trends. Below is a summary of the talks, focusing on the technical aspects.

 

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Filed by Felix Sasaki on December 24, 2007 6:08 PM in Technology, XML
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