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Can RDF really save us from data format proliferation?

Bill de hra has a blog post entitled Format Debt: what you can't say where he writes The closest thing to a deployable web technology that might improve describing these kind of data mashups witho...

Scalability: I Don't Think That Word Means What You Think It Does

Via Mark Pilgrim I stumbled on an article by Scott Loganbill entitled Googles Open Source Protocol Buffers Offer Scalability, Speed which contains the following excerpt The best way to explore Pr...

In Defense of XML

Jeff Atwood recently published two anti-XML rants in his blog entitled XML: The Angle Bracket Tax and Revisiting the XML Angle Bracket Tax. The source of his beef with XML and his recommendations to d...

Microsoft's Astoria and Jasper data access projects

Andy Conrad, who I used to work with back on the XML team, has two blog posts about Project Astoria and Project Jasper from Microsoft's Data Programmability team. Both projects are listed as data acc...

Miguel de Icaza on OOXML vs. ODF

Miguel de Icaza of Gnumeric, GNOME and Ximian fame has weighed in with his thoughts on the FUD war that is ODF vs. OOXML. In his blog post entitled The EU Prosecutors are Wrong Miguel writes Open stan...

What is Rob Weir (and IBM's) Agenda with the OOXML Bashing?

In response to my recent post entitled ODF vs. OOXML on Wikipedia one of my readers pointed out Well, many of Weir's points are not about OOXML being a "second", and therefore unnecessary, standard...

ODF vs. OOXML on Wikipedia

This morning I stumbled upon an interestingly titled post by Rick Jellife which piqued my interest entitled An interesting offer: get paid to contribute to Wikipedia where he writes Im not a Microso...

Updated: XML Has Too Many Architecture Astronauts

Joel Spolsky has an seminal article entitled Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You where he wrote A recent example illustrates this. Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like "...

XML Has Too Many Architecture Astronauts

Joel Spolsky has an seminal article entitled Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You where he wrote A recent example illustrates this. Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like "...

JSON vs. XML: Browser Security Model

Over the holidays I had a chance to talk to some of my old compadres from the XML team at Microsoft and we got to talking about the JSON as an alternative to XML. I concluded that there are a small n...

JSON vs. XML: Browser Programming Models

Over the holidays I had a chance to talk to some of my old compadres from the XML team at Microsoft and we got to talking about the JSON as an alternative to XML. I concluded that there are a small n...

Versioning Does Not Make Validation Irrelevant

Mark Baker has a blog post entitled Validation considered harmful where he writes We believe that virtually all forms of validation, as commonly practiced, are harmful; an anathema to use at Web sca...

My Good Deed for the Day

Edd Dumbill has a blog post entitled Afraid of the POX? where he writes The other day I had was tinkering with that cute little poster child of Web 2.0, Flickr. Looking for a lightweight way to inco...

Miguel De Icaza on the Novell's OpenOffice "Fork"

If you are a reggular reader of Slashdot you probably stumbled on a link to the Groklaw article Novell "Forking" OpenOffice.org by Pamela Jones. In the article, she berates Novell for daring to pro...

Should You Choose RELAX Now?

Tim Bray has a blog post entitled Choose RELAX Now where he writes Elliotte Rusty Harolds RELAX Wins may be a milestone in the life of XML. Everybody who actually touches the technology has known the...

On Microsoft Not Joining the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Committee

Brian Jones has a blog post entitled Politics behind standardization where he writes We ultimately need to prioritize our standardization efforts, and as the Ecma Office Open XML spec is clearly furt...

Microsoft Announces ODF Support for Office

The Office team continues to impress me how savvy they are about the changing software landscape. In his blog post entitled Open XML Translator project announced (ODF support for Office) Brian Jones ...

Mike Champion on Why We Need XLinq

Mike Champion has a blog post entitled Why does the world need another XML API? where he writes One basic question keeps coming up, something like: "We have SAX, DOM, XmlReader/Writer APIs (and the ...

On the C# 3.0 Preview: Some Thoughts on LINQ

If you're a regular reader of Don Box's weblog then you probably know that Microsoft has made available another Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Language Integrated Query (LINQ) aka C# 3.0. ...

W3C Publishes XMLHttpRequest Object specification

I just noticed that last week the W3C published a working draft specification for The XMLHttpRequest Object. I found the end of the working draft somewhat interesting. Read through ...

WordPerfect to Support Microsoft Office Open XML Formats

Brian Jones has a blog post entitled Corel to support Microsoft Office Open XML Formats which begins Corel has stated that they will support the new XML formats in Wordperfect o...

Metadata Quality and Mapping Between Domain Languages

One part of the XML vision that has always resonated with me is that it encourages people to build custom XML formats specific to their needs but allows them to map between language...

Microformats vs. XML: Pros and Cons

Since writing my post Microformats vs. XML: Was the XML Vision Wrong?, I've come across some more food for thought in the appropriateness of using microformats over XML format...

Microformats vs. XML: Was the XML Vision Wrong?

Over a year ago, I wrote a blog post entitled SGML on the Web: A Failed Dream? where I asked whether the original vision of XML had failed. Below are excerpts from that post The...

Don Demsak on XSLT 2.0 and Microsoft

Don Demsak has a post entitled XSLT 2.0, Microsoft, and the future of System.Xml which has some insightful perspectives on the future of XML in the .NET Framework Oleg accidental...

XSLT 2.0 and Microsoft

I've been following a series of posts on Oleg Tkachenko's blog with some bemusement. In his post A business case for XSLT 2.0he writes If you are using XSLT and you think that X...

Tim Bray's Hypocrisy and Competing XML Formats

Tim Bray has a post entitled Thought Experiments where he writes To keep things short, lets call OpenDocument Format 1.0 "ODF" and the Office 12 XML File Formats "O12X"...

Adam Bosworth's "Learning From the Web"

Last week Andrew Conrad told me to check out a recent article by Adam Bosworth in the ACM Queue because he wondered what I thought about. I was rather embarassed to note that ...

The Myth of the Office XML Binary Key

A recent comment on the Groklaw blog entitled Which Binary Key? claims that one needs a "binary key" to consume XML produced by Microsoft Office 2003. Specifically the post claims No_Axe speaks as ...

On Crappy XML Formats

There have been a number of amusing discussions in the recent back and forth between Robert Scoble and several others on whether OPML is a crappy XML format. In posts such as OPML "crappy" Robertso...

Questioning RDF

I've been a long time skeptic when it comes to RDF and the Semantic Web. Every once in a while I wonder if perhaps what I have a problem with is the W3C's vision of the Semantic Web...

XLinq and Visual Basic 9

The announcements from about Microsoft's Linq project just keep getting better and better. In his post XML, Dynamic Languages, and VB, Mike Champion writes Thursday at...

Integrating XML into Programming Languages: Diving Into XLinq

You know you're a geek when it's not even 7AM but you've already spent half the morning reading a whitepaper about Microsoft's plans to integrate XML and relational query language functionality ...

Microsoft announces LINQ (and XLinq)

The former co-workers (the Microsoft XML team) have been hard at work with the C# language team to bring the XML query integration into the core languages for the .NET Framework. Fr...

Microformats vs. XML vs. RDF

In response to my post Using XML on the Web is Evil, Since When Tantek updated his post Avoiding Plain XML and Presentational Markup. Since I'm the kind of person who can't avoid ...

Using XML on the Web is Evil, Since When?

I've been reading some of the hype around microformatsin certain blogs with some amusement.I have been ignoring microformats but now I see that some of its proponents have started claiming that using...

Hacking MSN Virtual Earth

I stumbled on Bus Monster last week and even though I don't take the bus I thought it was a pretty cool application. There's a mapping application that I've been wanting for a few years and I instant...

Apple Embraces and Extends RSS with iTunes 4.9

Today I learned that Apple brings podcasts into iTunes which is excellent news. This will definitely push subscribing to music and videos via RSS feeds into the mainstream. I wonder how long it'll ta...

Joe Wilcox on Microsoft's Office Open XML formats

Joe Wilcox has a post that has me scratching my head today. In his post Even More on New Office File Formats, he writes Friday's eWeek story about Microsoft XML-based formats certainly raises some ...

.NET vs. J2EE Performance Benchmarks for XML and XML Web Services

About a year ago, the folks at Sun Microsystems came up with a bunch of benchmarks that showed that XML parsing in Java was much faster than on the .NET Framework. On the XML team a...

Microsoft Office and XML: Why not the OASIS OpenOffice.org XML format?

Since the recent announcement that the next version of Microsoft Office would move to open XML formats as the default file format in the next version, I've seen some questions raised about why the Op...

Next Version of Office Will Use XML as the Default File Format

About two and half years ago, I was hanging out with several members of the Office team as they gave the details about how Office 2003 would support XML file formats at XML 2002. No...

Jonathan Marsh On XInclude and XML Schema

It seems Jonathan Marsh has joined the blogosphere with his new blog Design By Committee. If you don't know Jonathan Marsh, he's been one of Microsoft's representatives at the W3C for several years a...

XInclude and W3C XML Schema Will Play Nice Together in .NET Framework v2.0

Stan Kitsis, who replaced me as the XML Schema program manager on the XML team, has a blog post about XInclude and schema validation where he writes A lot of people are excited about XInclude and w...

UPDATED: Things to note about foreach and System.Xml.XPath.XPathNodeIterator

Oleg Tkachenko has a post aboutone of the changes I was involved in while the program manager for XML programming models in the .NET Framework. In the post foreach and XPathNodeIter...

Microsoft licensed Mvp.Xml library

A little while ago I noticed a post by Oleg Tkachenko entitled Microsoft licensed Mvp.Xml library where he wrote On behalf of the Mvp.Xml project team our one and the only lawyer - XML MVP Daniel C...

Adam Bosworth's Web of Data: Is RSS the only API your Website Needs?

Daniel Steinberg has a an article entitled Bosworth's Web of Data where he discusses some of the ideas Adam Bosworth evangelized in his keynote at the MySQL Users Conference 2005. Daniel writes, Bo...

Fun with XMLHttpRequest and RSS: Browsing Photo Albums on MSN Spaces

I mentioned in a recent post that I was considering writing an article entitled Using Javascript, XMLHttpRequest and RSS to create an MSN Spaces photo album browser. It actually ...

Contract-First XML Web Service Design is No Panacea

Every once in a while I see articles like Aaron Skonnard's Contract-First Service Development which make me shake my head in sorrow. His intentions are good but quite often advising...

Ideas for my next Extreme XML column on MSDN

It looks like I didn't get an Extreme XML column out last month. Work's been hectic but I think I should be able to start on a column by the end of the week and get it done before the end of the mont...

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