Bob DuCharme: semweb, xml etc.

My involvement with the Semantic Web and XML:

My most recent book is XSLT Quickly from Manning Publications, a guide to learning the most important parts of XSLT and putting them to use with minimal time and effort.
IBM developerWorks published my article Simple server-side 2G phone apps in May of 2010.
I wrote the epub plugin for the DITA Open Toolkit to let it output epub electronic books from the same DITA XML source it uses to output other formats.
DevX.com published my article Using RDFa with DITA and DocBook in August of 2009.
IBM developerWorks published my article Build Wikipedia query forms with semantic technology in July of 2009.
DevX published my article Building an Application with the Twitter API in January of 2009.
DevX published my article Getting Started with the Twitter API in December of 2008.
I wrote the foreword to Elliotte Rusty Harold's 2008 book Refactoring HTML.
XML 2008 presentation: Automating Content Analysis with Trang and Simple XSLT Scripts.
DevX published my article Relational Database Integration with RDF/OWL published in July of 2008.
I co-chaired the first ever Linked Data Planet conference in New York City in June of 2008, which featured Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Kingsley Idehen as keynote speakers.
In May of 2008 I gave a talk on semantic web technologies, RDF, and OWL at the New Horizons in Teaching and Research conference showcasing technology in teaching, research, and scholarship at the University of Virginia.
In January of 2008 IBM developerWorks published my article article Easy command line processing with the DITA Open Toolkit and in February they published my tutorial DITA topic specialization: Analyze your content and build a specialized DTD.
XML 2007 presentation: "XHTML 2 for Publishers: New opportunities for storing interoperable content and metadata."
I served on the program committee for the 2007 Workshop on Semantic Web technology for Law.
In June of 2007 IBM developerWorks published my article Put XHTML 2 to work now.
XML 2006 paper: Relational database integration with RDF/OWL.
Papers that accompanied my presentations at XML 2005 in Atlanta: Automated mass production of XSLT stylesheets and Your schema and the industry-standard schema.
I work at TopQuadrant, a leading software company in the Semantic Web world.
In the April 2005 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal, I wrote an article titled RDF: Store Metadata About Anything, Anywhere.
I made several contribution's to O'Reilly's XML Hacks book.
From June of 2000 to September of 2005, I wrote the "Transforming XML" column about XSLT techniques for XML.com. You'll find links to all the articles at this list of "Transforming XML" columns.
Other XML.com work:
- Introducing RDFa Part 2, April 4, 2007
- Introducing RDFa Part 1, February 14, 2007
- Scaling Up with XQuery, Part 2, June 21, 2006
- Scaling Up with XQuery, Part 1, June 14, 2006
- Hacking the XML in Your TiVo, February 18, 2006
- Moving to OpenOffice: Batch Converting Legacy Documents, January 11, 2006
- Hacking eBay: Turning Email Alerts into Atom, November 2005
- Getting Started with XQuery, Part 1 and Part 2, March 2005
- Telnet and REST Web Services? December, 2004
- Standards Lowdown: XMP September, 2004
- Googling for XML February, 2004
- Getting Started with XForms December, 2003
- Building Metadata Applications with RDF February, 2003
- Making Your XML RDF-Friendly (with John Cowan) October, 2002
- Filling in the DTD Gaps (with Schematron) May, 2002
- XLink: Who Cares? April, 2002
- Links That Are More Valuable Than the Information They Link? July, 1998
From April 2003 to November 2005 I did an O'Reilly Network weblog focusing on linking issues titled Thinking About Linking.
I maintain the rdfdata.org web site, which lists pointers to larger collections and directories of RDF data on the web.

I wrote XML: The Annotated Specification, published by Prentice Hall PTR. You can find out more information and download the complete second chapter from the book's web page.
Paper from XML 2004 conference in Washington D.C.: Documents vs. Data, Schemas vs. Schemas
I gave a talk entitled "Converting DTDs (and DTD developers) to RELAX NG Schemas" at XML 2003 in Philadelphia. The paper is available here.
at XML 2002 in Baltimore I gave a talk titled "Maintaining Schemas for Pipelined Stages." The paper is available here.
The XML FAQ quotes me a few times.
From December 1997 to January 2000 I wrote a column on XML for the SGML newsletter <TAG>. (other articles)
A semi-scientific study of what attributes of the HTML a attribute real people actually use.
My FOAF file. (More on FOAF.)
IBM developerWorks published my article A Simple SOAP Client (originally entitled "A Simple SOAP Client for XML Geeks") in their May 2001 issue.
I wrote Writing a data type-checking XML parser with Xerces for a December 1999 IBM developerWorks. 8/28/01 update: this zip file has a version of the examples updated to work with Xerces Java 1.4.3, which conforms to the Recommendation version of the W3C Schema spec. Xerces 2.0 does not support W3C Schemas yet. See the Xerces Java Schema page for more on Xerces Schema conformance.
XML Magazine published my article What XLink Can Do for Your Applications in their Spring 2000 issue.

I wrote SGML CD, a tutorial and users' guide to free SGML software that includes a CD of the software covered. The book was published by Prentice Hall PTR; the chapter on Jade and DSSSL was serialized in the May - July 1997 issues of <TAG>: the SGML Newsletter, and you can download an Acrobat version of the complete Emacs/PSGML chapter from the book's web page.
I was the XML Correspondent for <TAG>, writing their "XML Beat" column from December 1997 to the end of 1999. The full text of articles are available online.
At XML '99 I gave a talk titled "XLink and Publishing Opportunities."
At SGML/XML '97, I gave a talk titled "Making Architectural Forms Work for You: Architectural Forms without HyTime" (sample code).
As a "consulting author," I wrote material on SDKs and free software in Prentice Hall's "SGML Buyer's Guide."

I wrote the "Object-Oriented Development of SGML Applications" chapter in Que publishing's "Special Edition: Using SGML." (It's no longer available online.)
At the SGML '95 conference in Boston, I presented a talk based on the paper entitled "Object-Oriented Development of SGML Applications" that I did as part of my masters degree program at NYU. The conference paper accompanying the presentation was cited in the SGML Technologies Group paper "Object Orientation and SGML: LINK Revealed" (paper no longer available on line; see bibliographic entry under "[CR: 19961226]") and several papers at subsequent conferences.
I used to maintain a web page of databases claiming to support SGML. It's very out of date at this point; I recommend Ronald Bourret's more recent XML and Databases.
This is not an XML document.

Good Introductions to XML

The SGML/XML Web Page is the ultimate reference on all that's available in the world of XML and SGML. (Note that it's searchable.)

Good Introductions to SGML

Start with the SGML FAQ, which is very short. The Text Encoding Initiative's Gentle Introduction to SGML (a 77K text file--also available in Russian!) is also very good.

Not the SGML FAQ

"The elements be kind to thee, and make thy spirits all of comfort!"
Anthony and Cleopatra, III ii