Simple federated queries with RDF
A few more triples to identify some relationships, and you're all set.
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bobdc.blogBob DuCharme's weblog, mostly on technology for representing and linking information. |
April 29, 2012
January 25, 2012
A brief, opinionated history of XML
From someone who had a front row seat.
July 30, 2009
Advanced XSLT (and XQuery, and XSL-FO)
A good place to learn.
December 16, 2008
Picking XML schemas and tools?
Then first think about your content and users.
December 5, 2008
Looking forward to XML 2008
And seeing some friends and learning about new developments.
November 4, 2008
Converting SGML DTDs to XML
Not quite to XML DTDs, but close enough to be useful.
July 7, 2008
XForms + REST + XQuery (+ Jenni Tennison)
New, standards-based ways to build cool applications.
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July 1, 2008
The (SGML) geekiest shirt ever
"We're all special characters".
April 25, 2008
In single-source publishing, what do you call the source?
March 25, 2008
Customizing nxml to find your schemas automatically
By namespace or document element.
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January 27, 2008
Validating XML documents with PUBLIC identifiers and catalogs
And indenting them, and changing their encoding...
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December 5, 2007
XHTML 2 for authoring?
Suddenly it all made sense.
November 20, 2007
Customized cookbooks
Pay for professional recipes, or do it the XML geek way.
November 4, 2007
A nice free XML editor
(Of course, I'll continue to use Emacs in nxml mode.)
September 14, 2007
Using Word for command line conversion of DOC files to XML
Or to RTF, or to whatever.
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July 30, 2007
Another great XML Summer School in Oxford
Despite some flooding here and there.
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July 1, 2007
XML Summer School in Oxford
Teaching and learning XML with old and new friends.
June 13, 2007
developerWorks article on XHTML 2
Why I like XHTML 2.
June 10, 2007
More on Word's mediocre XML
It's not just the index tag markup, but most of the "Insert Field" parts.
May 31, 2007
Word 2003's awful XML for index elements
My "XML version of their RTF" joke has become too real to be funny anymore.
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April 13, 2007
Using XHTML 2 schemas
The RELAX NG kind, and maybe the XSD kind.
April 6, 2007
James Clark's weblog
Read it, and pay close attention.
March 28, 2007
New Eric van der Vlist book on Schematron out
As part of O'Reilly's "Short Cuts" series.
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March 27, 2007
Clever video about Web 2.0 and XML
Text in motion.
December 10, 2006
Home from XML 2006
New things for the future, interesting things from the past.
December 4, 2006
Settled in at XML 2006
The biggest annual XML event of them all.
November 26, 2006
Word 2003 XML
Better than I expected, but good enough for a production system?
July 31, 2006
XML summer school in Oxford
The Hogwarts of XML.
June 27, 2006
TagSoup 1.0 released
A milestone for a very useful open source XML utility.
May 26, 2006
XML: too flexible?
Some biologists really like relational databases.
April 3, 2006
Document Engineering
An excellent book by Bob Glushko and Tim McGrath.
March 25, 2006
XML, summer, and Oxford
Now in its sixth year!
December 12, 2005
Scripting the addition of XML files to the eXist XQuery database
This wasn't documented very well, so once I got it to work I thought I'd post it.
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