Doug Mahugh:
One of the more interesting aspects of my job is meeting people who are developing software that interoperates with Office through the various formats that we support. It’s exciting to hear their plans, work with them on the details of how our products can collaborate or share data, and then see the final solutions, whethe (Read More)
Planet XML:
I'm pleased to announce that the last call draft of XML EntityDefinitions for Characters has been published:http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xml-entity-names-20091117/Comments are welcome on www-math@w3.org, please put thetext[last-call...in the subject line, preferably like this:[Entities-last-call] - summary of comment (Read More)
Planet XML:
The Math Working Group haspublished a Last Call Working Draft of XMLEntity definitions for Characters. It is difficult to writescience fluently if scientific characters are not available foruse. It is difficult to read science if corresponding glyphs arenot available for presentation. In the majority of cases it ispreferabl (Read More)
Doug Mahugh:
Last week I participated in the DII workshop that took place in Brussels. Attendees included a variety of document-format experts from the ODF and Open XML worlds, including members of SC34 working groups, the OASIS ODF and OIC TCs, ODF and Open XML implementers, public-sector experts in interoperability and archiving, a (Read More)
Planet XML:
The next time I see someone saying XML is inevitably hard toprogram to, I'll have a link to some code to show them:public static void main(String[] args) { Abdera abdera = new Abdera(); abdera.getFactory().registerExtension(newActivityExtensionFactory()); abdera.getFactory().registerExtension(newAtomMediaExtensionFactory (Read More)
Planet XML:
I have been thinking a little bit about whether Schematron's
pattern approach could be applied to complex event processing where
the input is a stream of discrete XML documents, for example each
one being a reading from a set of...
. (Read More)
Planet XML:
I have written about XBRL on thisblog a lot, and you probably already know that we’ve addedsupportfor XBRL across several of our products already in version2009, when we introduced the XBRL TaxonomyEditor and XBRL validation inXMLSpy, addedXBRLdata mapping and instance document creation to MapForce, and XBRLrendering, repor (Read More)
Planet XML:
The OpenOffice Project has released OpenOffice 3.1.1, an open
source office suite for Linux, Solaris, and Windows that saves all
its files as zipped XML and uses XForms. This release fixes
assorted bugs, including several security issues. All users should
upgrade.
. (Read More)
Planet XML:
Bare Bones Software has released version 9.3 of BBEdit, mypreferred text editor on the Mac, my favorite XML editor on anyplatforms, what I'm using to type these very words. This releasefixes bugs and adds a new bbfind command line tool. On thedownside, it makes an annoying and incorrect though not cripplingchange in handlin (Read More)
Planet XML:
Listening to bloggers over the last couple of years and also intalking to several developers in the industry it appeared to methat the JSON vs. XML debate seemed toprimarily be a “religious” conflict – much like the “PC vs. Mac” or“Java vs. .NET” are to a large extent. I call it a religiousconflict simply because there are (Read More)
Planet XML:
So I guess when we look at a system's architecture, the firstthing we can do is ask 'Is this XML here being used strategicallyor tactically?' A strategic use might be, for example, to allowlong-term archiving; a tactical use might be XML in AJAX (whereusing JSON would be another tactic.) If the answer is tactical,then we ca (Read More)
Planet XML:
The W3C XML Security Working Group has posted the first publicworking draft of XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 2.0."This version of the XML Signature specification introduces a new,simpler transform model. While this model is less generic than theone in the 1.x versions of this specification, we anticipate gains (Read More)
Altova Developer Connection News:
When we announced that Altova Software Version 2010 included over 70 of the features most requested by our customers, we weren't talking about little tweaks and enhancements, but major new functionality! To show you we mean business, I'll outline some of the most requested features added to XMLSpy 2010 here. WSDL 2.0 Supp (Read More)
Planet XML:
The W3C XML Secuirty Working Group has posted the first publicworkign dratf of Canonical XML Version 2.0. "Canonical XML Version2.0 is a major rewrite of Canonical XML Version 1.1 to addressissues around performance, streaming, hardware implementation,robustness, minimizing attack surface, determining what is signedand more (Read More)
Planet XML:
The Voice Browser WorkingGroup has published an updated Working Draft of State Chart XML(SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction.SCXMLis a general-purpose event-based state machine language that may beused in a number of ways, including as a high-level dialog languagecontrolling VoiceXML 3.0's encapsulated sp (Read More)