Monthly Archives: July 2005

I am not a big fan of naming conventions but I don’t like to be obliged to follow naming conventions that do not seem to make sense! One of the issues added by W3C XML Schema is that, in addition … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to read more carefully the press release made back in January 2005 to announce QuarkXPress Markup Language (QXML). My first guess, before clicking on the link, was that QXML would be an XML vocabulary. Wrong … Continue reading →

There is a tendency, among XML gurus, to deprecate everything from the XML recommendation that is not element or attribute and XML constructions such as comments or processing instructions have been deprecated de facto by specifications such as W3C XML … Continue reading →

Spreadsheet tables are full of holes and spreadsheet processors such as OpenOffice or Excel have implemented hacks to avoid having to store empty cells. In the case of Excel, that’s done using ss:Index and ss:MergeAcross attributes. While these attributes are … Continue reading →