Category Archives: XML

XHTML 2.0 and HTML 5: The figures

This post has been updated to take into account a mail from Björn Höhrmann with a heads-up about missing elements in the XHTML 2.0 list of elements. The future of (X)HTML appears to be searching its way between two conflicting … Continue reading

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Bitten by text html for XHTML documents

The W3C “XHTML media types” note mentions that: XHTML documents served as ‘text/html’ will not be processed as XML [XML10], e.g. well-formedness errors may not be detected by user agents. Also be aware that HTML rules will be applied for … Continue reading

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RELAX NG and W3C XML Schema compared (continued)

A lot of comparisons have already been published on this topic, but there are still plenty of misunderstanding when comparing W3C XML Schema so called Object Oriented features with RELAX NG patterns. Many people complain that RELAX NG does not … Continue reading

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Client side XSLT brings live to static HTML pages and microformats

I am making all kind of tests for the chapter about multimedia of our upcoming Web 2.0 book and as it is often the case when I am writing, this is sparkling a number of strange ideas. I was exploring … Continue reading

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Too many SVG profiles

Our upcoming Web 2.0 book is giving me the opportunity to have a closer look to the state of SVG. After all kind of announcements for native SVG support in browsers, I was expecting that with my new Ubuntu Dapper … Continue reading

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Web 2.0 at XML Prague

This coming week-end, I’ll have the pleasure to be at XML Prague, a small and friendly XML conference in a wonderful city. This year, I’ll leave out my usual XML schema languages expert hat to speak on two topics: An … Continue reading

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Normalizing Excel’s SpreadsheetML using XSLT – Part 2

As reported by one of the comments, there was a bug in the XSLT transformation which “normalizes” Excel’s SpreadsheetML documents that I had posted in a previous post. I have fixed this bug and the new version is: <?xml version=”1.0″?> … Continue reading

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The influence of microformats on style-free stylesheets

It’s been a while, almost six years, since I have written my Style-free XSLT Style Sheets piece for XML.com but this simple technique remains one of my favorite. It has not only been my first article published on XML.com but … Continue reading

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Web 2.0 the book

One of the reasons I have been too busy to blog these days is the project to write a comprehensive book about Web 2.0 technologies. If Web 2.0 is about using the web as a platform, this platform is far … Continue reading

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Validating microformats

This blog entry is following up Norm Walsh’s essay on the same subject. The first thing I’d want to react on isn’t the fact that RELAX NG isn’t suitable for this task, but the reason why this is the case. … Continue reading

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