Weiqi Gao's Observations - xml tag

No Language Is Simple That Begins With...

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:46:12 GMT

... something like the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blah xmlns="http://www.blahblahframework.org/schema/blahblahblah"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.blahblahframework.org/schema/blahblahblah
                          http://www.blahblahframework.org/schema/blahblah/blahblah-blahblahblah-2.0.xsd">
  <!-- YOUR CODE HERE -->
</blah>

Something's Going On In The XML World

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:05:35 GMT

Something is going on in the XML world, where as far as I can feel and tell, things have been working "just fine" for the past 20(?) years.

That's why I can't believe what some people (in the W3C) were trying to do:

David Carlisle: ... This sets a really terrible precedence, and sadly puts XML into a similar state as HTML, where the specification will be widely ignored (as it will be inconsistent) and people will have no choice other than just to test against a collection of major implementations and do whatever they do.

James Clark: There is a real problem here, and it's partly my fault. If we had had a bit more foresight ten years ago, we would have made the 1st edition of XML 1.0 say what is now being proposed for the 5th Edition. I know that the XML Core WG are trying to do the right thing, but I really don't think this is a good idea.

Sound like another case of old timers saying: "No, no, leave it alone. You don't know what kind of a mess your are getting us into."

Java News Brief (JNB): Writing API for XML (WAX)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:20:29 GMT

I've fallen behind on reporting OCI's Java News Brief (JNB) articles, again, lately. But this month's article made the job so easy: Mark Volkmann wrote it. It's about his open source Writing API for XML library. And you can watch it:

I hope I never have to write XML by hand, but if I do need to, WAX sounds like a pretty nifty library.