Ryan Tomayko

JSONQuery —

XPath-like syntax for expressing selection queries against JSON data structures. Interesting concept. I’ve always wondered why the basic concepts behind XPath were never borrow and applied to other types of structured data — it’s so insanely useful. I suppose jQuery popularized using CSS selectors for querying HTML but why not take the same basic concept and apply it to problem domains outside of SGML-inspired markup languages and their data models.

IBM Web services guru predicts WSDL future —

From 2002: “On this latter specification, Sutor is emphatic: web services are defined by whether they are described in WSDL.”

Håkon's Wium Lie —

Ahh, it turns out Håkon’s Wium Lie (Opera CTO and the guy who first proposed CSS) is on YesLogic’s board, makers of PrinceXML. I’m not sure how I missed that.

Sam Ruby: Genshi Filters for Venus —

“In the remaining four templates, the translation from XSLT to Genshi markup is straightforward. And generally, the Genshi markup is both more compact and more powerful.”

Aristotle Pagaltzis takes both sides of the XML 2.0 debate -- my feelings exactly —

“There are cases where you really do want that. There are cases when you don’t. There are cases where it’s half this, half that; cases, say, where you only want charset sniffing. There are cases where you want a pony. Not every document has the same g

Which Part of "No XML" Don't You Understand? —

Ouch!

Apple - iTunes - Podcasting —

bout' time

United States Patent: 6,880,125 —

“System and method for XML parsing” – BEA Systems, Inc.

Show Me the Code —

Joe Gregorio’s second installment in his series on building RESTful applications shows us how to build a bookmark service kind of like del.icio.us. He nailed this one really nicely.

XForms Add-On for Mozilla Coming Soon —

bout time..

Metacrap —

I love this paper…

On Semantics and Markup —

More goodness from the archives of Tim Bray.

XML/XSLT/CSS/JavaScript/ Treeview component.. —

..that rocks. Quite possible the only javascript treeview I’d ever consider using.

The Atom Syndication Format 0.3 —

I know it says 0.2 in the URL and PRE-DRAFT in the title but this as normative as you can get with the 0.3 feeds in the wild.

Wrestling HTML —

XML.com: Dealing with tagsoup HTML in Python.

Scimitar - A Python implementation of ISO Schematron —

Uche Ogbuji. Compiles schematron schema to python.

XML Path Language (XPath) —

W3C Recommendation 16 November 1999

XSL Transformations (XSLT) —

W3C Recommendation.

TAL/TALES & METAL Reference Guide —

SimpleTAL reference.

Identifying Atom [xml.com] —

atom:id will use URIs (hurray). markp explains why.

Implementing REST Web Services: Best Practices and Guidelines

Gallery of Stupid XSL/XSLT Tricks

Proper XML Output in Python [xml.com] —

On entity substitution and whatnot..

XHTML Frequently Answered Questions

Introducing o:XML [xml.com] —

Oh God, please no. XML is not fun to program in!

XML on the Web Has Failed [xml.com] —

“Syndicated feeds are wildly popular, but they’re not a success for XML. XML on the Web has failed: miserably, utterly, and completely.”

Mastering DocBook Indexes

Longhorn follow-up: Quentin Clark Interview —

Jon Udell’s outtakes from an interview with Quentin Clark (director/WinFS)

XML.com: XML Source Highlighting —

Need to get this in the blog.