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Intrepid XMLer Norman Walsh lists his reasons for taking the XML 2.0 plunge.

Maybe its madness to consider XML 2.0 seriously. The cost of deployment would be significant. Simultaneously convincing a critical mass of users to switch without turning the design process into a farce would be very difficult. And yet, the alternatives look a little like madness too. More...

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Jack Ozzie, George Moromisato, Matt Augustine, Paresh Suthar and Steven Lees, Microsoft Corporation

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Although this is an old article, I still found it a rather fresh overview of how REST differs from RPC which is similar to the difference between Object Oriented programming versus function calls.

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/01/05/restful.html

The VTD-XML team says:
We are proud to announce the availability of both C and Java version 1.5 of VTD-XML, the next generation open-source XML parser that goes beyond DOM and SAX in terms of performance, memory usage and ease of use.

Arabica is a C++ XML parsing framework that supports XPath 1.0, SAX, and DOM. The XPath implementation is unique to Arabica, but the SAX and DOM implementations utilize Xerces, Expat, libxml, or MSXML (selectable at compile time). C++ developers who only need these technologies can now avoid writing thousands of lines of code that are dependent upon a particular parser!

Location: Oracle, Redwood Shores, California

The W3C is asking for your (yes, You!) experiences with XML Schema. Do you like it? Do you hate it? The W3C wants to know.

Update: This page now contains minutes from the conference.

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Ed Dumbill describes why he chose to use RDF instead of a POXD in his DOAP initiative.

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Mark Nottingham has released version .5 of his Python-based library for processing RDF triples.

The developer of Arabica has some choice words for the Oracle XML parser developers. In which I complain about Oracle's XML parser ....