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For those of you (like myself sadly) who wanted to go to XMLPrague 2010 but couldn't, James Fuller has announced that there is an XMLPrague Twitter Wall (http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/twitterwall) that features live video streaming as well as twitter comments from participants. You can also follow the proceeds (and comment along) by using the #xmlprague tag in your Twitter posts.

The 8th international conference on Scalable Vector Graphics will take place from August 30 to September 2, in Paris, France, hosted by Telecom ParisTech. At this conference you can learn about subjects varying from specialized technical visualizations to interactive multimedia art. On the program there are presentations, beginner and advanced level workshops, and the opportunity to meet people from the SVG community, industry and the W3C SVG Working Group. Read more »

Preparing for flying to XML Prague 2010, I was thinking about corresponding objectives. Of course, at Prague, I will talk about XForms and XSLTForms but XML deserves more! Read more »

Editor's Note: XBRL, like a number of XML domain specifications, is facing a real problem with finding sufficient skilled experts to be able to make the technology "take off". Blogger Daniel Roberts recently interviewed David Blaszkowsky, Director of the SECs Office of Interactive Data (OID), about the issues involved in locating and/or training such experts. Daniel kindly assented to let me reprint this, which I feel is a must read not only for those looking at getting into XBRL, but into any deep XML domain. Read more »

In some discussion below, the problem of XML culture in developer's world is mentionned

See comments from Kurt responding to Aspyker (http://www.xmltoday.org/content/pain-xml-web-20)

For most of developpers, XML is a convenient way to vehicule parameters and values. but a constraint because one must close the tags. Read more »

XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0 are widely supported.

Unfortunately, XPath 1.0 doesn't come with mathematical functions such as "sqrt", "sin", "cos", "ln",... XPath 2.1 surely will but we'll have to wait to see it available in every environment.

Because such functions may be required for graphics generation, a workaround has to be used. Hopefully, named templates can be defined with XSLT 1.0: a name, one or more parameters and every XSLT 1.0 possibility, recursion to be used instead of loops. Read more »

I have continued to think about the end to end XML story across database, middle tier, and the browser client. I have talked to many organizations that work with standard industry XML documents (HL7, OAGIS, ACCORD, etc) where the XML view unifies the data of their entire enterprise. To these organizations, they work data out from the message queues to data storage to middle tier. However, what does it look like when they want to expose this data to the web tier? There are products that handle this well like Lotus Forms based on XML centric standards like XForms. Read more »

Just a quick notification of new and existing public deliveries of XML-related training by Crane Softwrights Ltd. as we travel in Europe, North America and the world in 2010:

2010-03-04 - Free Internet Lectures using Skype and Yugma
17:00UTC Introduction to the Universal Business Language
18:00UTC Introduction to Code List Implementation in XML
http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/index.html#upcoming
(seats are still available; groups are encouraged)

2010-03-15 - 5-day hands-on XSLT/XQuery* Read more »

You may remember a similar demo back in the open beta timeframe.  Now, the IBM Thin Client for XML with WebSphere Application Server v7.0 is available based upon the shipping version of the XML Feature Pack.  The following video will show you how to get up and running in about five minutes (including download time). Read more »

This pre-conference symposium co-located with Balisage 2010 should
be of interest to readers of this list. Please forward as appropriate.
And if you have a department bulletin board, you might print out
the flyer at http://balisage.net/Handouts/LongHaulCall.pdf and put
it up for others to see. I look forward to your paper proposals
and your attendance! -Michael Sperberg-McQueen

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Call for Participation:
International Symposium on XML for the Long Haul Read more »