Editorial

A good friend and I were at the pub the other evening enjoying Prague's finest pilsner and amongst many interesting topics we got to discussing the release of the iPad.

This conversation started a line of reasoning which seems to have been repeated after the iPad launch which I fully agree with e.g. that the iPad may represent (as the iPhone does somewhat now) a new (old?) form of vendor lockin where distribution is controlled and the client device is a closed system. Read more »

XML's dead - at least if you believe the JSON fanatics. Its moldering rotting corpse is now gathering flies while JSON emerges as the dominant data messaging standard world-wide and AJAX reins supreme. The language is now pushing up the daisies. XML is, to pardon the pun, an ex-language. I know, because ZDNet is now reporting that XML is, if not quite dead yet, then definitely at death's door, and that JSON will be the undertaker. Read more »

T'was the night before XML-mas, when all through the cubicles,

Not a marketing person was stirring, not even those with painted cuticles;

Michael Kay's manuals were placed on the bookshelf with care,

In hopes that St. TBL soon would appear.

The programmers were nestled all snug in their den,

With dreams that their workflows were functioning again.

And I with my laptop, and Eve's WS stack,

Had just settled down for a long winter's hack,

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Editor's Note: This was first published 9 November 2009 Read more »

On the older site, this particular article was one of the most popular - or at least the most controversial. As part of my restoration, I'm reposting it, but I also wanted to add a couple of additional thoughts I've had about the issue since I first wrote it.

... and we're back! About a year ago I laid the foundation for a website called XMLToday.org, with a vision towards covering a number of issues that pertained to the XML community and those people who used XML related technologies to build applications, create documentation, create messenging architectures and otherwise communicate with people. Read more »