XMLhack XML news http://xmlhack.com/ Developer news from the XML community en-us Edd Dumbill (mailto:webmaster@xmlhack.com) Edd Dumbill (mailto:editor@xmlhack.com) Copyright 1999-2001, xmlhack team. xmlhack http://xmlhack.com/images/mynetscape88.gif http://xmlhack.com News, opinions, tips and issues concerning XML development Why XML 1.1? http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2160 The W3C has published XML 1.1 and namespaces in XML 1.1, two recommendations which don't change that many things but may have an important impact for XML applications, unless they are ignored by a vast majority. W3C XML XML 1.1, Namespaces in XML 1.1, at Proposed Recommendation http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2099 Plodding slowly toward Recommendation, the Proposed Recommendations for XML 1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.1 have been published. Review for both ends 5 December 2003. XML W3C Are PIs deprecated? http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1883 Jeni Tennison reopens the debate about Processing Instructions (PIs) on xml-dev by proposing to define guidelines for using them. XML Community XML-DEV thread watch: the role of class and type in XML http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1853 Discussion of the role of data typing and other artefacts from programming languages and classical DBMS never seems to end on XML-DEV. Simon St.Laurent fired up the debate again with a twist by linking Uche Ogbuji's article XML class warfare. The article made whimsical reference to the debate as a "class war" between "bohemians" and "gentry". A long and very interesting sequence of threads ensued. Community XML The RDDL Challenge http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1841 On behalf of the W3C TAG, Tim Bray asked the XML community for examples of what documentation at the end of a namespace should look like, using RDDL (Resource Directory Description Language) as a starting point. Several interesting alternatives have been proposed. Namespaces XML XML 1.1 reaches Candidate Recommendation http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1805 The W3C has released a Candidate Recommendation of XML 1.1, with changes to control-character and Unicode normalization handling. XML W3C One tree isn't enough http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1790 Patrick Durusau and Jeni Tennison have announced two complementary approaches to support multiple overlapping structures over a single document. XML Community Topologi Collaborative Markup Editor 1.0 released http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1748 Topologi builds a variety of novel features and emphases into this editor, including strong support for non-well-formed and non-valid documents, and SGML modes. Tools XML