xmlhack: Editors' Newswire for 15 December, 2003

A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 15 December, 2003.

Dare Obasanjo's notes from XML 2003
from Edd Dumbill at 22:07, 15 Dec

"... the conference seemed targetted mostly at the ex-SGML crowd (or document-centric XML users) although this time there wasn't the significant focus on Semantic Web technologies such as topic maps that I saw last year."

Norm Walsh's reflections on XML 2003
from Edd Dumbill at 14:45, 15 Dec

"... it?s a tough balancing act to keep the suits and the markup geeks equally happy. I think the organizers succeeded; at least they kept this geek happy."

W3C TAG: Unfinished business or losing the plot?
from Edd Dumbill at 00:45, 15 Dec

Comment on Kendall Clark's report from the W3C TAG Town Hall meeting in Philadelphia.