Archive for the 'xml' Category

A game of “improve the attention format”

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

RebelGeekz:
“Now, let’s play a game, try to come up with a better alternative and then we keep improving it.”
I’ll happily play along - in fact I have a format brewing in the back of my head.
Right now thought, all I have time for is a couple of quick comments:

First, it’s difficult to tell what’s really […]

Simple Sharing Extensions up close…

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

I’ve been looking more closely at the SSE announcement since it came out; the next few posts are likely to be about this, and some (like this one) fairly (ok, very) long, so be forewarned….
After reading through the spec and accompanying FAQ, I started rifling through the commentary thread at memeorandum.1  Alex Barnett already has […]

Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Love this:
The objective of Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) is to define the minimum extensions necessary to enable loosely-cooperating appsXML Developer Center: Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML
From my 10 minute lookover of this, I’m pretty excited.  I don’t have time to completely grok the usage or to look for holes right now, but I’d […]

Dave’s OPML Validator Beta

Friday, October 28th, 2005

Dave’s made it to the web with his OPML Validator Beta. On the surface it seems a little more strict than Randy’s validator.
Dave’s linked to the caveats of the beta-ness of the tool, as well, which is pretty nice - especially the presence of the valid and invalid test files. As I linked […]

Microsoft Open Office XML

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

Microsoft release a new version of the Office XML standard today:

Microsoft Makes XML the File Format for the Next Version of Microsoft Office (press release)

New default XML formats in the next version of Office (Brian Jones, Word program manager blog post)

Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas(Microsoft’s Office XML webpage)

Brian Jones - New Office file formats announced […]