Cancun and a day trip to the Riviera Maya brings me to country number 16.
It's been a few years since I first considered DITA specialization. I wonder if I missed the point? I think that might depend on the assumptions that I brought to the table.
Balisage 2010 is only days away. (How did that happen?)
Announcing XML Calabash V0.9.23.
Announcing DocBook V5.1b2, the second beta release of (what will become) DocBook V5.1. Version 5.1 includes significant new features for topic-based authoring as well as a number of bug fixes.
Playing with ePUB. Validated ePUB this time.
Want to convert your favorite specification to ePUB? Here are the tools that I've been using. [Update: 10 June 2010] Much revised.
Playing with ePUB. In this episode, ePUB versions of W3C specifications. [Update 10 June 2010] Regenerated with stricter compliance to the ePUB rules; added a few more. Plus pretty covers!
Fame and fortune await you. And the opportunity to attack an interesting and significant problem.
Remembering another ash cloud.
CALS table markup is shared across many XML schemas. Does it make sense to create a namespace for this common vocabulary?
I'm delighted to say that we're finally finished. We've been finished for a while, really, but today's announcement of the Director's decision to advance XProc: An XML Pipeline Language to Recommendation status dots the final “i” and crosses the final “t”.
In which items from my childhood are recovered and replicated in the digital age.
I have a hammer.
I guess it's official, I'm writing another book.
A look at the intersection of the XML model PI, the XML stylesheet PI, and XProc.
Bring out yer demos! We're going to jam! This is your chance to show off in front of the largest annual gathering of XML and XQuery experts in the world at the Mark Logic User Conference.
I had a lot of fun last week hanging out with my new colleagues in engineering. Not that you should care. The part you should care about is: we're hiring.
Taking another stab at the long-standing problem of producing DTD (and XSD) versions of the DocBook V5.0 family of schemas.
I'm pleased to report that XProc: An XML Pipeline Language is now a W3C Proposed Recommendation.
An example, for better or worse, of automating website interaction with XProc.
Or, perhaps more to the point, where was I? And where will I be?
I recently had occasion to swap hard drives between two essentially identical laptops. A surprising number of apps knew the difference.
Demo Jam was a huge success at Balisage last year, so we're going to give it a go at XML Prague too!
On the serendipitous joy of finding XML.
Our engineering department has a project management philosophy they describe as GSD. I aspire to GSD.
See you at XML Prague! And a chance to plug some really excellent training.
Denise Miura, Sr. Director of Product Management will be speaking about Mark Logic's new offering for the Cloud at our upcoming User Group in New York this Wednesday.
Early in January, a new XProc draft will appear. It will be a Last Call Working Draft, a step backwards in the process, or maybe just a half-step. The reason is important though: versioning.
9 June 1923 — 26 November 2009.