Norman.Walsh.nameNorm's musings. Make of them what you will.http://norman.walsh.name/atom/whatsnew.xml2012-02-09T12:15:14.823228ZNorman WalshSVG Calendarshttp://norman.walsh.name/2012/01/31/svgcal2012-02-01T00:26:23Z2012-02-01T00:26:54.911681ZXMLMarkLogic

A little XQuery magic for making SVG calendars.

Countdown to XML Prague!http://norman.walsh.name/2012/01/19/xmlPrague20122012-01-19T22:01:25Z2012-01-19T22:01:40.730174ZXMLPrague2012MarkLogicXML

See you again in Prague!

XML Calabash 0.9.44http://norman.walsh.name/2012/01/10/xmlCalabash9442012-01-10T15:09:49Z2012-01-10T15:10:41.285828ZCalabashJavaXMLProgrammingXProc

Announcing what I hope is the last pre-1.0 beta release of XML Calabash.

DocBook XSD!http://norman.walsh.name/2011/12/22/docbookXSD2011-12-22T20:05:22Z2011-12-22T20:05:43.554457ZXMLDocBook

I believe that I've resolved the ambiguity problems evident in the previous release.

DocBook XSD?http://norman.walsh.name/2011/12/19/docbookXSD2011-12-19T16:31:31Z2011-12-19T16:32:03.150208ZXMLDocBook

But is it valid? Not the document, the schema?

Congratulations Geert!http://norman.walsh.name/2011/10/25/congrats2011-10-25T16:49:01Z2011-10-25T16:51:35.619845ZXMLXProc

Congratulations to Geert on his winning entry to the XML Holland 2011 Challenge.

Playing with transclusionhttp://norman.walsh.name/2011/10/03/transclusion2011-10-04T16:12:42Z2011-10-04T16:14:26.104676ZDocBookW3CXML

In my continuing efforts to explore transclusion, some running code.

Balisage 2011http://norman.walsh.name/2011/07/21/balisage20112011-07-21T20:28:12Z2011-07-21T20:29:05.379239ZBalisage2011XML

I've been so heads-down working on my Balisage presentation, I almost forgot to mention…Balisage!

XML v.nexthttp://norman.walsh.name/2011/03/28/XMLvNext2011-04-04T13:38:28Z2011-04-04T13:39:31.777485ZXMLXMLPrague2011

If you weren't paying attention when XML was being designed, it may seem odd that it carries so much SGML heritage on its back. Surely, it could have been made even simpler if it didn't have to be compatible with SGML. And it really didn't, did it?

Demo Jam at XML Prague!http://norman.walsh.name/2011/03/23/demojam2011-03-23T11:29:25Z2011-03-23T11:29:56.252716ZMarkLogicXMLXMLPrague2011

Bring out yer demos! We're going to jam again at XML Prague!

Thinking about the HTML and XMLhttp://norman.walsh.name/2011/02/08/html-xml2011-02-10T14:32:02Z2011-02-10T14:33:15.50534ZTAGW3CHTMLXML

After considering a set of use cases, the HTML/XML Task Force has decided to issue a report of its findings. This is not that report. These are some notes, musings, and experimental prose.

Introducing the W3C HTML/XML Task Forcehttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/12/21/html-xml2010-12-21T21:47:34Z2010-12-21T21:52:00.957587ZTAGW3CXMLHTML

At the W3C Technical Plenary in November, the creation of an HTML/XML Task Force was announced. Today, that task force took its first steps down what I hope will be a fruitful path.

Transclusionhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/12/15/transclusion2010-12-15T22:04:30Z2010-12-15T22:07:04.731687ZXMLDocBook

Transclusion comes in many flavors, some more easily supported than others.

Deprecating XMLhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/11/17/deprecatingXML2010-11-17T19:57:57Z2010-11-17T20:03:40.019961ZXML

The X in AJAX not withstanding, XML is not the darling of web API designers.

XML Calabash V0.9.23http://norman.walsh.name/2010/07/27/xmlcalabash09232010-07-27T20:02:49Z2010-10-08T18:44:03.06627ZCalabashJavaProgrammingXMLXProc

Announcing XML Calabash V0.9.23.

ePUB, second attempthttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/06/10/epubredux2010-06-10T22:02:54Z2010-10-08T18:43:51.775293ZOASISW3CXML

Playing with ePUB. Validated ePUB this time.

ePUB toolshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/06/09/epubxpl2010-06-09T10:24:09Z2010-10-08T18:43:48.293621ZW3CXMLXProc

Want to convert your favorite specification to ePUB? Here are the tools that I've been using. [Update: 10 June 2010] Much revised.

ePUB specificationshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/06/07/epub2010-06-07T23:19:41Z2010-10-08T18:43:44.5579ZOASISW3CXML

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!

A Namespace for CALS Tables?http://norman.walsh.name/2010/05/12/calsns2010-05-12T12:41:30Z2010-10-08T18:43:32.930091ZXML

CALS table markup is shared across many XML schemas. Does it make sense to create a namespace for this common vocabulary?

XProc is a W3C Recommendation!http://norman.walsh.name/2010/05/11/xproc2010-05-11T13:16:09Z2010-10-08T18:43:29.042312ZW3CXMLXProc

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”.

“Default” XML Processinghttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/04/09/xmldefault2010-04-09T15:27:38Z2010-10-08T18:43:13.860339ZXMLXProc

A look at the intersection of the XML model PI, the XML stylesheet PI, and XProc.

Creating a DocBook V5.0 DTDhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/03/18/rng2dtd2010-03-18T19:38:13Z2010-10-08T18:43:00.635037ZDocBookW3CXMLSchemaXMLXProc

Taking another stab at the long-standing problem of producing DTD (and XSD) versions of the DocBook V5.0 family of schemas.

XProc Proposed Recommendation!http://norman.walsh.name/2010/03/10/XProcProposedRecommendation2010-03-10T11:01:16Z2010-10-08T18:42:57.210668ZW3CXMLXProc

I'm pleased to report that XProc: An XML Pipeline Language is now a W3C Proposed Recommendation.

Demo Jam at XML Prague!http://norman.walsh.name/2010/02/23/demojam2010-02-23T20:13:39Z2010-10-08T18:42:44.425496ZMarkLogicXMLXMLPrague2010

Demo Jam was a huge success at Balisage last year, so we're going to give it a go at XML Prague too!

XML FTW!http://norman.walsh.name/2010/01/25/xml2010-01-25T22:21:37Z2010-10-08T18:42:41.24562ZSoftwareXML

On the serendipitous joy of finding XML.

XML Summer School ’09http://norman.walsh.name/2009/10/05/xmlss092009-10-05T23:36:02Z2010-10-08T18:41:11.197719ZPhotographyTravelXMLXMLSummerSchool2009

Open source and web technologies at XML Summer School.

SQL to XMLhttp://norman.walsh.name/2009/09/26/sqltoxml2009-09-26T12:01:23Z2010-10-08T18:40:57.254207ZOSXXML

A number of Mac applications store information in SQLite databases. Step one to do something useful with that data is to get it into XML.

Perhaps the penultimate XProc drafthttp://norman.walsh.name/2009/05/28/xproc2009-05-28T16:44:39Z2010-10-08T18:40:13.395409ZW3CXMLXProc

Today, the XML Processing Model Working Group published a new working draft. Not the very last working draft, but possibly very close.

126 issues: resolved!http://norman.walsh.name/2009/04/30/126issues2009-04-30T22:11:46Z2010-10-08T18:39:54.670611ZW3CXMLXProc

Today, the XProc WG reached consensus on the last of the 126 issues submitted during our Candidate Recommendation period.

Landmark XML Calabash Momenthttp://norman.walsh.name/2009/04/28/100percent2009-04-28T14:17:00Z2010-10-08T18:39:51.111625ZCalabashJavaProgrammingXMLXProc

For the first time ever, (I assert) XML Calabash passes 100% of the XProc test suite!