Cameron Laird's personal notes on XML

When I think of XML as "SGML Light", I'm complimenting it.

Among the good articles written on XML:

Ed Tittle's "What's the point ...?"
Jonathon Rich's great manual on "XML and the IT architect"
Uche Ogbuji's suggestive "XML: The future of EDI?"
A tutorial in IBM's developerWorks collection

Of course, XLL, MathML, and CML interest me. I'm still deciding about OpenTag. RDF is behind everything savvy W3Cers do, as near as I can tell.

Client-side XML mostly makes me yawn. One of the first responsibilities one has in reading much conventional wisdom about XML is to discard its emphasis on client-side processing and rendering.

[Explain inferiority of DHTML.]

[Explain accessibility of XML through such languages as Java, Perl, Python, REBOL, Rexx, Tcl, ...]

[Explain some of the W3C controveries around XML--why XSL is going wrong, for example.]

Cameron Laird's personal notes on XML/claird@phaseit.net