Archive for August, 2002

RTF in XML?

Saturday, August 10th, 2002

Apparently Jeni Tennison is presenting a way to do overlapping markup. Jeni wrote what I think is the best pragmatic, real-world XSLT book of all time, but the idea of overlapping markup hurts my brain. It can’t possibly be a good idea, can it?
In contrast to my most recent post on DMCA, a reader pointed […]

BPEL4WS

Thursday, August 8th, 2002

Looks like we made a press release about merging XLANG with efforts by BEA and IBM. The new name (BPEL4WS) is really horrible; no matter how you pronounce it, it has minimum 5 syllables. But at least it is guaranteed to see some widespread deployment, since it is so close to what Biztalk, WebSphere, and […]