XML was originally designed for the web, but with alternatives like JSON gaining popularity, does XML have a future there? A panel of experts will participate in a discussion with the audience to open up the XML 2007 conference.
Douglas Crockford discovered the JSON data interchange format.
Michael Day is the founder of YesLogic and the architect of the Prince formatter, a powerful tool for getting web content onto paper. Michael specialises in XML technologies and declarative programming and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne.
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen is a member of the technical staff of the World Wide Web Consortium, an international membership organization responsible for developing Web standards. He co-edited the XML 1.0 specification and the <title>Guidelines</title> of the Text Encoding Initiative. His Erdos number is 6.