Schedule: XML and the Web sessions

This presentation discusses some less obvious consequences, and explores various solutions which could be adopted in order to expedite popularity and increase utility of microformats. Read more.

Microformats have exploited standards such as vCard and vCalendar. TripBlox takes microformats into the travel space with an Atom based format for publishing trip ideas. Read more.

Navigating XML in Ajax can be daunting and perilous. This session explains a pipeline approach to consuming XML. XSLT transforms, data formats, and Ajax application trade-offs will be discussed. Read more.

This session examines XML technologies and strategies for building lighter-weight AJAX applications, including JSON/XML converters, E4X, and ATOM messaging systems Read more.

Discusses XProc: An XML Pipeline Language, a specification developed at the W3C for describing operations to be performed on XML documents. With luck, a Recommendation by December. Read more.

This talk outlines our team’s findings on the properties of XML documents and XPath expressions “in the wild”. Read more.

Many newer websites are offering REST as an xml web service interface. Learn how Ruby on Rails allows developers to program their entire app in a RESTful nature, and dramatically reduce dev time. Read more.

We share approaches & lessons-learned from efforts to leverage microformats & mashups to expose common information (e.g., events, locations, points-of-contact) to support 21st century warfighters. Read more.

This paper introduces the Open Data Foundation, a non-profit promoting a standard infrastructure for the exchange of data and metadata for statistics and research. Read more.

OASIS Open Document Format specifies how to represent office document such as text documents, presentations and spreadsheets in XML. We show how it can be made web accessible and group editable. Read more.

This session examines the model for the Internet as a platform of interconnected devices, delves into changes in the model, & examines the technology & business pattern better known as the Web 2.0. Read more.

A developer-oriented introduction to the Atom Publishing Protocol and the Apache Abdera project. Read more.

WebPath is an experimental XPath-2-based query language designed to treat the web as effectively a single XML document. The talk discusses design considerations as well as an implementation in Python. Read more.

Applications built on 'skimming' principles are very loosely-coupled, and can run on just about any server-side architecture. Read more.

Miguel de Icaza will talk about efforts to create an compatible Linux browser plugin compatible Microsoft's new Silverlight web platform. Read more.

LINQ to XML is a modernized in-memory XML programming API designed to enhance developer productivity, especially when developing Silverlight applications for the web. Read more.