While a little bit out dated for its testing realm, this article holds some still useful information for the modern developer. "XML in the browser has been the subject of many spirited discussions about bleeding-edge web development. Some feel that XML in place of HTML isn’t ready for prime time due to the lack of user agents that can properly parse and render it. Others feel that XML really belongs on the server or used solely as a descriptive framework for data and has no place in the visual world of the Web which is already adequately served by
Since Elliotte Rusty Harold recommended "complete rejection of this specification until such time as Sun's patent can be dealt with more reasonably," the XML-dev mailing list has been discussing the licensing terms for the patent.
Daniel Veillard, who chaired XPointer meetings on the subject, noted that "We can't chase them all and if we did we would make no progress every effort would be wasted doing those Patent lookups and fighting them :-(((," though he clearly had little sympathy for the patent itself.
Tim Bray described the situation as "a
Uche Ogbuji wrote a good article on XML.com here is a summary: "I’m still getting my Weblogger profile here updated, but this year I transitioned from one company I co-founded to another. Zepheira provides data architecture solutions, with a focus on semantic technology. I was early on the Semantic Web bandwagon, and I almost fell off at one point because I felt the useful, modest ideas at the core had been overrun by an academic brand of technological megalomania. This year I felt the timing was right to not only renew my interest in the technology,
An important application of XML is the interchange of electronic data (EDI) between multiple data sources on the Web. As XML data proliferates on the Web, applications will need to integrate and aggregate data from multiple source and clean and transform data to facilitate exchange. Data extraction, conversion, transformation, and integration are all well-understood database problems, and their solutions rely on a query language. We present a query language for XML, called XML-QL, which we argue is suitable for performing the above tasks. XML-QL is a
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