XML.com features a rich mix of information and services for the XML community. en-us http://xml.com/pub Copyright 1999, O'Reilly and Associates and Seybold Publications dale@xml.com (Dale Dougherty) peter@xml.com (Peter Wiggin) http://xml.com/universal/images/xml_tiny.gif http://xml.com/pub 88 31 http://xml.com/pub/2000/07/05/specs/lastword.html?wwwrrr_rss The W3C's XML Schemas specification has just exited its Last Call phase, drawing many comments in the process. Everyone agrees on the urgency of this work, yet opinion is widely divided over the current draft. Liora Alschuler investigates. http://xml.com/pub/2000/07/05/xpathscript/index.html?wwwrrr_rss XPathScript brings the power of XPath into a familiar ASP-like web development environment, using mod_perl and Apache. In this article, XPathScript's author explains its main features and advantages. http://xml.com/pub/2000/07/05/hdml/index.html?wwwrrr_rss HDML is still a widespread language for marking up mobile phone content. Didier Martin introduces us to the differences between HDML and WML, and shows how HDML can be created from XML. http://xml.com/pub/2000/07/05/deviant/rss.html?wwwrrr_rss The popularity of RSS, the lightweight XML headline syndication format, is provoking moves to extend and advance its feature set. XML-Deviant reports on proposals and their connection with RDF and Namespaces. http://xml.com/pub/coverpage/newspage.html#ni2000-07-05-b Masashi Umezawa is developing 'Smalltalk Interchange Format in XML (SMIX)' as "a new Smalltalk Interchange Format. It is basically based on the ANSI Smalltalk Interchange Format (version 1.0)." The web site provides a SMIX XML DTD, a sample XML document, and an alpha version of a simple SMIX generator. The author's Dandelion tool will generate SMIX format. Dandelion is "a generic Smalltalk code analysis/output framework; you can analyze your code and output the information in va... http://xml.com/pub/coverpage/newspage.html#ni2000-07-05-a The W3C XSL Working Group, as part of the W3C User Interface Domain and participant in the Style Sheets Activity, has recently published a new charter. The document supplies detailed [public] information on the working group's Primary deliverables, Duration and Milestones, Relationship to other W3C activities, Liaison with groups outside the W3C, etc. Excerpt: "The XSL Working Group is chartered to continue the developement of XSL (extensible stylesheet language), a style sheet and t... http://xml.com/pub/coverpage/newspage.html#ni2000-07-04-a An XML DTD for Digital Talking Books (DTB) has been made available for review by the Digital Talking Book Standards Committee of The National Information Standards Organization (NISO). A NISO Digital Talking Book (DTB) "is envisioned to be, in its fullest implementation, a group of digitally-encoded files containing an audio portion recorded in human speech; the full text of the work in electronic form, marked with the tags of a descriptive markup language; and a linking file that syn... http://xml.com/pub/coverpage/newspage.html#ni2000-07-03-a The W3C specification XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0 has been promoted to the status of Candidate Recommendation. Reference: W3C Candidate Recommendation 3-July-2000. Edited by Steve DeRose (Brown University), Eve Maler (Sun Microsystems), David Orchard, and Ben Trafford (Yomu). The specification "is considered stable by the XML Linking Working Group and is available for public review during the Candidate Recommendation stage ending 3 October 2000." Feedback from the 'Last...