This weeks IT World XML In Practice Article : The most powerful idea ignored in the headlong rush to XML based data modeling.

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This week in XML in Practice, some navel gazing about XLink.

Opinion-free schemas? A pipe dream. Thats partly why I'm into pipeline processing:-)

My sole un-elidable notable modification to the Web is to ensure that the word cholarchy generates more than 1 google hit.

Sensible stuff on looselycoupled.com about the state of play/challenges ahead for web services orchestration. We ain't done with the plumbing by a long way and (whisper) applications will not magically be able to take advantage of the new model. Splitting an app into its component services and exposing the individual services is much easier said than done. Sprinkling angle brackets (XML) around won't make the componentization magically happen.

XML Ireland mailing list has moved to avoid a growing spam problem on the previous host. New location is http://listserv.heanet.ie/xmlireland.html. Thanks to Peter Flynn for setting this up.

An interesting portal-ish site for academic-ish stuff on electronic publishing : http://aims.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pep.nsf

Now is the time to start thinking about visiting beautiful Budapest for WWW2003