The privilege of XML parsing - Data types, binary XML and XML pipelines

The privilege of XML parsing - Data types, binary XML and XML pipelines

My longest ever post to xml-dev but I had a lot to get off my chest :-)

Breaking out of rigid hierarchies with faceted classification and XFML

Doesn't this look nice? Dive Into Accessibility Facet Map.

I see a bright future for XFML. This is a good place to start: This is XFML on http://www.diveintomark.org/.

Me Too. Sign me up!

Excellent piece by Uche which cuts to the essence of what is wrong with the strong typing, everything is an object, all you need is RPC -view of XML (in my opinion:-)
XML class warfare.

Making the impossible very difficult

Making the impossible very difficult is the best mission statement I've every heard.

Why does scalability turn your app into a furball?

Why does bility hurt so much?. When I look at J2EE or .NET or any other "framework" I cannot help feeling that all the "for performance" considerations have been allowed to dominate the design patterns. Problems are not modelled for solution in these frameworks in a way that suites the problem - they are modelled in a way that suits the framework. I have a deeply held intuition about system design that this is plain wrong.

Make it work in the most natural problem-space-attuned framework you can. Then and only then, worry about scalability. My experience over and over again is that if you concentrate on simple, clean abstractions in your design, scalability will sort itself out with a little intelligent analysis and tweaking. Critically, it has been my experience that you can get the performance your need without bending your design completely out of shape this way.

A slow week in blogland

A real HTTP 304 all this week. Prepare for the storm next week - on all fronts.

Best geek blog subtitle I've ever seen

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/

tail -f /dev/mind >blog

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