Living on the Edge by Liam Quin
Table of contents
- Living on the Edge
- Outline
- The Tao of XML
- Tao 1: Label the Parts
- Informal labels are better than no labels
- Computer-readable labels must also be human-readable
- People need to be able to define their own labels
- The value of data is multiplied when groups of people share labels
- When we share sets of labels
- People won't share labels unless it's easy
- Tao 2: Informal and Formal Labels
- When we share constraints on data we also share confidence in the labels.
- Labels are to be Shared
- Sharing...
- Tao 3: Explicit Structure
- Tao 4: All data is for Humans and Computers
- Potted History
- Some Tricky Details
- Notations and the Web
- Notation problems
- Notation: resolution
- Whitespace: the final frontier
- Whitespace: resolution
- Namespaces or Flamespaces?
- 1. Keeping names apart
- 2. Application-specific behaviour
- Flamespaces: Some problems with namespaces
- Some XML-related Specs
- Looking to the Future