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