Category: Web technologies & information standards (Page 31 of 58)

Some news from the W3C:

The XSL Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Requirements Version 2.0. This document enumerates the collected requirements for a 2.0 version of XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO), not for XSLT. XSL-FO is widely deployed in industry and academia where multiple output forms (typically print and online) are needed from single source XML. It is used in many diverse applications and countries on a large number of implementations to create technical documentation, reports and contracts, terms and conditions, invoices and other forms processing, such as driver’s licenses and postal forms. The XSL Working Group invites people to help prioritize the feature set of XSL 2.0 by completing a survey until the end of September 2008.

I talk to developers who have ideas about improving XLST. Now is your chance.

For those of you who follow structured FDA submissions such as RPS (Regulated Product Submissions) and SPL (Structured Product Labeling), you should be interested in XPortal.,a portal for preparing electronic submissions for the FDA. Under the direction of the FDA, GlobalSubmit has developed XForms that capture these submissions.

There’s an interesting discussion about XML repositories going on over at the XQuery Talk mailing list at Stylus Studio’s website. Also, if you are interested in XML repositories, the best publicly available deep-dive is over at Ron Bourret’s site.

• Apropos of nothing: when I hear people talking about “tagging” songs in a radio ad, I know that the average person understands markup and metadata even if they don’t necessarily use those words.
• Over at CMSWatch, Shawn Shell has a report on last week’s SharePoint conference. Shawn notes that SharePoint has now excelled a billion in revenue and 100 million licenses.
• Jeff Potts has some thoughts on the clash of cultures with the recent co-location of AIIM and DrupalCon.
• CM Pros has just put out their call for papers for their spring conference, to be co-located with Gilbane San Francisco in June.
• Bob Ducharme has a new tutorial about DITA specialization over at IBM’s developerWorks site.