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RDF Parsing in XSLT

During the recent discussion of the OAI-ORE drafts (which use RDF), the claim was made that RDF is serialized in RDF/XML and thus could be considered an XML representation of the underlying data model. My response to that was that... Read more →

Associating Resources with Namespaces

The W3C just published a new TAG Finding called Associating Resources with Namespaces. Here's the abstract: This Finding addresses the question of how ancillary information (schemas, stylesheets, documentation, etc.) can be associated with a namespace. I don't quite understand why... Read more →

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ICANN just announced that starting next year, you can get your own DNS Top-Level Domain (TLD). TLDs are the rightmost part of DNS names, names like .com and .de; some of them are called generic (gTLD), and others are called... Read more →

XML Fever

have you ever heard of tree trauma, infoset ignorance, model myopia, or RDF rage? if not, and you are interested in these and other XML-related ailments, you might want to read about XML fevers: The Extensible Markup Language (XML), which... Read more →

SOA Naming Contest

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a very high-level concept, and thus just defines one very simple design constraint: build you information system around services. this constraint can be used in various architectural styles. one of these styles is Representational State... Read more →

New W3C Drafts (XSD & RDFa)

today, the W3C released new versions (both parts 1 and 2) of XML Schema. the last time a new draft was released (back in september), i hailed the decision to finally give the language an official acronym, XSDL. i was... Read more →

LocWeb 2009

after a successful LocWeb 2008 workshop at WWW2008 (we received 30 submissions and accepted 14 papers for the workshop, which is pretty decent for a first-time event), we are now asking ourselves whether there should be a Second International Workshop... Read more →

Web-Based SMS

firefox 3 (released yesterday) has many interesting new features, among them web-based protocol handlers. these allow for web-based services what previously was only possible for locally installed programs: to have a service handle a certain URI scheme (protocol in firefox... Read more →

Firefox 3

firefox 3 has been released today. it is still slowish and quite a memory hog, when compared to really nimble browsers such as opera, but compared to firefox 2, it is a substantial improvement. and it finally does proper image... Read more →

LocWeb Mailing List

to keep the community interested in Location and Web a little bit better connected, we now have a LocWeb mailing list available at [email protected]. this list is open to anybody, but only subscribers can post to it. please subscribe through... Read more →