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Simon St. Laurent is an associate book editor at O'Reilly Media, Inc..

Ron Bilodeau is a graphic designer specializing in book template design and digital media.

Robin Nixon has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). One of the web sites he developed presented the world's first radio station licensed by the music copyright holders. In order to enable…

Micah Dubinko served as an editor and author of the XForms 1.0 W3C specification. Micah is the author of XForms Essentials, and is available for consulting.

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XML News & Commentary

Microsoft loses appeal on Custom XML - What else would be affected? Some XForms? Some XSLT? Some Schematron?

By Rick Jelliffe
December 23, 2009

Microsoft has lost its appeal on the Custom XML feature in Word 2007! To prevent confusion, the removal only applies to one feature in Word 200x that no-one would be using casually on homemade or general office documents. I wrote...

Saxon's author writes open letter to UK MP on patents

By Rick Jelliffe
December 14, 2009

Michael Kay has posted on his blog a letter to his MP Patents: an Open Letter to my MP. Why are patents in the software business bad? * Firstly, they reward failure and penalise success......

Japanese Standard for ODF

By Rick Jelliffe
December 8, 2009

Based on a cryptic twitter from Dr Murata, it looks like the Japanese standard for ODF has been released. Congratulations to all involved, it is a good step forward to enable competition, substitution and industry in this area. The ODF...

Climategate and XML

By Rick Jelliffe
December 3, 2009

One interesting artifact to come out of the stolen Climategate material is an epic file HARRY_READ_ME.txt. It seems to be a year long log by a programmer (Harry?) who has to port old data and various old FORTRAN (and MATLAB?)...

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Introduction to XML

In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of XML for use with XML-enabled applications or general web use. This course is an introduction to XML that prepares students with a foundation in one of the key elements of web programming. Upon completion of the course, students will earn 4 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) and a CEU letter from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education.

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