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The Ox Documentation Tool
by Michael Fitzgerald
Ox is a simple documentation tool for people who regularly work at the shell or command-prompt level: a Java program that accepts a keyword or term as input and then returns documentation for that term.

Binary Waltz, Play On
by Robin Berjon
Robin Berjon argues that work at the W3C on binary XML must press on, in order to avoid the proprietary chaos that will result from a lack of standards in this area.

A Confusion of Styles
by John E. Simpson
In John E. Simpson's latest XML Q&A; column he discusses various styling options and alternatives for a nonstandard HTML variant.

Competing Claims and Interaction Types
by Kendall Grant Clark
Continuing his review of the W3C's Architecture of the World Wide Web document, Kendall Clark looks further at the principles set out governing interactions on the web.

Lightweight XML Search Servers
by Jon Udell
Jon Udell creates a lightweight XML search server using Python and the libxml/libxslt libraries.

Multimodal Interaction on the Web
by Peter Mikhalenko
The W3C's Multimodal Interaction Activity is developing specifications to support multiple forms of input and output with web applications. This report describes the purpose of the activity and outlines the two major vocabularies under development, InkML and EMMA.

Interacting with Resources: Web Architecture Review
by Kendall Grant Clark
Continuing his review of the W3C TAG's Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web document, Kendall Clark examines what the document has to say about interacting with web resources.

Inside XAML
by Ian Griffiths
One of Longhorn’s most interesting technologies for developers is its new XML-based markup language, codenamed XAML (short for eXtensible Application Markup Language, and pronounced "Zammel"). User interfaces in Longhorn applications are typically built using XAML. Ian Griffiths looks at how XAML relates to the underlying support provided by WinFX.

Concluding, Unscientific Postscript: Web Resource Identification
by Kendall Grant Clark
In his ongoing review of the W3C Technical Architecture Group's Architecture of the World Wide Web document, Kendall Clark discusses URI ambiguity, URI opacity and fragment identifiers.

Character Repertoire Validation for XML
by Erik Wilde
This article presents a schema language for limiting the range of characters permitted in an XML document. It can be used to protect legacy applications or to enforce restrictions in document workflows.

Building Dictionaries With SAX
by Uche Ogbuji
In Uche Ogbuji's latest Python and XML column he describes an optimization technique for speeding up Python XML applications by using SAX to build specialized Python dictionaries.

Translating XML Documents with xml:tm
by Andrzej Zydron
In order to reduce translation costs in an environment where documentation can change frequently the best answer is the use of translation memory, which works by aligning previously translated text in a target language with the source language. This article describes an improvment, known as "text memory", which allows translation and source text to reside in the same XML document.

The XML in Apple's Keynote
by David Miller
Dave Miller describes how to discover and use the XML format behind Apple's new presentation application.

Reviewing Web Architecture: Identification
by Kendall Grant Clark
Continuing his review of the W3C Technical Architecture Group's "Architecture of the World Wide Web", Kendall Clark focuses on the the web's addressing scheme, the URI.

From Word to XML
by John E. Simpson
In the year's last Q&A; column John E. Simpson discusses some of the issues surrounding the conversion of MS Word documents to XML.

Getting Started with XForms
by Bob DuCharme
Bob DuCharme provides an implementation-centered guide to using XForms, the new W3C forms technology for the web.

XML 2003 Conference Diary
by Eric van der Vlist
Eric van der Vlist, author of O'Reilly's books on RELAX NG and W3C XML Schema, shares his personal view of the recent XML 2003 Conference.

The Social Life of XML
by Jon Udell
In this write-up of his keynote address to the XML 2003 conference, Jon Udell explains that the key thing about XML is the way anXML document can become a shared construct, a tangible thing that processes and people can pass around and interact with.

Atom Authentication
by Mark Pilgrim
Mark Pilgrim explains why the Atom developers are using a new kind of authentication scheme, and he explains why it's necessary.

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