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EPUB Creation Just Got Simpler
May 12 2008
BookGlutton makes .epub files easier to create with a simple Web form that accepts an HTML file and returns an .epub file. read moreHistory Repeats: Teaching Publishers Markup
February 12 2008
As someone who arrived much later to the XML party than most of my peers & mentors, this week's series of XML @ 10 years posts has been a wonderful history lesson. Today, Norm Walsh posted an even more surprising... read moreDocBook V5.0 (Committee Draft) is done!
February 06 2008
Via Norm, DocBook V5.0 is done. Woot! Committee Draft! Thanks to all who worked on this. Formally, too. ... read moreDecember 05 2007
Here's my notes from the last day of XML Conference 2007. David has collected some of the blogging about the conference.... read moreDecember 04 2007
This is the continuation of blogging from XML Conference 2007. See yesterday's post for more.... read moreDecember 03 2007
Just like last year, I'll be blogging from XML Conference 2007. Rather than imposing some editorial structure, this'll simply be a serialization of the things I hear from various speakers in various sessions. ... read moreDocBook in the Wild: A Look at Newer Content
May 07 2007
Here's a quick follow-up to earlier post about DocBook elements in the wild. This time I'm focusing on five more recent titles that were all typeset using our DocBook-XSL stylesheet customizations. ... read moreMay 02 2007
The newly-formed DocBook SubCommittee for Publishers is currently researching commonly-used DocBook elements to explore whether a subset of DocBook 5.0 would be generally useful. I've been spending a lot of time getting O'Reilly's (DocBook 4.4) content into our new Atom... read moreAtom Publishing Protocol Interop a Success
April 18 2007
The first interoperability session for Atom Publishing Protocol implementations (both clients and servers) was a success. The best news was that many of the clients and servers were able to interoperate with little to no tweaking despite never having met... read moreXML Conf 2006 Closing Keynote (Bosak)
January 11 2007
Jon Bosak's closing keynote from XML Conference 2006 has just been posted. It's worth reading for anyone interested in XML history (or XML for that matter). It's also worth noting as a member of that rare breed of documents that... read moreDecember 07 2006
Here's the final day of my stream-of-conciousness blog on the 2006 XML Conference in Boston. ... read moreDecember 06 2006
Here's the continuation of my stream-of-consciousness blog on the 2006 XML Conference in Boston. The conference is running four concurrent tracks: Publishing, Enterprise, Web, and Hands-On. I'll be jumping around between different tracks and trying to give a quick summary... read moreDecember 05 2006
[Update: Bob DuCharme is also blogging here. And Robin Hastings. Some more stuff here by David Megginson. Simon did a summary, and here's my second day. Found another more voluminous blogging at Palimpsest] [Update2: A list of all the blogging... read moreDecember 05 2006
[Update: Bob DuCharme is also blogging here.] Here's my stream-of-consciousness blog on the 2006 XML Conference in Boston. The conference is running four concurrent tracks: Publishing, Enterprise, Web, and Hands-On. I'll be jumping around between different tracks and trying to... read moreNovember 29 2006
Two different stories this week highlight what's worked and what hasn't at the web's biggest standards body. Elliotte Rusty Harold's RELAX Wins has generated a stir about how much "W3C XML Schemas (XSD) suck," according to Tim Bray. On a... read more
