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XForms and RESTful Web Services
August 22 2008
There was one thing missing from XForms 1.0 that would have made all the difference when trying to access RESTful Web Services - the ability to control HTTP headers when making instance data requests and submissions. What compounded the problem was that many of the implementations either inappropriately (in my… read moreXForms and RESTful Web Services
August 19 2008
There was one thing missing from XForms 1.0 that would have made all the difference when trying to access RESTful Web Services - the ability to control HTTP headers when making instance data requests and submissions. What compounded the problem was that many of the implementations either inappropriately (in my… read moreIs arbitrary XML on the web ever going to happen?
July 02 2008
Search engine indexers are aware of (X)HTML and know what to look for when indexing those documents, but if the indexers were tuned to look for RDFa and WAI-ARIA Roles, would the semantics of the document be quite so important? If arbitrary XML on the web is ever going to… read moreJune 04 2008
My previous post 'XSLT and Binary File Formats', brought-up the subject of the sequence in XSLT 2.0 and how it can be used to build a byte sequence for a binary file format like a TIFF image. For the XSLT... read moreJune 04 2008
With all the recent talk of angle bracket taxes and what XML is and isn't good for, I thought it would be fun to look at taking XSLT to places where it is not normally associated - the generation of... read more