The Evolution of XML Vocabularies

Some notes for an essay on how XML data formats and the systems publishing/consuming them have an efficient natural system of evolution that is being disrupted by the recent surge of religion on how things should be done on the web.

Dag vs. Fedora

June 16, 2004 7:53 AM | Ryan Tomayko | Under: Front«Notebook«The Evolution of XML Vocabularies

Dag runs an extensive repository of packages for RPM based GNU/Linux distributions. There is constantly strife between his self-run, low-process methods of maintaining a repository of packages and those of the Fedora.us people.

The Slashdot View on RSS/Atom

June 12, 2004 9:10 PM | Ryan Tomayko | Under: Front«Notebook«The Evolution of XML Vocabularies

The mean opinion on the Atom/RSS situation.

Elliotte Rusty Harold on xml-dev

June 11, 2004 1:10 AM | Updated: June 12, 2004 11:51 PM | Ryan Tomayko | Under: Front«Notebook«The Evolution of XML Vocabularies

Elliotte Rusty Harold pushes a an information model where XML data is very loosely defined—as in no schemas—between producers and consumers.