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Category Archives: XML

Good standards

A nice post on making standards by Dave McAlister of Adobe: Good Standards. I posted on the same topic last April, and what I said there still stands:
Contrast that with the process by which Adobe is submitting PDF to ISO. We’ve bent over backwards to ensure that the submission is as clean as it can [...]

OOXML and the Mac: More Bad News from Microsoft

Once upon a time, 5 months ago, I wrote a blog post with the title Is Office Open XML A One-Way Standard? Ask Microsoft. In it, I took Microsoft to task because OOXML was so difficult to implement, based on information in a blog posting by Rick Schaut where he explained why it was taking [...]

Nice analysis of XML vs JSON

There’s been a lot of back and forth between the XMLers and the JSON proponents of late. I thought this post by James Bennett to be particularly insightful.