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Micah Dubinko served as an editor and author of the XForms 1.0 W3C specification. Micah is the author of XForms Essentials, and is available for consulting.

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XML News & Commentary

When SOEs encourage a responsibility-avoiding fantasy...

By Rick Jelliffe
February 9, 2010

From The Economist an article dealing with general fragmentation of technology in financial firms, and the issue of people needing to use ad hoc desktop applications comes up: a manager says 'The big task of management is to manage down the number of spreadsheets'.

What is the difference between a Taxonomy and an Ontology? - OWL Knowledge

By Rick Jelliffe
February 8, 2010

Q. What is the difference between a Taxonomy and an Ontology? A. Not much.

Three quarters of a million patent applications outstanding! - A golden age of invention!

By Rick Jelliffe
February 8, 2010

What a wonderful age we live in! An age where almost a quarter of a million non-obvious ideas without prior art are invented every year.

XPath needs virtual axes - Making XPath more XPathy?

By Rick Jelliffe
February 7, 2010

XPath is a family of small query languages for XML: they have a simple data model and syntactically were based on directory paths: so to find the attribute id of the parent of a chapter element which has a title...

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Introduction to XML

In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of XML for use with XML-enabled applications or general web use. This course is an introduction to XML that prepares students with a foundation in one of the key elements of web programming. Upon completion of the course, students will earn 4 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) and a CEU letter from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education.

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