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More Questons Surround Microsoft’s OOXML Format - Wired Blogs
More Questons Surround Microsoft’s OOXML FormatWired Blogs - 13 hours agoThe controversial Office Open XML file format is already an Ecma standard, but its pending approval as an ISO standard is drawing a great deal of criticism. …The Contradictory Nature of OOXML Slashdotall 2 news articles
World Wide Web Consortium Selects AgileDelta’s Efficient XML as Basis for Global Web Standard Format Selected After … (SYS-CON Media)
AgileDelta(TM), Inc., the leading provider of software for lightning-fast delivery of more content to more locations, today announced that the company’s Efficient XML(TM) format was selected by the World Wide Web Consortium as the basis for the global binary XML standard. Efficient XML was selected based on a comprehensive, independent review of binary XML formats, comparing size, speed, and …
Review: Java and XML
James Pyles writes “Obviously using XML from Java applications is nothing new as the first two editions of this book attest. However numerous changes have occured which required a third edition of this book. From the Preface: “Quite a bit has changed since the second edition appeared. Specifications that were drafts have been finalized new APIs have been introduced and new uses for XML have emerged. Perhaps most significantly two APIs discussed in the second edition JDOM and JAXB saw important changes…”. Having established the necessity for a third edition lebt’s see what it’s got under the hood. While the book advertises itself as appropriate for the extreme XML newbie Java experience is required of the audience. I can accept that the book is written for the intermediate to advanced programmer but if you can pick up this book and become competant using XML in what the authors call “a crash course” in the first two chapters you’re good. Wisely page 1 includes a list of O’Reilly books on XML and XSLT that cover that territory in much more detail. My recommendation would be for the Java programmer to pick up a copy of XML in a Nutshell and Learning XML before tackling Java & XML. It’ll put you on more solid ground if you are completely unfamiliar with XML.”