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 tbray@t... (Tim Bray) writes: >The biggest splash of course was the Microsoft stuff (not just Office >- I remember Chris Lilley hunched over a screen in the MS booth >genially ignoring the crowd and staff, running Visio through the SVG >test suite). The Office stuff was genuinely impressive. It's the first update to Word that I'm looking forward to since 5.1/Mac, and the first update to Access that I'd like since 2.0/Win. I suspect that it's the biggest set of changes to Office since they first starting integrating the products, and the XML support should be a lot more flexible than scripting inside the programs or dealing with OLE/COM/ActiveX/etc. (W3C XML Schema is an important part of the Office story, but I haven't yet seen anything that gets in the way of using RELAX NG to generate WXS to mollify Office while still working in a friendlier world.) The OpenOffice work and the Universal Business Language keynote that Jon Bosak gave suggested that the drive for this kind of ubiquitous XML use isn't just from Microsoft, and I think it's pretty clear that all this activity should mean more work for people who grasp XML for a long time to come. (Users won't necessarily even know that they're using XML, if we do our work well.) > Baltimore failed to endear itself much as a place, it's Philly next > year. I was so happy that we weren't in Orlando that I didn't worry much about Baltimore. I did have some excellent food outside the mallish Inner Harbor zone. Philadelphia's always great, though. >Lots of: schema-languages, topic maps, databases, Web Services. Also lots of Town Halls. I was too hungry/busy to attend a lot of them, but the Hypertext Town Hall went really well, I thought, despite direct competition with an XML and Databases Town Hall and a large Microsoft Office demo. One of my favorites in the schema universe was Murata Makoto's J2ME RELAX NG validator for cell phones. There was some J2SE schema preprocessing involved, but making that work in such a confined space (22K, including schema, parser, and document if I remember right) was very impressive. > Not much of: graphics, RDF, publishing. RDF came up a lot of times in conversation. Gabe Beged-Dov had an interesting session on the difficulties of validating RDF with W3C XML Schema. While the nature of the problems kind of hurt, the paths toward solutions were interesting. Sun also published an open source XSL-FO processor, though I didn't get to see them. I wouldn't count any of those subjects out for the future, though they may not be this week's flavor. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org 
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