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Survey of XML API's and techniques

"A Survey of APIs and Techniques for Processing XML." By Dare Obasanjo. From XML.com (July 09, 2003). In recent times the landscape of APIs and techniques for processing XML has been reinvented as developers and designers learn from their experiences and some past mistakes. This article provides an overview of the current landscape of techniques for processing XML and runs the gamut from discussing old mainstays, such as push model APIs and tree model APIs as exemplified by SAX and DOM, to newer participants in the XML world such as cursor APIs and pull model parsers. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/07/09/xmlapis.html

http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#ObasanjoAPI

[Cover Pages Newsletter]

CVS+RSS+ENT = clever source monitoring

Machine Blogging: Programmers sought for project: CVS to weblog/RSS, and back..

CVS as Blogger. Bill Lazar seeks programmers interested in bootstrapping a new system. Improve project communication by having your codebase blog.

Yes, blog.

You're all busy doing your own thing, coding here, checking stuff in there, testing this, trying that. Common point of reality? The code. Keeper of the reality? Your configuration management system.

Bill's solution: Wrap common events in plain english and post them to a weblog. Syndicate the results if you like. Add your project CVS to your blogroll. Comment on your CVS's posts in your own blog.

Wanted: Programmers and QA folks interested in making a tool that will extend the five most popular code management systems with a blogging interface. Contact Product Manager Bill. Bill is an alum of both Sun and Pyra, has a Rutgers MBA, and is polishing his C# in his spare time.

p.s. Bill pays attention to movies in the works. Very cool. He's interested in syndicating this content while preserving its structure. Any suggestions?

[a klog apart]

A great idea for a development shop which I have advocated before.

An even better idea would be using ENT 1.0 tags to attach topics to each of these automated posts representing the project, module, and user the CVS comments are related to.

This would allow a clever aggregator (like, say, W4) to build smart interfaces out of the data allowing you to browse changes for each project or module, related modules or changes made by the same author in different modules.

I'm sure there are more things you could do with this besides.

Finally a reason for FOAF

Technorati talks FOAF.

Technorati reads the FOAF file from your blog and creates a profile. Your picture from your FOAF file and a link to your profile shows up when you appear in people's cosmos listings. A good reason to get a FOAF file. TypePad has FOAF built in. If you want to build a FOAF file, you can go to this foaf-a-matic site (thanks for the link Sifry) and make a FOAF file. Put the FOAF file on a server and point to in from your blog with a link tag like this:

FOAF stands for "Friend of a Friend" and it is a project to create a machine readable format for putting information about yourself and your friends on web pages.

Here's Marc Canter's profile

By Joichi Ito jito@neoteny.com. [Joi Ito's Web]

Finally a reason to create a FOAF profile.  Indeed after going through the FOAF-a-MATIC and saving the file I realise I already did this a while ago but never bothered to publish the file.

My FOAF profile is now here and joined up via the <link/> tag.

A new blogging tool

Zoq 1.0 features. These are Zoq's 1.0 planned features. I hope I didn't forget of any important one. writing/editing/deleting posts (who would expect) comments on your posts pings weblogs.com sending and receiving trackback drafts archives by month and category one click posting ent enabled rss feeds full text search creating new weblogs clean and nice urls inviting writers to colaborate on your blog changing your design different levels of editing permissions chosing from different design templates creating your own template sending images to use on your posts thumbnail generation [Daily Bytes]

Will this be a next generation blogging tool?  I wonder what it's written in.

My aggregator would make a poor diary

Publish to the future. Norman Walsh (via Bubba):

I have a possibly odd RSS application: I use RSS to keep track of my schedule. I have an “RSS feed” that shows me my todo items, upcoming calendar events, and some other stuff.

I have a feeling that using RSS for this is either a really clever idea or a really stupid one, but I'm not sure which. Anyway, it's working for me. It means that everytime I peek at my RSS viewer, I see my schedule.

I lean towards the former. This sounds brilliant. I use RemindMe to remember the important events to come. Right now it sends me emails. Wouldn't it be great if it could provide an RSS feed that features the important events of a day, on the day before they happen?

[Seb's Open Research]

I don't know what aggregator you are using, but for me, the answer would be NO!!

Oh sure, having a reminder in there would be fine but, subscribed to 100+ feeds, it would be just too easy for important reminders to get lost in the chaff.

I'd much rather have my PIM with multiple audible alerts.

Now if my PIM could read event details from an RSS feed, that would be a different matter...

Paging Mr Clue

Voda says sorry for sending horrid letter to low-rents. 'Poorly written and quite threatening' [The Register]

Paging Mr Clue...  paging Mr Clue....