As adoption of W3C XML Schema technology increases, the need for documenting best practices is becoming more important, not least where namespaces are concerned. The XML-Deviant investigates. By Leigh Dodds Growing interest in RDF is seeing renewed work to increase understanding of the specification, including a move to separate RDF's simple data model from its oft-maligned syntax. By Leigh Dodds RDF has some devoted followers, but is yet to hit the XML mainstream. Many believe this is because of its complicated syntax.
Some problems are due to success, some are growing pains, and some just refuse to go away.
XML has all of these, chronicled as ever by the XML-Deviant . This week XML-Deviant reports on the progress with XML Schemas, and an upcoming consolidation of the XML 1.0 errata into a second edition of the specification. Co-chair David Megginson used his keynote speech at XTech 2000 to focus on this issue. This week, XML-Deviant is in San Jose for the XTech 2000 conference. Next week XTech 2000 will begin in San Jose, California.