As David Megginson gets ready to hand over the reins of SAX, the community-developed Simple API for XML, a successor must be found. The XML-Deviant investigates. Super Model 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. 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 . Investigating the Infoset XML's syntax was invented before its data model, but the XML Infoset specification is seeking to plug the gap and formalize the data model. The XML-Deviant examines what the Infoset is, and what people think of it so far. This week the XML Deviant dips into the SVG developer lists to find developers frustrated with the specification, which is still at Last Call status. The XML-DEV mailing list has seen a renewed vigor in discussion recently, with the spotlight being turned on the troubled issue of XML Schemas.