X pointer would benefit from offering the option of developed modest feature set, many vendors involved in developing X pointer. Though many tried nobody has set the goal of speed implementation the single complete implementation of x pointer took about two weeks and four known external implementations of FIXptr proposal each took about half a day compared to the process of x pointer implementations getting four implementations to try the proposal on a casual basis was so easy and with this no users of x pointer would lose anything, many
The XML dev mailing list has been discussing the licensing terms for the patent Since Elliote Rusty Harold made a recommendation of the rejection of the specification. Danielle Veillard, the chair of Xpointer meetings, mentioned that it would be fruitless to chase them all since no progress would be made. However he was sympathetic to the patent itself.An analysis of the situation was made by Tim Bray. He described it as a big problem and made a suggestion that it would be more responsible for the sun to make a declaration that the patent had
Abstract
Lark is a non-validating XML processor implemented in the Java language; it attempts to achieve good trade-offs among compactness, completeness, and performance. Larval is a validating XML processor built on the same code base as Lark. This report gives an overview of the motivations for, facilities offered by, and usage of, the Lark processor.
This document and the Lark software are copyright © 1997 by Tim Bray; all rights reserved. However, Lark is available on the Internet for general public use.
This note applies to the final beta
Since Elliotte Rusty Harold recommended "complete rejection of this specification until such time as Sun's patent can be dealt with more reasonably," the XML-dev mailing list has been discussing the licensing terms for the patent.
Daniel Veillard, who chaired XPointer meetings on the subject, noted that "We can't chase them all and if we did we would make no progress every effort would be wasted doing those Patent lookups and fighting them :-(((," though he clearly had little sympathy for the patent itself.
Tim Bray described the situation as "a
Introduction:
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. APIs such as DOM and SAX, which used to be the bread and butter of XML APIs, are giving way to new models of examining and processing XML. Although some of these techniques have become widespread among developers who primarily work with XML, they are still unknown to most developers. Nothing highlights this better than a recent article by Tim Bray, one of the