The following material has been written by Griffin Brown people and is available for download/browsing.
blog feed (RSS)Articles and Presentations on XML and related matters
Frozen streams: an experimental time- and space-efficient implementation for in-memory representation of XML documents using Java - An article discussing an experimental approach for storing XML in memory with the aim of making applications faster and less memory-hungry. This presentation was given at Extreme Markup Languages in Montréal, August 2006.
(231 KB, link to PDF from proceedings of Extreme Markup Langauges 2006).
(165 KB, PowerPoint Presentation).
Simple Triples: Quick Win Ontologies for Enterprise Data - A look at how triples (the basis of RDF) can be used as a basis for enterprise document management systems.
(2.6 MB, PowerPoint Presentation).
Writing your last DTD? - Best practice for DTD writing in a world heading for Schemas.
(40 KB, link to PDF from proceedings of XML 2004).
(56K, PowerPoint Presentation).
XML in Serial Publishing: Past, Present and Future -
This article tours those parts of the XML technology family, and those XML-related activities, that are of most relevance to journal
production. (33 KB, PDF).
Converting to XML: Implementation and Business Issues -
An overview of how a publishing company converting to XML faces conversion in three main areas: in its strategic outlook, in its workflows, and of its data. (105 KB, PDF).
An Introduction to Unicode's Role in XML -
Offers a 'ground up' explanation of how Unicode works with XML, attempts to untangle the mysteries of Unicode character encoding, and gives guidance for best practice use of Unicode in XML. (112 KB, PDF).
Modelling Paragraphs with XML -
A look at the surprisingly tricky problem of modelling paragraphs when designing an XML Schema or DTD. (74 KB, PDF).
Reviews
Book Review: HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide (5th edn). O'Reilly 2002. -
Now in its fifth edition, the book has seen many changes to web markup
standards since it was first published, most
significantly the emergence of XHTML ... (101 KB, PDF).
Book Review: XPath and XPointer. O'Reilly 2002. -
The greater part of this book deals with XPath 1.0, a mature member of the
XML family, about which John E. Simpson writes in the clear style familiar to
readers of his Q&A column at xml.com. (94 KB, PDF).
