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The recent Extreme Markup Languages conference had it all. Liora Alschuler was there and reports back on the Topic Maps and RDF head-to-head.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/2000/01/26/feature/index2.html"> <h4>Schema Repositories: What's at Stake? Part II</h4></a><div>Key to the success of repositories are a common framework for business messages and interoperable schemas. How are XML.org and BizTalk affected by these, and what is prompting companies to invest large sums of money in the repository projects?</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/2000/07/05/specs/problems.html"> <h4>Last Word on Last Call - The Specification's Problems</h4></a><div></div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip030202.html"> <h4>Hynet Relaunches Directive</h4></a><div>Directive is a tool for managing long documents at the component level, primarily for the purpose of publishing them in different formats.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip030201.html"> <h4>Chrystal Embraces FrameMaker with Canterbury</h4></a><div>Canterbury takes the core Astoria engine, which runs on the Object Design database, and adapts it to FrameMaker.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ipx981104.html"> <h4>Softquad buys Softquad</h4></a><div>Softquad International sells HTML/XML business to employees and a private investor.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip030301.html"> <h4>W3C completes DOM specification</h4></a><div>Last month the W3C released a recommendation for the Document Object Model Level 1, a key component of the XML family of standards.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ipx980607.html"> <h4>Infrastructures for Information/Grif</h4></a><div>Review of i4i S4 and Grif SGML Editor</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ipx980602.html"> <h4>Excosoft Documentor</h4></a><div>Review of Excosoft Documentor</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ipx980606.html"> <h4>Vervet Logic's XML Pro</h4></a><div>Review of XML Pro</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ipx980605.html"> <h4>TimeLux's EditTime</h4></a><div>Review of EditTime</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ipx980604.html"> <h4>Stilo's SGML Editor</h4></a><div>Review of WebWriter</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ipx980603.html"> <h4>The XML Scoop on Office 9</h4></a><div>First look at the Office 9 and its support of HTML and XML</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ipx980601.html"> <h4>Seybold Looks at XML Editors</h4></a><div>List of links to coverage and vendor sites</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ipx9806.html"> <h4>Reviewing Structured Editors - Part Deux</h4></a><div>Follow up coverage on structured editors with empasis on products shown at SGML/XML Europe in May.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip031101.html"> <h4>XMetaL: XML Word Processing Comes into Focus</h4></a><div>SoftQuad's XMetaL is an attempt to offer developers and integrators a word processing solution for XML documents. How well does it fit that role?</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/2000/01/26/feature/index3.html"> <h4>Sidebar-The Microsoft Effect</h4></a><div>For better or worse, by dint of their unique position in the industry, Microsoft's actions carry more weight than those of other software companies.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/2000/01/26/feature/index.html"> <h4>Schema Repositories: What's at Stake?</h4></a><div>Why exactly are schema repositories useful? How do Microsoft's BizTalk and OASIS's XML.org compare, and are they both missing the point?</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/2000/07/05/specs/lastword.html"> <h4>Last Word on Last Call</h4></a><div>The W3C's XML Schemas specification has just exited its Last Call phase, drawing many comments in the process. Everyone agrees on the urgency of this work, yet opinion is widely divided over the current draft. Liora Alschuler investigates.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/2000/06/xmleurope/maps.html"> <h4>Topic Maps</h4></a><div>Topic maps have made a big splash at XML Europe this year, with fourteen presentations and two tutorials. Find out what they are, who's behind them, and why they matter.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/2000/05/10/standards/index.html"> <h4>Setting the Standard</h4></a><div>We all know standards are important for XML, but what about the people who make them? Liora Alschuler investigates the options for processes, structure, and financial support in standards-setting organizations.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/2000/03/08/xmetal/index.html"> <h4>A Sneak Preview of XMetaL 2.0</h4></a><div>Last week at XTech 2000, SoftQuad demonstrated a preview of the next release of their XMetaL XML editor. Liora Alschuler reports on what to expect in XMetaL 2.0.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip03042f.html"> <h4>The market is the question</h4></a><div>So what is the market for these XML editors?</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip03042e.html"> <h4>Stucture within formatted pages: FrameMaker and Interleaf</h4></a><div>Two long time rivals in page composition get the XML religion.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip03042d.html"> <h4>Seeking Refuge: Documentor and EditTime</h4></a><div>Two European stalwarts try to crack the US market.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip03042c.html"> <h4>Arbortext鈥檚 EPIC Work</h4></a><div>EPIC combines Structured editing with sophisticated content management.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip03042b.html"> <h4>XMetaL: Wouldn鈥檛 it be loverly?</h4></a><div>A structured editor with a word processing GUI.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/98/10/xmlgroups.html"> <h4>XML Working Group Reorganized</h4></a><div>The W3C has completed a reorganization of the XML working group.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/98/08/devdays.html"> <h4>Developers Driving XML in Montreal</h4></a><div>The XML Developers Conference in Montreal, convened by XML WG Chair Jon Bosak and sponsored by the GCA, was a great opportunity to cover the many fronts of XML development.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip020907.html"> <h4>Structured Editors: Conclusion</h4></a><div>If these products are indeed viable, it is possible that within a year we may at last see real, new alternatives for writing structured documents that work in print and as richly linked hypertext.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip020906.html"> <h4>Support for XML in mainstream products</h4></a><div>Another indication of change in the editorial marketplace is support for XML from mainstream editing vendors.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip020905.html"> <h4>Interleaf prepares BladeRunner</h4></a><div>BladeRunner is the code name of the Interleaf XML product that is in development and was shown for the first time at XML '98.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip020904.html"> <h4>SoftQuad previews XMetaL prototype</h4></a><div>While not yet solid code, SoftQuad's XMetaL represents a solid decision to pursue XML editing by the company best known for its HTML editor, HoTMetaL, and first known for its SGML editor, Author/Editor.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip020903.html"> <h4>XED: an editor for those who love the keyboard</h4></a><div>Stretching the continuum of XML editors toward simplicity, XED is an editor for fast keyboarding of well-formed XML in a lightweight, cost-free tool.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip020902.html"> <h4>Xerox sets its sights on distributed authoring</h4></a><div>Xerox's Raven is a prototype of an XML editor developed as a research project within one of Xerox's technical publications departments.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip020901.html"> <h4>Hot on the trail</h4></a><div>Four products for writing structured documents which were announced at XML '98.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip0209.html"> <h4>Structured Editors</h4></a><div>Will XML make structured editing any more mainstream than it was with SGML? A trip to the XML '98 Conference in Seattle, WA, uncovered four new products and shed light on where this market is headed.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip020528.html"> <h4>Perspecta takes fresh approach to using XML metadata to navigate content</h4></a><div>Perspecta, a San Francisco start-up selling technology first developed at the MIT Media Lab, has added XML support to the company鈥檚 SmartContent System, a platform for managing and navigating large information repositories.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/bul032601.html"> <h4>Netscape Puts XML Support in Mozilla</h4></a><div>On March 30, Netscape Communications released on its Web site the source code for Mozilla, which, in days past, would have been known as Communicator 5.0.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/1999/03/xtech/odi.html"> <h4>Object Design Ships eXcelon</h4></a><div></div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/1999/03/xtech/ibmatxtech.html"> <h4>New XML Tools on IBM Alphaworks Site</h4></a><div>IBM has extended its support for XML by posting a free XML data editor called Xeena on its alphaworks Web site.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/1999/03/xtech/arbortext.html"> <h4>Arbortext Goes Freeform</h4></a><div>The next release of Arbortext Adept Editor will ship with the capacity to edit and display DTD-less and stylesheet-less XML documents.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/1999/03/xtech/xslprize.html"> <h4>Sun, Adobe Post $90,000 Prize for XSL Implementation</h4></a><div>Frustrated with the slow pace of application development for rendering XML content, Sun Microsystems and Adobe are offering $90,000 in grants to individuals or corporations who can deliver applications to jumpstart XSL.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/1999/03/xtech/xtech99.html"> <h4>XTech '99: Momentum Builds in the IT Sector</h4></a><div>This year, at both Xtech and Seybold Seminars, the browser implementations were overshadowed by XML adoption by other heavyweights in the computer industry.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip031104.html"> <h4>How Hot is this Metal?</h4></a><div>A summary of the strengths and weaknesses of XMetaL.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip031103.html"> <h4>A Stickler for Rules</h4></a><div>XMetaL insists that you follow its rules; it doesn't allow you to edit documents without a DTD.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip031102.html"> <h4>A Tour of XMetaL</h4></a><div>A tour of the basic features of XMetaL and its interface.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip03042a.html"> <h4>Editors at XML '98</h4></a><div>A review of the latest changes in the market for structured editing tools.</div> </article> <hr> <article class="article"><a href="/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ipx981201.html"> <h4>Wrapping Up 1998</h4></a><div>As the year draws to a close, the XML.com editorial staff reviews recent progress--and lack of progress--in XML technology. </div> </article> <hr> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <aside id="sidebar" class="medium-3 columns hide-for-print text-right"> <div class="text-center">  <div id="div-gpt-ad-1550450394815-0"> <script> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1550450394815-0'); }); </script> </div> </div> <div class="text-center">  <div id="div-gpt-ad-1550513522284-0" style="height:250px; width:300px;"> <script> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1550513522284-0'); }); </script> </div> </div> </aside> </div> <div class="row column"> <hr class="dotted"> </div> <footer class="row column"> <p>Content licensed from and 漏 1998 - 2008 O'Reilly Media, Inc.</p> </footer><script src="https://pubgen.com/pubxml.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="/static/CACHE/js/782ec6c34367.js"></script></body> </html>

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