W3C publishes plan for mixing XML markup languages (InfoWorld)

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Extreme Markup Languages 2004

Extreme Markup Languages 2004 01/01/2004 05:07 PM
Originally announced at XML 2003, the Call for Participation for Extreme Markup 2004 is now open. The conference will be held from 3-6 August in Montréal, Canada.

Extreme Markup Languages 2002 program
now available (extrememarkup.com)

Extreme Markup Languages 2002 program
now available (extrememarkup.com) 07/19/2002 03:49 PM

MyMatchmaker.Com Going Public -
Publishes Business Plan & Financial
Projections

MyMatchmaker.Com Going Public -
Publishes Business Plan & Financial
Projections 06/20/2004 03:39 AM
MyMatchmaker.Com has just published its business plan and financial projections on its website. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2004]

Mixing Linux

Mixing Linux 07/25/2004 01:11 AM
G4 Tech TV Jul 25 2004 5:08AM GMT

Mixing Metaphors

Mixing Metaphors 12/27/2002 06:32 PM
So I'm reading some official documentation about JDBC and I run across this bit of text (emphasis mine): The second major advantage is that the DataSource facility allows developers to implement a DataSource class to take advantage of features like...

How To Create Your Own Fad - Mixing
Bluetooth And Sex

How To Create Your Own Fad - Mixing
Bluetooth And Sex 04/19/2004 12:26 PM
Last month we saw the first article about the practice of "toothing" - using a Bluetooth-enabled phone to randomly, anonymously proposition people for sex on trains in the UK - and pointed out that it really sounded like a made-up fad by a few guys who really really wished it were true. They may be getting their wish. Following that first article, now Reuters has picked up on it and written their own article about the practice, which is sure to get plenty of press attention. This article, like the previous one, makes no effort to establish how widespread the practice really is (and how much of it is just in the minds of a bunch of horny commuters). Still, with this press coverage, it may become a self-fulfilling prophecy. So, all you need to do to create an overhyped fad is take some sort of communications technology, and figure out how to use it for sex. Then, you can anonymously tell the press about it, and they'll basically believe everything you say until the made-up fad sounds legitimate. Now, if they really wanted to get publicity, they should find a religious group that wants to ban Bluetooth because of this.

Mixing drinks the iPod way

Mixing drinks the iPod way 07/20/2004 02:47 PM

What can I say I think this article is cool I'm a geek after all. My Pocket PC already has a cocktail recipe database installed. This was done after my wife ordered me to make her some wild cocktail they drink in Japan. The database has made me pretty popular at parties and I am usually the duty bartender. Now it seems we will be able to jam to our favorite music and use the iPod to pull up cocktail recipes. [Engadget]

Budding DJs mixing on mobiles

Budding DJs mixing on mobiles 06/26/2004 08:28 PM
Festival-goers at Glastonbury 2004 have been getting a taste of making their own music with a new service launched by Orange.

Mixing business and pleasure-is it
really possible?

Mixing business and pleasure-is it
really possible? 12/03/2003 03:47 PM
ZDNet Dec 3 2003 2:58PM ET

Mixing and Mingling With Yahoo!

Mixing and Mingling With Yahoo! 03/19/2005 02:41 AM

Mixing and Matching, 2 New Palms Emerge

Mixing and Matching, 2 New Palms Emerge 04/28/2004 07:02 PM
Palm, the company who spawned the current age of palmtops and smart phones, has two new models out. Do they break new ground?

Network mixing PC and Mac doable, but
not so simple

Network mixing PC and Mac doable, but
not so simple 09/13/2004 06:18 PM
Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 13 2004 9:28PM GMT

Bill allows mixing of religion, politics

Bill allows mixing of religion, politics 06/07/2004 08:42 PM

Audio Mixing And Manipulation Project

Audio Mixing And Manipulation Project 01/11/2004 04:53 PM
Working towards 0.2

Ask MacSlash: Best Audio Mixing Software

Ask MacSlash: Best Audio Mixing Software 07/24/2004 05:44 PM

Mixing and matching on one's public page

Mixing and matching on one's public page 06/06/2005 12:13 AM

Though the stylesheet is still rather conservative, and the range of external modules still limited; take a look at my public page on Tribe.net (below.) Imagine this was your "About Me" page.

Notice that we're meshing in de.licio.us and RSS feeds, giving our end-users the ability to put up more than one 'desktop image' up into their interface and combining internal and external blogs.

We're also displaying different combinations of friends and groups - and in general - fulfilling the 'customization' requirement of DLAs.

This is what we all need - every DLA, portal, social network and blogging tool around. The ultimate "About Me" page. Now that Tribe has set the new standard, all other systems will be compared to this.

I especially like this approach as it allows one to add in additional modules - without fundamentally changing the UI.

Sure it looks allot like MyYahoo, and it could use three columns, and sure we'd like sexier stylesheets and Tribe still needs a better header - but that all will come with time. It's the ease of use and power quotient that I'm excited about right now.

It's taken years - but the Tribe team: Paul Martino, Brian Lawler, Chris Vale, Elliot Loh (among otehrs) - and the product marketing dudes - Chris Law and Gary Chao - have finally figured it out.

It's called product iteration - and it's what we did with VideoWorlks - for five years till we got Director - just right.

HTML Tip: Beware of Mixing Forms and
Fonts

HTML Tip: Beware of Mixing Forms and
Fonts 11/30/2002 12:30 AM
Net Mechanic Nov 29 2002 11:13PM ET

Mixing Google GMail and Yahoo Groups

Mixing Google GMail and Yahoo Groups 05/12/2004 11:09 PM
Search Engine Journal May 13 2004 3:18AM GMT

Kagi Media Presents Pro Tools Mixing
Site HardDiskLife.com

Kagi Media Presents Pro Tools Mixing
Site HardDiskLife.com 08/21/2004 03:05 PM
Kagi Media, producer of pioneering Pro Audio training products, is pleased to be hosting Grammy-winning engineer, mixer and producer Charles Dye's groundbreaking Pro Tools mixing column Hard Disk Life at HardDiskLife.com.

Weekend Movies: Mixing Oscar Talk with
Absurd Comedy

Weekend Movies: Mixing Oscar Talk with
Absurd Comedy 12/12/2003 07:45 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 12 2003 6:50PM ET

Primagraphics adds alpha blending and
cross mixing to Cobra quad-video windows
solution

Primagraphics adds alpha blending and
cross mixing to Cobra quad-video windows
solution 05/31/2004 02:07 PM
[PRWEB May 28, 2004]

Simple markup

Simple markup 03/11/2003 11:53 AM

Timothy Appnel: I have a new appreciation for the elegeance and simplicity of XML markup. Not that I didn't have one before its just grown the size of the Empire state building and illuminated in neon.

Obviously, I'm currently embarking on a similar mission, and share Tim's appreciation for XML.  My goals, however, are much lower than Tim's: I'm not trying to create a full markup language.  I'm applying 80/20 whenever I can: e.g., unordered lists are enough.  The times when full functionality is required, I'll  personally use full XHTML.

I'm currently looking into textile for inspiration.

Markup-TreeNode-1.1.0

Markup-TreeNode-1.1.0 11/12/2003 06:50 PM

Markup in titles in RSS?

Markup in titles in RSS? 12/13/2003 08:14 AM

The RSS 2.0 spec and its predecessors may not say clearly enough if you can or can't include markup in titles. But I don't think you should include markup in titles. Titles are like file names (not exactly of course). They are a happy medium between software and people. Both must be able to read them and make sense of them, in all contexts, and do so easily. While it seems reasonable that a description may contain markup, it also seems reasonable that a title should not. So, if I were writing a validator for RSS, and encountered markup in a title, I'd warn the author that many processors would not be happy about this and it would be safer to strip the markup from the title.

Disclaimer: Scripting News is a weblog, not a spec. If you interpret it as a spec you will be making a mistake. I think I've said this quite a few times, but a few people still treat it as if I were writing a spec here. Not so. And not fair.

A postscript. I went back to see what the spec actually says, and it turns out it's not really a problem with the spec, rather with my recollection of what the spec says. Scroll to elem ents of item. It says descriptions may contain entity-encoded HTML. It doesn't say that a title may. So if that's the biggest problem people can find with the spec (which many were flaming about when I wrote it, it's not like they offered any help, btw) then it's a pretty damned good spec if you ask me.

Markup-Tree-1.1.0

Markup-Tree-1.1.0 11/12/2003 06:50 PM

Q: Markup format?

Q: Markup format? 03/14/2005 05:10 PM

Q: Which markup format do you use when posting?

Both Textile and Markdown are installed and I flip between them. When I want to post a lot of code without hassle I'll use Markdown because it seems smarter about that kind of thing. Most of the time, however, I want to just write so I'll use Textile; I find that it's a quick and mildly-intuitive way to access the various classes in my stylesheet for the myriad of things I do within this little block of space. Each has a purpose, so each gets used. I rarely enter raw HTML, and when I do it's typically to get around something broken in either markup format.

Et toi?

This entry was in Textile, for those keeping score. It is much easier to enter p(ps). or p(note). rather than <p class="ps"> or <p class="note">.

Serenity through markup (ADTmag.com)

Serenity through markup (ADTmag.com) 10/02/2002 10:55 AM

W3C Markup Validator Upgraded

W3C Markup Validator Upgraded 05/06/2004 09:47 PM
2004-05-06: W3C is pleased to announce an upgrade to the W3C Markup Validation Service. The new release is easier to use and install. It features new documentation and navigation, and offers helpful explanations and recovery mechanisms instead of fatal errors. Managed by a team of volunteers and the W3C Quality Assurance Activity, and supported by a large community, this validator is the single most popular resource on the W3C Web site. Read the announcement. (News archive)

FML: Fiction Markup Language

FML: Fiction Markup Language 01/16/2004 11:33 AM

When is someone going to come up with Fiction Markup Language — an XML spec solely for annotating fiction? For example:

Take perhaps the greatest novel ever written: Ian Fleming's 1953 classic "Casino Royale." Let's break this down from a big chunk of text to make up something more usable.

Obviously, you could mark the chapters and section numbers, but let's go further into the actual content of the narrative. Begin by surrounding all spoken text with tags. For example:

Perhaps you can have another attribute for "target" to identify to whom he's speaking. Then I could do an XPath query to find everything James Bond said to Vesper Lynd in the entire book.

And how about locations? Surround passages with their physical location, like the casino floor, Bond's hotel room, etc. (where appropriate — wouldn't work in all situations). I could then use XPath to find all the unique locations in the book (this would be great for the globe-hopping James Bond novels).

Identify "action" passages and mark them. How about the death of a character? Mark them so I can immediately find out where Le Chiffre was killed and read how it happened.

Introductions of characters are another thing. Mark the first appearance of each character so if I can't remember who someone is, I can go back and find where they first appeared and who they are.

I'm reading Tom Clancy's "Politika" right now, and I can hardly keep track of everyone. It'd be handy to be able to print a "report" showing who everyone is. (A good ebook client implementation of this would know what page the reader was on and not report anything past that page as to not spoil anything.)

Maybe mark the beginning and ending of pages as they appeared in the original publication. And have some way for an expert to insert commentary about the text.

James Bond novels are one thing, but imagine if someone did this for, say, "War and Peace". It would be like Cliffs Notes embedded in the text of the book.

There's unexplored potential here. I can't be the first person to think of this. (And another question: is this just an attempt to completely suck the soul right out of fiction? Should we just leave it the hell alone?)

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Keep 'em separated: Layout and markup.

Keep 'em separated: Layout and markup. 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
So, my idea was to follow the nice development models that often exist at a platform level in UI architecture and apply them to the view components of a design pattern - particularly with an focus on extensibility. But I...

MRL (Markup Recipe Language)

MRL (Markup Recipe Language) 01/25/2004 08:35 PM
Web site updated

A myriad of markup systems

A myriad of markup systems 04/12/2004 11:15 PM

It's hard to avoid the legions of custom markup systems out there these days. Every Wiki has it's own syntactical quirks, while packages like Markdown, Textile, BBCode (in dozens of variants), reStructuredText offer easy ways of hooking markup conversion in to existing applications. When it comes to being totally over-implemented and infuratingly inconsistent, markup systems are rapidly catching up with template packages. Never one to miss out on an opportunity to reinvent the wheel, I've worked on several of each ;)

My most recent markup handling attempt has just been published as part of my SitePoint article on Bookmarklets (cl iché). It's a structured markup language in a bookmarklet: activate the bookmarklet to convert the text in any textarea on a page to XHTML. The syntax is ridiculously simple, and serves my limited needs just fine:

= This is a header

Here is a paragraph.

* This is a list of items
* Another item in the list

Converts to:

<h4>This is a header</h4>

<p>Here is a paragraph.</p>

<ul>
 <li>This is a list of items</li>
 <li>Another item in the list</li>
</ul>

The algorithm is simple, and easily portable to any language you care to mention:

1. Normalise newlines to \n, for cross-platform consistency.
2. Split the text up on double newlines, to create a list of blocks.
3. For each block:
   1. If it starts with an equals sign, wrap it in header tags.
   2. If it starts with an asterisk, split it in to lines, make each a list item (stripping off the asterisk at the start of the line if required) and glue them all together inside a <ul>.
   3. Otherwise, wrap it in a <p> tag provided it doesn't have one already.
4. Glue everything back together again with a couple of newlines, to make the underlying XHTML look pretty.

The bookmarklet comes in two flavours: Expand HTML Shorthand (the full version) and Expand HTML Shorthand IE, which loses header support in order to fit within IE's rippling 508 character limit. A more capable bookmarklet could be built using the import-script-stub method described in my article, but the implementation of such a thing is left as an exercise for the reader (I've always wanted to say that).

Incidentally, there's a very common bug in markup systems that allow inline styles that proves extremely difficult to fix: that of improperly nested tags. Say you have a system where *text* is bold and _text_ is italic; what happens when the user enters _italic*italic-bold_bold*? Most systems (and that includes Markdown, Textile and my home-rolled Python solution) use naive regular expressions for inline markup processing and will output vadly formed XHTML: <em>italic<strong>italic-bold</em>bold </strong>. To truly solve this problem requires a context-sensitive parser, which involves an unpleasantly large amount of effort to solve what looks like a simple bug.

"Other Languages "

"Other Languages " 03/29/2005 11:43 PM

"Other Languages "

"Other Languages " 04/08/2005 02:50 PM

No lines of markup were harmed during
this process

No lines of markup were harmed during
this process 01/08/2004 08:37 PM
Yeah, new year, new looks, and the best part: Apart from inserting one single span on every page, no lines...

PHP Template Markup Language (ztml)

PHP Template Markup Language (ztml) 05/08/2004 10:36 AM
First alpha version released

Requirements for the Ink Markup Language
Published

Requirements for the Ink Markup Language
Published 01/22/2003 02:35 PM
22 January 2003: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released Requirements for the Ink Markup Language as a W3C Note. This data format represents ink entered with an electronic pen or stylus, and is used to input and process handwriting, gestures, sketches, music and other notational languages. Read about the Multimodal Interaction Activity. (News archive)

Enhancing Structural Markup with
JavaScript

Enhancing Structural Markup with
JavaScript 12/10/2003 09:07 PM
WebmasterBase Dec 10 2003 7:52PM ET

Features: Extreme Markup 2004

Features: Extreme Markup 2004 09/15/2004 07:42 PM
James Mason files a brief recap of this year's Extreme Markup Languages conference.
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W3C publishes plan for mixing XML markup languages (InfoWorld)