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PapersI have been playing around in SGML/XML for a fair number of years
now, so most of these papers are related to that kind of technology.
Note that many of these papers were only written
for internal consumption, so I've cleaned them up a bit before
releasing them. List of papers- Core Range Algebra -
Personal,
Online article,
3/9/2002
- This is an algebra from ranges over sequences that is aimed at providing
the basis for a formal model of markup. This is based on ideas I had regarding query
languages and XML when I was in the DOM working group.
Some additional links:
(PDF Version)
- Core Range Algebra -
Idealliance,
Extreme Markup 2002 Conference Proceedings,
3/9/2002
- This is a paper presented at Extreme Markup 2002, in Montreal. It
introduces an algebra from ranges over sequences that is aimed at providing
the basis for a formal model of markup.
- Attributed Range Algebra -
Personal,
Online article,
7/11/2002
- This is a paper that presents an extension of Core
Range Algebra in order to make it more suitable for modelling
arbitrary data streams.
Some additional links:
(PDF Version)
- XTND - XML Transition Network Definition -
W3C,
W3C Technical Note,
11/21/2000
- This was a submission to the W3C defining a format
for marking up transition network diagrams - essentially state
machines with side effects. This was used as the basis for
workflow definitions by a few people, including in the content
management system Engenda which I designed. The approach to
defining processes is entirely generic however.
Some additional links:
(Local Link)
(BPML - Somewhat similar)
(WFMC - WorkFlow Management Coalition)
(WSFL - Web Services Flow Language)
- XEXPR - A Scripting Language for XML -
W3C,
W3C Technical Note,
11/21/2000
- This was a submission to the W3C defining a format
for marking up fairly simple scripts in XML. The primary intent
here was to provide a clean way to do scripting in a manner that
is approachable using formal analysis techniques, on one hand,
and to provide a language easily bound into most runtime
environments. This was used in a few places, one being in XTND.
Some additional links:
(Local Link)
- Platform Independent UI Objects -
eBT,
Internal whitepaper,
11/10/1998
- This paper introduces the concept of "XSL Beans": a
notion of using XML and XSL together to produce platform
independent UI objects. Many of the ideas here were inspired by
earlier work on PIGUI, InterViews, Fresco, and on an S-expression
based system providing many of the same capabilities.
Some additional links:
(Adobe PDF Version)
- UI Development Using XSL Beans -
eBT,
Internal whitepaper,
11/10/1998
- This paper is a companion to "Platform Independent UI
Objects" and explains some approaches to developing UI's using XSL Beans.
Some additional links:
(Adobe PDF Version)
- Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification -
W3C,
W3C Recommendation,
10/1/1998
- The DOM specification was an awful lot of work, and
taught me a lot about the standards process. Overall, the DOM
represents a tremendous compromise on almost every front, but it
has stood the test of time. I did a lot of work on core, first by
proposing a subset of the SGML property set, which I turned into
IDL, and I defined the original DTD, and the CoST scripts for the
specification, which was a cool form of literate programming.
- A Proposal for XSL -
W3C,
W3C Technical Note,
8/27/1997
- This was a submission to the W3C for what eventually
became XSL/XSLT. The most interesting there here was the use of
"match by example" match expressions, rather than XPath. In many
ways, this still seems like a viable approach (at the time I was
against it ;-)) but apparently people found it hard to deal with.
- Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language -
IETF,
IETF RFC Archive - Standards Track,
1/1/1997
- This was a proposal for fixing HTML by adding I18N
capabilities: most of this got rolled into HTML 4.0.It's kind of
funny that the problems with forms still exists...
- The Multilingual WWW -
EBT,
Online Article,
1/4/1995
- This paper is one I wrote in late 1994, and released in
early 1995, which detailed many of the problems with, and a vision
for, I18N on the WWW. Many suggestions got wrapped into
SGML/HTML/XML, though even now, some things are
broken.
Some additional links:
(Adobe PDF Version)
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