http://people.w3.org/~liam/blog Pointy brackets can hurt your feet. Fri, 08 May 2009 16:05:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I realised that I wasn't motivated enough to keep writing here, partly because not enough people are watching... which in turn is partly because the writing is all too dry and professional.  So I started another blog, barefootliam.org, where I feel more comfortable writing about a wider range of topics.viagra free ... http://people.w3.org/~liam/blog/?p=10 I spent some time recently thinking about RDF and the Semantic Web, and about ontologies, and about XML and topic maps and XML schema languages. The Semantic Web people are doing something (or trying to do something) more global than I recall from the original RDF meetings; they are trying to ... http://people.w3.org/~liam/blog/?p=8 I was recently asked, how widespread is the use of XML? I had to stop and think. It's almost as if someone asked me how widely used is air, or perhaps more fairly how many socks there are in the world. So here are some places where XML is used, ... http://people.w3.org/~liam/blog/?p=7 I'm sometimes asked when you should use attributes and when you should use elements when designing a new XML vocabulary. There are in fact no hard and fast answers for all situations, but there are some constraints and guidelines that may help. The attributes of any particular XML element are ... http://people.w3.org/~liam/blog/?p=6 Oh dear, this blogging thing doesn't happen all by itself, you have to remember it. I had originally wanted somewhere I could write about some of the philosophy and design issues of XML, but then I got intimidated, because people could see what I wrote. What if they read things ... http://people.w3.org/~liam/blog/?p=5 I wanted somewhere I could post without sounding too authoritative; my Advogato account isn't really focussed on XML and my personal page isn't bloggish. What is XML? I've recently held a number of Future of XML sessions at various conferences. I posted about it on my Advogato blog too. I ... http://people.w3.org/~liam/blog/?p=2