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Caching XML data at install time
The W3C web server is spending most of its time serving DTDs to various bits of XML processing software. While XSLT processors such as xsltproc and Xalan have no technical dependency on the XHTML DTDs, I suspect they're used with XHTML enough that shipping copies of the DTDs along with the XSLT processing software is a win all around.
- http
- uri
- xml
Build Your Own Browser
Little Web bricks help to create new browsers.
- browser
- html
- html5
- http
- libwww
- webkit
SVG, comics and E-books
SVG is a format that could be widely used on e-books for comics.
- ebook
- graphics
- svg
- xhtml
Make your Data Web Friendly
What does it mean to make your data Web friendly. A very simple introduction and a few links to explore and understand RDFa, a technology to easily create hyperlinked data.
- html
- html5
- metadata
- rdf
- rdfa
- semantic-web
HTML 5, a new step
HTML 5 conformance checking has been integrated into the beta W3C Markup Validator.
- conformance-checker
- html
- html5
- validation
- validator
The details of data in documents: GRDDL, profiles, and HTML5
GRDDL, a mechanism for putting RDF data in XML/XHTML documents, is specified mostly at the XPath data model level. Some GRDDL software goes beyond XML and supports HTML as she are spoke, aka tag soup. HTML 5 is intended to...
- grddl
- html
- html5
- semantic-web
- xhtml