So I wanted to parse the feed I retrieved yesterday, and now I know a bit more about how the package system works, I just search NuGet and found SimpleFeedReader $ dnu install SimpleFeedReader At this point Visual Studio Code prompts me that it needs to run the restore command, so I click the butt...

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Were switching to XML a requirement for reaping compelling benefits, the public would indubitably have moved. So would the majority browser engine. So if the majority browser engine did support XML, this presumably brings us to the question of what would those compelling benefits to the public be? Aristo...

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So then, the Atom Syndication Format is a great standard for storing data but once you start getting a large number of entries (even if it’s only in the hundreds or thousands), does storing your data as an XML file start to become unwieldly? A small part of my brain starts to cry at the thought, so I’m going to guess “yes” but there mus...

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Ryan King says: See, one of the problems with XML-on-the-web are the dialects. See Tantek’s Tower of Babel Problem for more explanation. I know I might be sounding a bit ideal...

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Joshua Porter’s post A Glimpse of the Future: Joe Reger’s XML Schema Coolness, links to a screencast by Joe Reger which shows him going into the admin interface of his web-based blogging tool, uploading a new .xsd file and then being able to create a new blog...

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XUP is an attempt to replace static per-site user accounts, which most present dynamic web sites use in absence of an easy to use and open/shared user account system. It allows people to use a single account or profile with many sites, or one of their existing user profiles on multiple other web sites. T...

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OK, so in my last post I rather eloquently described my distaste for the neutrino.xml format. My problems with it are manifold. In no particular order: it’s yet another meta-format and yet another format to parse

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I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about microformats, wondering what they are, creating docs and writing code to deal with them, and my eventual conclusion is: I don’t get it. I quite genuinely don’t understand the point of microformats. Not only do I not unders...

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Does anyone out there know if there’s a standard way of denoting that an Atom entry has already been read? Maybe something like: <read>2005-04-26T16:25:17Z</read> as an optional element inside the <entry> element?

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I’m sure they mean well. But really. When you say something like attention.xml will be simple, minimalist, and easy to use and implement and your (fairly minimal) example looks like this: <...

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