xmlhack:: Veillard Looks at XML from an Open Source Perspective

“While XML has benefited from free and open source tools since
its beginning, the open source and free software community has
taken a measured approach to XML. Daniel Veillard gave the
XML-centric crowd at XML Europe 2003 a look at XML from a different
perspective.

“Rather than looking at the tools created by and for the XML
community, Veillard stepped back and looked at what the broader
open source and free software communities have done with XML. While
some of this sounded like the familiar list of XML toolkits and
markup-oriented processing, much of it focused instead on how
different projects were using XML.

“Veillard pointed out that while there are some systems built
around the original notion of XML for Web publishing, most of the
projects he discussed focused on other XML capabilities. While
Veillard’s employer (RedHat) includes over 3600 XML files in its
Linux distribution, they serve a wide variety of purposes, largely
for configuration…”

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