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XTech 2008: “The Web on the Move” — 6-9 May 2008, Dublin, Ireland
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Liam Quin

W3C

Liam has been passionate about logical structured markup since the early 1980s; he encountered SGML in 1987, later worked for SoftQuad Inc. in the consulting department, and was involved in XML from its beginning.

Today Liam works for the World Wide Web Consortium as XML Activity lead, and in his spare time maintains a Web site of text and images from old books powered by XML and XML Query.

Sessions

11:00 Wednesday, 7 May 2008
XML@10: A Decade of XML
Data and databases Goldsmiths 3
Liam Quin (W3C)
XML was published as a W3C Recommendation in February, 1998, a little over ten years ago. It was a huge success. What made it do so well, and what can we learn from ithis? What were some of the milestones of XML history? And how are things looking for the future? Read more.