You might have seen the recent news reports about the collision between U.S. and Russian communication satellites. The U.S. satellite was one of the Iridium satellites. What wasn’t reported and you probably don’t know is that an object database management system (ODBMS) is an important part of the Iridium system. Even though ODBMSs are a [...]
February 13, 2009
I am now also posting on the Cutter Blog. My initial posting is (The Acronym) SOA is (Perhaps) Dead (at Some Companies); Long Live Services. It is a response to Anne Thomas Manes’ SOA is Dead; Long Live Services on her blog at the Burton Group.
January 9, 2009
The typical definition of an atomic task or process is one that cannot be decomposed further. This is vague and subject to interpretation. The Decomposition Matrix on this site uses a specific definition: A task (for business process diagrams) or a process (for data flow diagrams) is atomic if every input relates to every output [...]
December 3, 2008
My last posting referenced the criteria for a well-formed business process diagram mentioned in Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. I am going to expand on their criteria to create a more comprehensive definition of a well-formed business process diagram.
To start, here are three criteria from [...]
November 18, 2008
I recently received two new books on business process modeling. Both books looked interesting because they had great titles. As it turns out, one book is great and the other not so good.
The not so good book is Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. There are [...]
October 9, 2008
The Design Decomposition Blog is written by Doug Barry.
DocBook: XML/SGML vocabulary particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).
Organization: OASIS. More
information: DocBook
page on the OASIS website (new window).
PROSE/XML: XML specification intended to be a standardized method for publishers to communicate job specifications to commercial printers. In as far as it enforces certain formats for its data, and thereby standardizes the "look" of the data, the PROSE/XML specification rarely defines its content data values. It is left up to the trading partners, to determine the proper values for the content data transmitted via the PROSE/XML specification. Organization: IDEAlliance. More
information: PROSE/XML page on the
IDEAllance website (new window).
Shipment and Logistics Specification (S'nL): XML message specification for efficient communication among those providing delivery instructions, transportation planning, and distribution services for shipment of printed product. SnL is made up of a family of related specifications. These specifications include: shipment plan, shipment notification, print order message, and goods receipt message. Organization: IDEAlliance. More
information: S'nL page on the
IDEAllance website (new window).
XML Book Industry Transaction Standards (XBITS): XBITS is a Working Group of IDEAlliance and a Book Industry Study Group (BISG)/ Book Industry Standards and Communcations (BISAC) publisher and manufacturer committee that is designing standard XML transactions to facilitate bi-directional electronic data exchanges between publishers, printers, paper mills, and component vendors using papiNet as a basis. Organization: IDEAlliance. More
information: XBITS page on the
IDEAllance website (new window).
There are nearly 400 pages of articles on this site with over 100 pages on XML background, specifications, and vocabularies.
Search this site for more articles
Custom Search
Browse this site for more articles
Click on the topics below to browse the articles on this site. You can see more detail by clicking on the arrows. This highlights the location of the current
article: Publishing XML.
Of Sacred and Secular Austin American-Statesman (blog) If you use an RSS reader, here is feed for Of Sacred and Secular: XML. By Joshunda Sanders | Thursday, July 29, 2010, 12:22 PM In the sticky, crowded hangar ... and more » 29 Jul 2010 at 12:32pm
The Rise of the Web CMS Folio Magazine Though FOLIO:'s recent survey on manufacturing and production trends showed that less than a quarter of the industry used an XML workflow in 2009, ... 29 Jul 2010 at 2:51pm
Advent of New Devices Shakes Up Production Folio Magazine The advent of XML is neutralizing content and putting it in a form to use for print and digital.” Any time you're considering assets and content management ... 29 Jul 2010 at 2:02pm
Beginning XML, 4th Edition (Programmer to Programmer) by David Hunter, Jeff Rafter, Joe Fawcett, Eric van der Vlist, Danny Ayers, Jon Duckett, Andrew Watt, Linda McKinnon Average Customer Review: based on 58 reviews. Customer Review: This is the best comprehensive introduction to XML (XML, namespaces, schemas, XSL and styles, XML in databases, XML web services, and more). I checked over 10 similar books, but this one surpass the value of any of them. But be aware that this book is an introduction (Well, maybe more than an introduction). It will be necessary othe...
XML in a Nutshell, Third Edition by Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means Average Customer Review: based on 17 reviews. Customer Review: This book is by far the best book I've read on XML. Typical of O'Reilly "In a Nutshell" books, the converage of XML is fast paced and complete. Your money will be well spent on this book. I even think most beginners will do well with this one!
Learning XML, Second Edition by Erik T. Ray Average Customer Review: based on 38 reviews. Customer Review: I am amplifying a prior review (Daniel McKinnon's) in order to balance a misperception as to the intent and execution of the book. This is not XSLT or XPath or "DOM processing in Firefox" or "node traversals with Java", it's an introduction to XML. If you need a solid foundation upon which to base further study, I wholly recommend t...
based on 58 reviews.
based on 17 reviews.
