Keynoting XML 2007

This week I gave the closing keynote at XML 2007 in Boston.

The opening keynote had a three-person panel debating the question, Does XML have a future on the Web? I decided with the closing keynote to bookend that topic and answer the question with a talk titled You're Darn Right XML Has a Future on the Web, using MarkMail and its XML-centric model as supporting evidence. I've posted the talk's slides as an interactive Flash file. Click to advance.


During the rest of the week I was handing out "list:xml-dev" T-shirts, just like we had for ApacheCon but with a new list community.

My favorite quote was from Jon Bosak (often called the father of XML) who, upon receiving his T-shirt and learning how MarkMail was built on XML, said to me: This is cool on so many levels.

After Apache: XML

As anyone who's read the MarkMail FAQ knows, the site runs almost completely on XML. So it seemed fitting and proper that, after launching with the Apache Software Foundation mail archives, we should next load the lists from the XML community.

Here are the XML-related lists we've loaded so far:

• xml-dev (the classic XML list, where SAX was developed)
• JDOM (just in time for JDOM 1.1)
• XOM (a competitor to JDOM)
  
• xsl-list (for XSLT discussion)
  
• xquery-talk (for XQuery discussion)
• xmlschema-dev (for XML Schema discussion)
  
• MarkLogic General (for MarkLogic Server discussion)