Five Years On

“The time has come, the walrus said” - not to talk of cabbages and kings, nor even of sealing wax, but to move on and let someone else with fresh ideas take over chairing the XML Conference Series. XML 2001 was the first conference I chaired, XML 2005 the last. It’s been an interesting [...]

It’s Proceedings Time!

As usual for this time of year, the XML 2005 Conference is moving into the next level of preparation. There are quite a few sponsors signed up already (Sun Microsystems, RenderX, Justsystem, IBM, and DesignScience), the deadline for late-breaking and product presentations and town hall submissions is in 28 days (!!) and today we [...]

Picking Papers

We just finished the XML 2005 Planning Committee Selection Meeting, three days at the end of last week. This is one of the fun, albeit exhausting, parts of the conference, when all the would-be speakers have submitted their abstracts, the reviewers have graded them and commented on them, and then the Planning Committee gets to [...]