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Dear Reader,

Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

This week Michael Day, one of the smart people behind Prince (a tool for
printing XML) offers a heuristic for sniffing the difference between
arbitrary HTML and XML documents. Sometimes sniffing is a really bad
idea,
like when your bank says you can't access your accounts because you're
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using *that other* browser, but sometimes it's the *only* idea.

What Does XML Smell Like?
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/02/28/what-does-xml-smell-like.html?page=2

Some recent XML.com weblog highlights include:

New XML.com weblogger, Kevin Farnham
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/02/kevin_farnham_on_xmlcom_introd.html

Rick Jelliffe, What is a Standard at ISO?
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/02/what_is_a_standard_at_iso_1.html

Now for what Tim Bray calls the periodic "tab sweep":

Guido van Rossume's PyCon 2007 Review
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=197203

A fragmentary design for a RESTful database
http://blog.extracheese.org/2007/02/introducing-another-wildly-ambitious.html

A classic: Feynman's "Cargo Cult Science"
http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/science.html

Tim Bray on OpenID
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/02/24/OpenID

Prerendered User Interfaces for Higher-Assurance Electronic Voting
http://zesty.ca/voting/prui/prui.html

As always, thanks for reading.

Kendall Clark
kendall@xml.com
Managing Editor, XML.com

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