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About the Program on Liberation Technology. The Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law seeks to understand how information technology can be used to improve governance, empower the poor, defend human rights, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods. The past few years have seen explosive growth in the use of information technology to defend human rights, improve governance, fight corruption, deter electoral fraud, expose government wrongdoing, empower the poor, promote economic development, protect the environment, educate consumers, improve public health, and pursue a variety of other social goods. Launched in 2009, the Program on Liberation Technology spent its initial years focused on the use of technology by democratic movements and its abuse by authoritarian regimes resulting in a conference (Liberation Technology in Authoritarian Regimes) and a series of publications examining this topic.

DeveloperWorks : XML tutorials, code, and forums. [tel-00421911, version 3] Flux XML, Requêtes XPath et Automates. [inria-00638851, version 1] A Dynamic Workflow Simulation Platform. Thinking XML: The XML flavor of HTML5. 08 Jul 2010: Added two Resources per author request: Tip: Always use an XML declaration and thanks to Michael Smith. The history of HTML has been controversial at every turn.

Despite the best efforts of web architects, the web has always been a wild frontier of messy, confusing, and sometimes just diabolically broken markup (nicknamed tag soup). One ambition of XML has always been to help clean up this mess, hence XML's designation as "SGML for the web" (SGML is the meta-language of which HTML is just one flavor). XML came on the scene and immediately made a lot of waves. Even without the mounting evidence that XML is not a panacea, browser developers were always going to have difficulty migrating to a strict XML-based path for the web given the enormous legacy of pages using tag soup, and considering Postel's Law, named after legendary computer scientist John Postel.

Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others. XHTML is dead. Fun with DOCTYPE Back to top. Campus.hesge.ch/Daehne/TB/2010/MoroArielle.pdf.