The following articles have recently been posted on XML Today that may be of
interest to this community:

Why the XML Community Must Follow Medical Health Record DebateThe issue of
health care reform has loomed large recently with President Obama's recent
call to create a more comprehensive health care system, and electronic
health records have played a major part of that debate. I had the ...
dubious ... privilege a few years ago to work on a patient medical health
record system here in Canada for a group of private investors, and
discovered the hard way that, there are a number of incredible difficult,
intractable problems with putting together such systems - even when you
start with the base assumption that you're working with XML content.

http://www.xmltoday.org/content/why-xml-community-must-follow-medical-health-record-debate

An Interview with David Lee, Creator of XML Shell

I've had quite an enjoyable time working with XML Shell<http://www.xmlsh.org/>,
and was able to spend some time tadlking with David Lee, the creator of the
shell program.

Kurt: When and how did you first get into XML?

David: My first exposure to XML was around 1999 when I was working as a
consultant for Centubra Software (formerly Gupta). I was in tools division
working on the "Centura Team Developer" project (CTD). CTD is a 4GL language
for writing business software. I was on the team tasked with exposing XML as
a native data type within CTD. At the time this meant supporting both a DOM
representation and XPath natively within CTD. At the time I thought XPath
was a very inefficient way to get at XML data but from a 4GL perspective it
made good sense because it meant you could write in one line of CTD what may
take hundreds of lines of C.

http://www.xmltoday.org/content/interview-david-lee-creator-xml-shell
XQuery as a Shell Language (Part 4) External Calls From XQuery

This is the last in the series on the XML Shell (xmlsh)<http://www.xmlsh.org/>,
created by David Lee. In talking with David recently, I brought up a
question that I had been struggling with - was there any way within an
XQuery script to call out to the shell and get results. At the time, David
told me, there wasn't ... but a couple days later he wrote back and let me
know that he'd been so intrigued by the possibilities that he nearly pulled
an all-nighter to make it work. This he then submitted into a new, beta
build for xmlsh which is now available for download on his website (
http://www.xmlsh.org). Please note that this is *very* new functionality,
and will only work with the 0.1.0.1 beta build and above.

http://www.xmltoday.org/content/xquery-shell-language-part-4-external-calls-xquery
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I am gearing up to do a series on XForms 1.1 state of the art and
implementations, and am interested in hearing from people in the XML
community that are currently working with XForms in one incarnation or
another from either an implementation or a deployment standpoint. What do
you like about XForms, what are the biggest problems, which implementation
are you working on (or supporting) and which do you think in general holds
the greatest promise. You can answer here or email me directly at
kurt.cagle@g....

Kurt Cagle
Managing Editor
http://xmlToday.org