XML 2005 paper

I finished and submitted my XML 2005 conference paper yesterday. It's always a relief to get that done. What I've submitted is the paper for the conference proceedings; I still need to do the slides for the actual presentation. The topic is "Creating and Maintaining Large Families of Related Schemas". Most of my talks tend to be "how we should be doing this" pieces, but this one is a "how I actually did it in practice" piece. That means it doesn't have a single golden thread of intellectual purity tying it together, rather it is a collection of a whole variety of things that I needed to do to build and manage a family of >450 W3C XML Schemas for a client.

If you can make it to Atlanta in November for XML 2005, it should be a lot of fun (the previous conferences certainly have been). If you would like to catch up with me at the conference, let me know, and we can organise something. It's always nice to put faces to names and/or e-mail addresses.