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@… I explicitly do not discuss the Concrete Reference Syntax (i.e., the angle brackets) in this paper, but some other historical idiosyncrasies:
Michael Piotrowski (2019). “History and the future of markup”. In: Proceedings of XML Prague 2019 (Prague, Feb. 7–9, 2019). Ed. by Jiří Kosek, pp. 323–333. URL:

@… I explicitly do not discuss the Concrete Reference Syntax (i.e., the angle brackets) in this paper, but some other historical idiosyncrasies:
Michael Piotrowski (2019). “History and the future of markup”. In: Proceedings of XML Prague 2019 (Prague, Feb. 7–9, 2019). Ed. by Jiří Kosek, pp. 323–333. URL:

In case anyone here has connections with the Python team: can you please tell them to update their docs on XML security? The way it is is quite misleading, and it's been annoying me for a while. I raised this a while ago in their issue tracker, but it got no reaction whatsoever. https://github.com/python/cpython/issu…

Reconsider XML Security warnings / obsolete vulnerabilities · Issue #127502 · python/cpython
Documentation The documentation for the xml.etree.ElementTree API contains the following stark warning: Warning: The xml.etree.ElementTree module is not secure against maliciously constructed data....

Today I learned! Magento 1 Layout.XML and JSON to encode action parameter
https://winkelwagen.de/2025/06/05/magento-1-json-in-layout-xml/

Magento 1: JSON in layout xml
Today I learned, one can use JSON in Magento 1’s layout xml. Tell Magento which action parameter are json and that’s it. You can tell Magento that only one parameter is json, like this.…

What am I doing instead of resting? Well, I'm playing with generating EPYTEST_DESELECT from `epytest --junit-xml=…`
#Gentoo #PyTest #Python

Another exciting thing I discovered: https://jsoncrack.com/

JSON Crack | Transform your data into interactive graphs
JSON Crack Editor is a tool for visualizing into graphs, analyzing, editing, formatting, querying, transforming and validating JSON, CSV, YAML, XML, and more.

Distributed Text Services for Digital Classics
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=s1po4jVKkys
> Digital Classicist London seminarDistributed Text Services for Digital ClassicsThibault Clérice (Inria, Paris)Friday July 11, 2025, 17:00-18:15 BSTSenate Hou...…

So, @… is working on using LLMs to process XML Except for, the models can’t write legal XML. So he’s using the model to generate a sloppy-XML parser: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/202…

My First Open Source AI Generated Library
In a first for me, I published some agentic programmed AI slop to PyPI.

Who in Congresses voted for this bad bill: https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll190.xml
Gotta make memes that help cement each one of them as destroyers of Medicaid, SNAP, the Affordable Care Act and the explosion of ice into the largest law enforcement agency in the country.

Lars Klingbeil fehlt halt das Visionäre, so wie der SPD die Visionen.
So wird das nichts.
https://www.dw.com/de/news-kompakt-schwerer-dämpfer-für-vizekanzler-klingbeil/a-73074465?maca=de-rss-de…

News kompakt: Schwerer Dämpfer für Vizekanzler Klingbeil
Die deutschen Sozialdemokraten haben ihre Parteispitze neu gewählt. Ruanda und die Demokratische Republik Kongo unterzeichnen ein Friedensabkommen. Das Wichtigste in Kürze.

from my link log —
Against Curry-Howard mysticism.
https://liamoc.net/forest/loc-000S/index.xml
saved 2025-05-26 https://

Viele Menschen verstehen #Warnungen wie „#Hitzeindex“ oder „#Hitzewarnung“ falsch. Das zeigt eine US-Studie.
Fast die Hälfte hält den Hitzeindex für die reine

Bridging the Gap between National Weather Service Heat Terminology and Public Understanding
Abstract Clearly communicating heat warning information to the public is an important way to reduce heat mortality and morbidity. However, heat communication interventions from the National Weather Service commonly include technical and scientific terms, otherwise known as jargon. These terms, such as heat advisory or heat index, may not be understood by the public. Given the importance of message understanding in protective action decision-making, the purpose of this study is to assess how the…

PlanQA: A Benchmark for Spatial Reasoning in LLMs using Structured Representations
Fedor Rodionov, Abdelrahman Eldesokey, Michael Birsak, John Femiani, Bernard Ghanem, Peter Wonka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07644

PlanQA: A Benchmark for Spatial Reasoning in LLMs using Structured Representations
We introduce PlanQA, a diagnostic benchmark for evaluating geometric and spatial reasoning in large-language models (LLMs). PlanQA is grounded in structured representations of indoor scenes, such as kitchens, living rooms, and bedrooms, encoded in a symbolic format (e.g., JSON, XML layouts). The benchmark includes diverse question types that test not only metric and topological reasoning (e.g., distance, visibility, shortest paths) but also interior design constraints such as affordance, cleara…

Weekend Reads
* A new RPKI design https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01465
* Finding New IP KVMs https://www.runzero.com/blog/oob-p1-ip-kvm/

A new efficient RPKI Design
Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is a critical security mechanism for BGP, but the complexity of its architecture is a growing concern as its adoption scales. Current RPKI design heavily reuses legacy PKI components, such as X.509 EE-certificates, ASN.1 encoding, and XML-based repository protocols, all these introduce excessive cryptographic validation, redundant metadata, and inefficiencies in both storage and processing. We show that these design choices, although based on establishe…

📣 Aufgepasst! Die Edirom Summer School 2025 hat die Registrierungen geöffnet!
🎼 Wie jedes Jahr, erwartet euch ein spannendes Programm: Neben den Klassikern TEI, MEI und einer Einführung in die Edirom Software bieten Kolleg:innen unseres Konsortiums einen Kurs zu Forschungsdatenmanagement an mit einem Fokus auf musikwissenschaftliche und editorische Forschungsvorhaben.
🙌 Wir laden alle Interessierten herzlich zur Teilnahme ein!

EVOKS (Editor for Vocabularies to Know Semantics) "allows you to:
- create a #SKOS vocabulary from scratch
- import SKOS vocabularies in RDF/XML or Turtle format
- edit SKOS vocabularies without using its textual representation
- work collaborativley
- publish the vocabulary with a single click in the vocabulary browser

Remember when XML-RPC got cool so everyone rushed to haphazardly attach endpoints to their stuff? And then how also everyone found that maybe they should have rushed less to a more complete solution that actually took care of things like… security?
Ok, now: MCP.

Evaluating Structured Output Robustness of Small Language Models for Open Attribute-Value Extraction from Clinical Notes
Nikita Neveditsin, Pawan Lingras, Vijay Mago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01810

Evaluating Structured Output Robustness of Small Language Models for Open Attribute-Value Extraction from Clinical Notes
We present a comparative analysis of the parseability of structured outputs generated by small language models for open attribute-value extraction from clinical notes. We evaluate three widely used serialization formats: JSON, YAML, and XML, and find that JSON consistently yields the highest parseability. Structural robustness improves with targeted prompting and larger models, but declines for longer documents and certain note types. Our error analysis identifies recurring format-specific fail…

Hiddenlayer came up with a security bypass for all LLMs. Just ask for a script of a Dr. House episode and inject some policy XML. Also, use l337sp33k: #llmsecurity #llm

A new efficient RPKI Design
Haya Schulmann, Niklas Vogel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01465 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01465

A new efficient RPKI Design
Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is a critical security mechanism for BGP, but the complexity of its architecture is a growing concern as its adoption scales. Current RPKI design heavily reuses legacy PKI components, such as X.509 EE-certificates, ASN.1 encoding, and XML-based repository protocols, all these introduce excessive cryptographic validation, redundant metadata, and inefficiencies in both storage and processing. We show that these design choices, although based on establishe…

More on the crisis in open-source maintenance as exemplified by libxml2: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1025971/73f269ad3695186d/
Some money *has* to start flowing into this community or the foundations we all rely on will start rotting away. Given the many-bi…

A tak poza tym, to wysłałem parę łatek, by ulepszyć funkcję epytest w #Gentoo.
Wymuszają krótkie podsumowania, załączają tworzenie plików junit .xml, żeby ułatwić maszynowe przetwarzanie wyników, i — co najważniejsze — dodają zmienną EPYTEST_PLUGINS, żeby podawać, które wtyczki mają być załadowane. Będziemy dążyć do tego, by całkiem odejść od domyślnego automatycznego ładowania wtyczek.

In other news, I've sent a few fun patches to improve epytest in #Gentoo.
This includes forcing short summaries, creating junit .xml for machine processing, and most importantly, EPYTEST_PLUGINS to handle specifying the plugins to load. The goal is to eventually move away from plugin autoloading by default.
#PyTest #Python