Wilma is an XML markup language for "WebLog"-type websites, like Jorn Barger's Robot Wisdom site. There are lots of these around now, and Casbah will be an ideal tool to use in building WebLogs.

We've done lots of work with XML, all of which is going to culminate in Camel, the Casbah Markup Language. Wilma, and about 10 other XML schemas, will be part of Camel, but Wilma may be of general interest, so I decided to put it here separately.

Wilma is composed of:

• Wilma.dtd
• ISO Symbol and Special entities
• Latin 1 entities
• John Cowan's HTML 4 in XML, ibtwsh.dtd

This means that you can include basically any arbitrary HTML 4.0 markup within the an instance of Wilma. This is a good thing. HTML in XML isn't as tough as people seem to think.

A Sample Instance of Wilma Markup Language

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<wilma id="021499">
   <item id="001">
     <category>Linux</category>
     <title>Dell Embraces Linux</title>
     <poster>kclark@ntlug.org</poster>
     <link url="http://news.com/foo...">[News.com]</link>
     <descrip>
        <p><b>Dell's</b> newfound interest in the Linux OS is turning
        some heads in Corporate America...</p>
     </descrip>
   </item>
</wilma>