XML Pipeline - XML Pipeline History

XML Pipeline History

• 1972 Douglas McIlroy of Bell Laboratories adds the pipe operator to the UNIX command shell. This allows the output from one shell program to go directly into input of another shell program without going to disk. This allowed programs such as the UNIX awk and sed to be specialized yet work together . For more details see Pipeline (Unix).
• 1993 Sean McGrath developed a C++ toolkit for SGML processing .
• 1998 Stefano Mazzocchi releases the first version of Apache Cocoon, one of the first software programs to use XML pipelines.
• 1998 PolarLake build XML Operating System, which includes XML Pipelining.
• 2002 Notes submitted by Norman Walsh and Eve Maler from Sun Microsystems, as well as a W3C Submission submitted in 2005 by Erik Bruchez and Alessandro Vernet from Orbeon, were important steps toward spawning an actual standardization effort. While neither submission directly became a W3C recommendation, they were considered key sources of inspiration for the W3C XML Processing Working Group.
• September 2005 W3C XML Processing Working Group started. The task of this working group was to create a specification for an XML pipelining language.
• August 2008, xmlsh, an XML pipeline language was announced at Balisage 2008