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Cover Pages Newsletter
July 30, 2002
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Featured News Stories Selected Articles and Papers Selected from the Press Events Cover Pages Sponsors
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Recently featured news stories from the Cover Pages news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/news.html OR http://xml.coverpages.org/covernewsTOP.html
OASIS to Host UDDI Project Technical Work
The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) Project has announced the transition of its standards work to OASIS. OASIS will serve as the steward for the UDDI project and activities and will continue development of the UDDI technical work in a new technical committee. Existing UDDI Business Registries will continue to be made available by the UDDI registry operators. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-07-30-b.html
OASIS LegalXML Member Section Creates Four New Technical Committees
Four technical committees are being formed to support the standards activity of the OASIS LegalXML Member Section, complementing work currently underway in the Electronic Court Filing TC. Additions include: eContracts TC, eNotarization TC, Integrated Justice TC, and Legal Transcripts TC. The LegalXML Member Section unites legal and technical experts in a common forum to create standards for the electronic exchange of legal data. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-07-30-a.html
Exclusive XML Canonicalization from IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group Becomes W3C Recommendation
The IETF/W3C 'Exclusive XML Canonicalization' specification has become a W3C Recommendation. It works in combination with the 'XML-Signature Syntax and Processing' Recommendation, providing a method of serializing an XML fragment into a portable and canonical form. This functionality is critical for electronic commerce, ensuring the integrity of documents and protocol messages that travel between multiple XML processors. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-07-29-c.html
Web3D Consortium Publishes X3D Final Working Draft
The Web3D Consortium recently announced the publication of a final working draft for the X3D 'Extensible 3D' specification. Relevant XML DTDs and schemas are presented in Annex A of Part 3, 'Extensible Markup Language (XML) Encoding.' X3D enables the creation and deployment of state-of-the-art 3D graphics on small, lightweight clients, and the integration of high-performance 3D into broadcast and embedded devices. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-07-29-b.html
ANSI ASC X12 Document Proposes Reference Model for XML Electronic Business Messages
ANSI's ASC X12 committee has published a document 'ASC X12 Reference Model for XML Design' detailing a proposed reference model for electronic business messages based on XML. The reference model is built on ebXML standards developed by OASIS and UN/CEFACT and takes into account the Universal Business Language XML schemas for standard business messages. The model addresses document assembly, granularity, modularity, and semantic specificity. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-07-29-a.html
IBM MPEG-7 Annotation Tool Supports XML Metadata Description
IBM alphaWorks has released a downloadable MPEG-7 Annotation Tool which assists in annotating video sequences with XML-based MPEG-7 metadata. Each shot in the video sequence can be annotated with static scene descriptions, key object descriptions, event descriptions, and other lexicon sets. The annotated descriptions are associated with each video shot and are put out and stored as MPEG-7 descriptions in an XML file. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-07-25-a.html
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Selections of abstracted and annotated articles/clippings at: http://xml.coverpages.org/articles.html http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings.html
XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0. W3C Candidate Recommendation 18-July-2002. By John Boyer, Merlin Hughes, and Joseph Reagle, with the IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-xmldsig-filter2-20020718/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200207.html#W3C-CR-xmldsig-filter2
"Vignette Joins WS-I, Adds Web Services To Content, Commerce Mix." By Richard Karpinski. In InternetWeek (July 29, 2002). http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/INW20020729S0001 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200207.html#VignetteJoinsWS-I
"Controlled Trade Markup Language (CTML)." Edited by Kathleen Yoshida (FGM Inc.). Working Draft v0.1.0.0. 25-July-2002. CTML Draft Specification v0.1.0.0. 34 pages. Prepared by the OASIS Controlled Trade Markup Language (CTML) Technical Committee. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200207.html#CTML-DraftVocabulary
"Building XML Portals with Cocoon." By Carsten Ziegeler and Matthew Langham. From XML.com. July 24, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/07/24/xmlportal.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200207.html#CocoonBasics
"OASIS Swallows UDDI.org." By Tom Sullivan. In InfoWorld (July 29, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/29/020729hnuddioasis.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200207.html#UDDI-Facelift
"Introduction to RELAX NG." By Michael Classen. From WebReference.com (July 23, 2002). http://www.webreference.com/xml/column60/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200207.html#ClassenRELAXNG
"Data Modeling Using XML Schemas." By Murali Mani (Computer Science Dept, UCLA). Presentation to be given Wednesday, August 7, 2002 as a Nocturne at the Extreme Markup Languages Conference 2002. http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2002/related.asp
"The Evolution of UDDI." By The Stencil Group, Inc. UDDI.org White Paper. July 19, 2002. 15 pages. http://www.uddi.com/pubs/UDDIWhitePaper20020724.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200207.html#UDDI-Evolution
"Schemachine. A Framework For Modular Validation of XML Documents." By Rick Jelliffe. June 21, 2002. http://www.topologi.com/public/Schemachine.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200207.html#Schemachine
"OASIS Forms WS-Security Committee." By Brian Fonseca. In InfoWorld (July 23, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/23/020723hnoasisws.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200207.html#WSS-TC-Announce
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"UN/CEFACT and OASIS Finalize Appointments to Joint Coordination Committee for ebXML. Oracle and Sterling Commerce Join ebXML Management." http://xml.coverpages.org/ebXML-JointCoordinationCommittee.html
"UDDI.org Announces an Enhanced UDDI Business Registry. Multi-version UDDI Business Registry Goes Live." http://xml.coverpages.org/UDDI-EnhancedBusinessRegistry.html
"OASIS Members Form Web Services Security Technical Committee." http://xml.coverpages.org/OASIS-WS-SecuritySpecification20020723.html
"NTT Com and IBM to Build Asia's First UDDI Business Registry." http://xml.coverpages.org/IBM-NTT-UDDI20020717.html
"Netegrity Announces New TransactionMinder Product. Provides Missing Link for Authentication and Authorization of Web Services." http://xml.coverpages.org/NetegrityTransactionMinder.html
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Extreme Markup Languages Conference 2002. August 4 - 9, 2002. Hotel Wyndham, Montreal, Canada. http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2002 http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#Extreme2002
First VLDB Workshop on Efficiency and Effectiveness of XML Tools and Techniques (EEXTT2002). August 19, 2002. Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel, Hong Kong, China. http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~ebh/eextt2002/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#EEXTT2002
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