==================================================================== Cover Pages Newsletter October 01, 2002 Website: http://xml.coverpages.org Hosted by: OASIS Sponsored by: ISOGEN International LLC and Sun Microsystems, Inc. ==================================================================== CONTENTS Featured News Stories Selected Articles and Papers Selected from the Press Events Cover Pages Sponsors -------------------------------------------------------------------- Featured News Stories -------------------------------------------------------------------- Recently featured news stories from the Cover Pages news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/news.html OR http://xml.coverpages.org/covernewsTOP.html UN/CEFACT Releases ebXML Core Component Technical Specification for Second Public Review. The 'UN/CEFACT - ebXML Core Component Technical Specification' Version 1.85 has been released for Public Review through 22-November-2002. The solution described in the specification presents a methodology for developing a common set of semantic building blocks that represent the general types of business data in use today and provides for the creation of new business vocabularies and restructuring of existing business vocabularies. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-10-01-a.html IBM alphaWorks Releases UDDI Registry Extensions. An IBM alphaWorks team has released extensions that enhance the IBM WebSphere UDDI Registry (v 1.1.1) with advanced search capabilities. These UDDI Registry Extensions provide additional search capabilities that enable the formation of complex queries comprising search criteria from two standard UDDI 'find' APIs. The extensions make the Registry easier to use; they also reduce network bandwidth usage and improve performance. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-09-30-c.html US Internal Revenue Service Establishes Online XML Developers' Forum for Employment Tax E-file System. The IRS has set up a "94x XML Developers' Forum" to provide information and technical guidance for software developers interested in developing software for the new Employment Tax e-file System in XML. The website provides links to relevant XML Schemas, technical documents, and announcements. The new XML based system covers 940/941 filing. An associated US Fed/State Employment Tax XML Forum supplies related state level XML schemas. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-09-30-b.html STARLab Object Role Modeling Markup Language (ORM-ML) Represents ORM Models in XML. A research team at STARLab (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) has developed an Object Role Modeling markup language (ORM-ML) for representing ORM models in XML based syntax. Stylesheets convert this ORM-ML syntax into other syntaxes for processing by business rule engines. A verbalization style sheet for ORM-ML documents supports the expression of facts and the rules in pseudo natural language sentences for validation by domain specialists. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-09-30-a.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected Articles and Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------- Selections of abstracted and annotated articles/clippings at: http://xml.coverpages.org/articles.html http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings.html "Apache AXIS Axis 1.0 Release Candidate 2." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200209.html#clip2002-09-30-e "Antenna House Releases XSL Formatter Version 2.3." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200209.html#clip2002-09-30-d "W3C Announces Workshop on the Future of P3P." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200209.html#clip2002-09-30-c "XML Validation Interoperability Framework Updated." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200209.html#clip2002-09-30-b "October 2002 Topic Map Conference to be Held in Oslo." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200209.html#clip2002-09-30-a "Userland Releases RSS 2.0 for Really Simple Syndication." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200209.html#clip2002-09-28-b "Telematica Instituut Hosts ebXML Demonstrator." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200209.html#clip2002-09-28-a "Excelon Bulks up XML Support." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (September 30, 2002). http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,562486,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200210.html#Excelon "Case-Insensitive Enumerations. A simple, automated solution for allowing both upper- and lowercase letters." By Doug Tidwell (Senior Programmer, IBM). From IBM developerWorks, XML zone. October 2002. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-case/index.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200210.html#Tidwell "Guide to the XML Schema Specifications." Techquila's Topicmap-powered browser for the W3C XML Schema Specifications. By Kal Ahmed (Techquila). October 01, 2002. http://www.techquila.com/topicmaps/xmlschema/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200210.html#Ahmed "XML Glossary: XML Acronyms for Java Developers." By Joe Walker. In Java World (September 2002). http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2002/jw-0927-xmlglossary_p.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200210.html#Walker "XML, The Model Driven Architecture (MDA), and RDF." By Uche Ogbuji (Fourthought, Inc). Paper presented at XML Europe 2002 (Barcelona, Spain). http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xmle02/dx_xmle02/papers/03-05-08/03-05-08.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200210.html#OgbujiMDA "Tip: Multi-pass XSLT. Use the node-set extension to break down the XSLT operation into two or more passes." By Uche Ogbuji (Principal Consultant, Fourthought, Inc). From IBM developerWorks, XML zone. September 2002. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipxsltmp.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200210.html#XSLT-MP "URN Namespace for NewsML Resources." By David Allen (IPTC). IETF Network Working Group, Internet-Draft. Reference: 'draft-allen-newsml- urn-rfc3085bis-00.txt'. September 24, 2002; expires February 25, 2003. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-allen-newsml-urn-rfc3085bis-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200210.html#NewsML-URN "Componetizer: A Tool for Extracting and Documenting XML Schema Components," By Marcel Jemio and Alan Kotok (Data Interchange Standards Association - DISA). DISA Technical Note. September 2002. http://www.disa.org/technotes/TechNote2002_01.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200210.html#DISA "XML to Drive Office Update." By Peter Galli. In eWEEK (September 30, 2002). http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,561973,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Galli "The Importance of TMX." By David Pooley (SDL International). In Globalization Insider: The LISA Newsletter Volume XI, Number 3.6 (September 26, 2002). ISSN: 1420-3693. TMX Special Issue. http://www.lisa.org/archive_domain/newsletters/2002/3.6/pooley.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Pooley "TMX 1.4a." By Yves Savourel, (OSCAR). In Globalization Insider: The LISA Newsletter Volume XI, Number 3.6 (September 26, 2002). ISSN: 1420-3693. TMX Special Issue. http://www.lisa.org/archive_domain/newsletters/2002/3.6/savourel.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Savourel "A Conceptual Markup Language that Supports Interoperability between Business Rule Modeling Systems." By Jan Demey, Mustafa Jarrar, and Robert Meersman (VUB STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium). Paper prepared for CoopIS 2002 (Tenth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, October 30 - November 1, 2002, University of California, Irvine). 17 pages. http://starlab.vub.ac.be/publications/coopis02.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#ORMcoopis02 Employment Tax e-file System Implementation and User Guide 2003. Forms 940, 940PR, 941, 941PR, 941SS, and Related Schedules. US Internal Revenue Service, Electronic Tax Administration. IRS Publication 3823 (Draft). 135 pages. http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/pub3823draft082302.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#IRS940 "OMB Names Microsoft and IBM Tools as E-Gov Platforms." By Jason Miller. In Volume 21, Number 28 (September 16, 2002), page 7. http://www.gcn.com/21_28/e_gov/20000-1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Miller "RLG Best Practice Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description." By RLG EAD Advisory Group. August 2002. 34 pages. http://www.rlg.org/rlgead/bpg.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#rlg-ead "Web Services Wars Take Artistic Turn." By Stuart J. Johnston. In XML Magazine Volume 3, Number 6 (October/November 2002), pages 8-9. http://www.fawcette.com/xmlmag/2002_10/magazine/columns/signal/sjohnston/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Choreography "ConTeXtualized Local Ontology Specification via CTXML." By Paolo Bouquet and Stefano Zanobini (Dept. of Computer Information and Communication Technologies, University of Trento, Italy), Antonia Doną and Luciano Serafini (ITC-Irst, Trento, Italy). Presented at the AAAI-02 Workshop on Meaning Negotiation (MeaN-02), July 28, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 8 pages, with 6 references. http://sra.itc.it/people/serafini/distribution/aaai-ws-ctxml.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Mean02 "Linguistic Based Matching of Local Ontologies." By Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini, and Manuela Speranza (ITC-Irst Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy). Presented at the AAAI-02 Workshop on Meaning Negotiation (MeaN-02), July 28, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. http://sra.itc.it/people/serafini/distribution/aaai-ws-ctxmatch.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#LocalOnt "Framework for a Music Markup Language." By Jacques Steyn. Paper presented at MAX 2002 - International Conference Musical Application using XML, September 19 - 20, 2002, State University of Milan, Italy. http://www.musicmarkup.info/MAX/max2002paper.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Steyn "The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI)." By Perry Roland (Digital Library Research & Development Group, University of Virginia Library). Paper presented at MAX 2002 - International Conference Musical Application using XML, September 19 - 20, 2002, State University of Milan, Italy. http://www.lim.dsi.unimi.it/max2002/docs/PRolandMAX2002.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Roland "A Comparison of XPDL, BPML, and BPEL4WS." By Robert Shapiro (President and Chief Technology Officer, Cape Visions). Published by ebPML.org. 'Rough Draft' version 1.4, August 27, 2002. 17 pages. http://xml.coverpages.org/Shapiro-XPDL.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Shapiro "Sun Sneak-Previews Next Version of J2EE." By Richard Karpinski. In InternetWeek (September 26, 2002). http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/INW20020926S0006 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#J2EE14 "Content at Your Fingertips: Better Ways to Classify and Tag." By Michael P. Voelker (Equinox Communications, Inc). In Transform Magazine (October 2002). http://www.transformmag.com/db_area/archs/2002/10/tfm0210f1.shtml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Voelker "'Bluefin' to Provide Standard SAN Management Interface." By Roger Reich. In InfoStor Volume 6, Number 9 (September 2002), pages 22-24. http://is.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?ARTICLE_ID=154769 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Reich "Sun Software Supports CIM." By Lisa Coleman. In InfoStor Volume 6, Number 9 (September 2002), pages 1, 20. http://is.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?ARTICLE_ID=154746 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#SunCIM "Holistic Web Services." By Jeremy Allaire. From Jeremy Allaire's Radio: An exploration of media, communications and applications over the Internet. September 24, 2002. http://radio.weblogs.com/0113297/stories/2002/09/24/wholisticWebServices.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Allaire "IBM Plans WebSphere for Web Services." By Matt Berger. In InfoWorld (September 26, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/26/020926hnallegro.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Allegro "IBM Readying New WebSphere Software For Web Services Hosting. Project Allegro Product Available Next Year." By Elizabeth Montalbano. In CRN (September 25, 2002). http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=37632 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#AllegroWS "Extending RSS 2.0 With Namespaces." By Morbus Iff [aka Kevin Hemenway]. 2002-09. http://www.disobey.com/detergent/2002/extendingrss2/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#RSS20Note "At the Center of The Patent Storm." By Paul Festa and Daniel J. Weitzner (Director, W3C Technology and Society Activity). In CNET News.com (September 25, 2002). http://news.com.com/2008-1082-959180.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Weitzner "Introduction to Xindice. An Open Source Native XML Database System." By Arun Gaikwad (Independent Software Consultant). From IBM developerWorks, Web architecture, XML zone. September 2002. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-xindice.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Xindice "Canonical XML Encoding Rules (cXER) for Secure Messages. An ASN.1 Schema for Secure XML Markup." By Phil Griffin (Griffin Consulting). Presentation prepared for the RSA Conference 2002 Europe, October 7 - 10, 2002, Le Palais des Congrčs de Paris, Paris, France. 19 pages. http://xml.coverpages.org/Griffin-cXER-Paris.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200209.html#Griffin -------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected from the Press -------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html "Cross Industry ebXML Interoperability Flourishes. 12 Leading Vendors participate in ebXML Message Service Testing." http://xml.coverpages.org/ebXMLInteroperability20021001.html "Web Services Technologies Reach New Heights. Multiplatform Computing Benefits From Standard, Interoperable, Portable Java Web Services. New Programs and Services for Developers Available from Sun." http://xml.coverpages.org/SunJ2EE-v14-Japan.html "Data Interchange Standards Association Develops New Software Tool to Ease XML Schema Documentation." http://xml.coverpages.org/DISA-Componetizer.html "eXcelon Announces Stylus Studio 4.5. Latest Release of Industry's Most Comprehensive XML/XSLT Development Tools Enable Teams to Rapidly Build and Debug Applications Bridging J2EE and .NET Environments." http://xml.coverpages.org/eXcelonStylusStudio45.html "eXcelon Announces Latest Release of eXtensible Information Server (XIS). New Version of Native XML Database Enables Application Interoperability across .NET and J2EE Environments, Adds XQuery and Verity Text Searching Support." http://www.exln.com/news/pressreleases/releases/020930_xis.shtml http://xml.coverpages.org/press2002Q3.html#eXcelonXIS "ActiveState Unveils Industry's First Professional Workspace For Open Source Languages. Komodo 2.0 With Web Services Support and GUI Builder." http://xml.coverpages.org/Komodo20-WS.html "Choreograph Web Services with BindStudio." http://xml.coverpages.org/BindStudioAnnounce.html "New Standards for Legal Information Exchange Underway at OASIS LegalXML. Consortium Forms Technical Committees to Address Standards for Integrated Justice, eNotarization, eContracts, Electronic Court Filing, Legislative Documents, and Transcripts." http://xml.coverpages.org/LegalXML-NewTCs20020925.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Events -------------------------------------------------------------------- DocEng 2002. ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. November 8 - 9, 2002. McLean, Virginia, USA. http://www.sdml.cs.kent.edu/doceng2002/index.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#docEng2002 WIDM 2002. Fourth International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management. November 8, 2002. SAIC Headquarters, McLean, Virginia, USA. http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/%7Eeplim/widm2002 http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#widm02 ER 2002. 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. October 7 - 11, 2002. Tampere Hall Congress Centre, Tampere, Finland. http://er2002.cs.uta.fi/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#er2002 LISA Forum Europe 2002. "Standards in Localization and Translation Multilingual Content Authoring, Web-Services, Workflow and your Company's ROI." November 4 - 7, 2002. Marriott Hotel, Heidelberg, Germany. http://www.lisa.org/events/2002europe/index.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#LISA2002 CIKM 2002. 11th International ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. November 4 - 9, 2002. SAIC Headquarters, McLean, Virginia, USA. http://www.cikm.org/2002/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#cikm2002 Digital ID World Conference 2002. October 9 - 11, 2002. Hyatt Regency Tech Center, Denver, CO, USA. http://www.digitalidworld.com/conference/2002/index.php http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#digitalidworld2002 RSA Conference 2002 Europe. October 7 - 10, 2002. Le Palais des Congres de Paris, Paris, France. http://www.rsaconference.net/paris/index.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#RSAEurope2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cover Pages Sponsors -------------------------------------------------------------------- Publication costs for the Cover Pages website and for this newsletter are underwritten by OASIS Members committed to providing this OASIS resource freely to the public: Sun Microsystems, Inc. URL: http://sun.com ISOGEN International LLC URL: http://www.isogen.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list send a post to: newsletter-unsubscribe@xml.coverpages.org