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Cover Pages Newsletter
November 12, 2002
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CONTENTS
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
W3C XForms 1.0 Advances to Candidate Recommendation Status.
The W3C XForms Working Group has published a Candidate Recommendation version of the "XForms 1.0" specification. XForms 1.0 provides a new platform-independent markup language for online interaction between a person (through an XForms Processor) and another, usually remote, agent. XForms is an XML application that separates the XForms model, instance data, and user interface, providing a next generation design for forms on the Web. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-11-12-c.html
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Version 1.0 an OASIS Open Standard.
The OASIS membership has voted to approve version 1.0 of the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) as an OASIS standard. SAML is an XML- based framework for Web services that allows the exchange of authentication and authorization information among business partners. It incorporates XML Signature, XML Encryption, and SOAP, enabling Web- based security interoperability functions such as single sign-on across multiple web sites. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-11-12-b.html
Processing XML with Java: A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX.
Addison-Wesley has published Elliotte Rusty Harold's substantial volume "Processing XML with Java: A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX." The full text is also provided online by the author. Written for Java programmers who want to integrate XML into their systems, this practical, comprehensive guide and reference provides in-depth discussions on the key XML APIs used to create and manipulate XML files with Java. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-11-12-a.html
OASIS Members Form Tax XML Technical Committee.
An OASIS 'Tax XML' TC is being formed to develop a common vocabulary that will allow participants to unambiguously identify the tax related information exchanged within a particular business context. The Tax XML TC will first create a framework for ongoing development of a robust Tax vocabulary, with XML artifacts and a repository for managing these definitions. Gregory Carson (US Internal Revenue Service) is the interim TC Chair. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-11-11-b.html
W3C Publishes XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0 as W3C Recommendation.
The "XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0" specification from the IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group has been published as a W3C Recommendation. It defines a new XML Signature transform to provide a more efficient method for computing a portion of a document to be signed. The "XML Signature" Recommendation defines a standard means for specifying information content to be digitally signed and for representing the resulting digital signatures in XML. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-11-11-a.html
OpenI18N Announces Common XML Locale Specification.
An announcement from OpenI18N (the Free Standards Group Open Internationalization Initiative) describes the release of an XML specification for common XML locale data. The Common XML Locale Repository project has designed a general XML format for the exchange of culturally sensitive (locale) information for use in application and system development. A Locale Data Markup Language specification defines an XML vocabulary for locale data exchange. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-11-09-a.html
W3C Publishes Guide to the Web Ontology Language (OWL)
The W3C Web Ontology Working Group has produced a Version 1.0 working draft document "Web Ontology Language (OWL) Guide" documenting key concepts and uses of the OWL language. Building on the foundations of the "DAML+OIL" specification, the Web Ontology Language (OWL) is intended to provide a data-semantics language that can be used to describe the classes and relations between them that are inherent in Web documents and applications. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-11-08-b.html
Public Review for OASIS Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) Specification
The OASIS Extensible Access Control Markup Language Technical Committee recently approved a version 1.0 Committee Specification for the XACML specification and voted to move the document forward for standardization. The motivation behind XACML is to express well- established ideas in the field of access-control policy using an extension language of XML. The XACML specification defines an XML schema consistent with this goal. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-11-08-a.html
IEEE Computer Special Issue on Web Services Computing
The IEEE Computer Society has issued a call for papers in connection with a special issue of 'IEEE Computer' dedicated to Web Services Computing. IEEE invites articles relating to integration architectures for Web Services and/or application case studies that use Web Services technology. The issue will be guest edited by co-chairs of the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Electronic Commerce (TFEC). Papers are due January 15, 2003. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-11-07-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
"Using P3P to Negotiate Access Rights to User Profiles " By Wolfgang Woerndl (Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany). A Position Paper prepared for the W3C Workshop on the Future of P3P (November 12-13, 2002). http://www.w3.org/2002/p3p-ws/pp/tu-munich.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Woerndl
"Why is P3P Not a PET?" By Ruchika Agrawal (Electronic Privacy Information Center - EPIC). A Position Paper prepared for the W3C Workshop on the Future of P3P (November 12-13, 2002). http://www.w3.org/2002/p3p-ws/pp/epic.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Agrawal
"A Technical Analysis of Problems With P3P v1.0 and Possible Solutions." By Giles Hogben (Joint Research Center of the European Commission). A Position Paper prepared for the W3C Workshop on the Future of P3P (November 12-13, 2002). http://www.w3.org/2002/p3p-ws/pp/jrc.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Hogben
"Securely Available Credentials Protocol." Edited by Stephen Farrell (Baltimore Technologies). IETF Internet-Draft. Reference: 'draft-ietf- sacred-protocol-bss-04.txt'. November 2002. Appendix A: XML Schema. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sacred-protocol-bss-04.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#sacredBSS
"Take Advantage of Existing External XML Schemas with a Custom Import Framework in ASP.NET." By Scott Short. In MSDN Magazine Volume 17, Number 12 (December 2002). http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/12/XMLSchemaImporting/default.aspx http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Short
"Sending Files, Attachments, and SOAP Messages Via Direct Internet Message Encapsulation." By Jeannine Hall Gailey. In MSDN Magazine Volume 17, Number 12 (December 2002). http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/12/DIME/default.aspx http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Gailey
"Place XML Message Design Ahead of Schema Planning to Improve Web Service Interoperability." By Yasser Shohoud. In MSDN Magazine Volume 17, Number 12 (December 2002). http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/12/WebServicesDesign/default.aspx http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Shohoud
"Integrate Enterprise Applications with Web Services and J2EE. Combine These Enterprise Technologies to Ease EAI." By Daniela Rudrof (IT Specialist, IBM Security Operations) and Andre Tost (Solution Architect, IBM WebSphere Business Development Group). From IBM developerWorks, Web services. November 2002. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-eai/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Rudrof
"Web Ontology Language (OWL) Abstract Syntax and Semantics." W3C Working Draft 8-November-2002. Edited by Peter F. Patel-Schneider (Bell Labs Research), Patrick Hayes (IHMC, University of West Florida), Ian Horrocks (Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester), Frank van Harmelen (Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Produced by the W3C Web Ontology Working Group. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-owl-semantics-20021108/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#OWLSemantics
"Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools." By Michael Denny. From XML.com. November 06, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/06/ontologies.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Denny
"Standards for Electronic Instructional Materials." By Alan Kotok. From XML.com. November 06, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/06/imaa.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Kotok
"Automatic Numbering, Part 1." By Bob DuCharme. From XML.com. November 06, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/06/tr.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#DuCharmeNU
"Corel Simplifies SoftQuad XMetaL Administration." By Mark Walter. In The Seybold Report Volume 2, Number 15 (November 11, 2002). http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#XMetaL
"Vignette's Complex System Grows Larger in V7. Introduces 'low-end' packaging but retains positions as premier supplier of Web-centric content management." By Luke Cavanagh and Mark Walter. In The Seybold Report Volume 2, Number 15 (November 11, 2002). http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#VignetteV7
"XML Zooms Onto Government Tech Agenda." By Lia Steakley. In Wired News (November 11, 2002). http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56287,00.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Steakley
"GIS Group Advances Info-Sharing Project. Open GIS Consortium, Census Bureau Work on Prototypes for Sharing Geospatial Data." By Brian Robinson. In Federal Computer Week (November 10, 2002). http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2002/1111/web-gis-11-11-02.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Robinson
"XML Data Islands and Persistence in ASP.NET." By Rahul Guha (Senior Software Engineer, Intel e-Business Architecture Group). Intel Technical Report. November 2002. 12 pages. http://cedar.intel.com/media/pdf/xml/xml_data_islands.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#GuhaDataIslands
"SAML Approval Brings Secure Web Services a Step Closer." By Ray Wagner, John Pescatore, and Terry Allan Hicks. From Gartner News Analysis. Gartner FirstTake, #FT-18-7741. 7-November-2002. http://www3.gartner.com/resources/111200/111267/111267.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#HicksSAML
"Interactive Dialog Among Governments, Business Sector and Civil Society." By Patrick J. Gannon (President & CEO, OASIS). Presented at the WSIS Pan-European Regional Conference Plenary Meeting, Bucharest, Romania, November 7-9, 2002. http://xml.coverpages.org/GannonWSIS.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#GannonWSIS
"Web Services Standardization Advances." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (November 08, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/11/08/021108hnwsstd.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Hollander
"Plan to Use XML Namespaces, Part 1. The Best Ways to Use XML Namespaces to Your Advantage." By David Marston (Engineer, IBM Research). From IBM developerWorks, XML Zone. November 2002. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-nmspace.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Marston
"Make Your XML RDF-Friendly." By Bob DuCharme and John Cowan. From XML.com. October 30, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/10/30/rdf-friendly.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#DuCharmeRDF
"Community and Specifications." By Kendall Grant Clark. From XML.com. October 30, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/10/30/deviant.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#ClarkXI
"XML and Web Sites." By John E. Simpson. From XML.com. October 30, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/10/30/qa.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#SimpsonWeb
"Straight-Through Processing and Orchestration of Web Services. A Paradigm to Achieve Internal and External STP." By Gunjan Samtani and Doron Sherman. In Web Services Journal Volume 2 Issue 11 (November 2002), pages 10-14. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/articleprint.cfm?id=386 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#wsj2STP
"Sun ONE Architecture: Why Care? All the Standards, Technologies, and Products Needed to Support the Pioneering Web Services That Are Being Built Today." By Karen Thure and Frank Lacombe (KnowledgeTree Systems Inc). In Web Services Journal Volume 2 Issue 11 (November 2002), pages 22-25. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/articleprint.cfm?id=389 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#SunONE
Web Services Security, Part II. The Key is Unification." By Lakshmi Hanspal (Quadrasis - Hitachi Computer Products). "In Web Services Journal Volume 2 Issue 11 (November 2002), pages 18-21. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/articleprint.cfm?id=388 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Hanspal2
"Multimodal Browser Extension for MSIE." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200211.html#clip2002-11-12-a
"SchemaViewer 1.0 for W3C XML Schema Documents." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200211.html#clip2002-11-08-a
"IEEE MSE 2002 Track on Web Services and Multimedia." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200211.html#clip2002-11-07-a
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"World Wide Web Consortium Publishes XForms 1.0 as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. W3C's Next-generation Forms Technology Ready for Implementors." http://www.w3.org/2002/11/xforms-pressrelease http://xml.coverpages.org/press2002Q4.html#XFormsCR
"Novell to Provide Visual Application Development Tools Based on Emerging XForms Standard." http://xml.coverpages.org/Novell-XForms200211.html
"PureEdge Announces Support for XForms. Internet Commerce System to Provide Secure 'Wrapper' for Auditable XForms Transactions." http://xml.coverpages.org/PureEdge-XForms200211.html
"Worldwide Sports Data Language Is Launched." http://xml.coverpages.org/SportsML200211.html
"IETF Approves XMPP Working Group. Jabber-Based Open Instant Messaging and Presence Technology on Internet Standards Track." http://xml.coverpages.org/Jabber-XMPP200211.html
"Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Ratified as OASIS Open Standard. Authentication and Authorization Standard Enables Single Sign-On for Web Services." http://xml.coverpages.org/SAMLv10-Ratified.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
IEEE Conference on E-Commerce (CEC 2003). June 24-27, 2003. Newport Beach, California, USA. http://tab.computer.org/tfec/cec03/index.html http://xml.coverpages.org/IEEE-CEC2003-CFP.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#cec2003
Web Services and Multimedia. Special Track, Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE 2002). December 11-13, 2002. Newport Beach Marriott, Newport Beach, California, USA. http://tab.computer.org/tfec/mse2002.html http://mse2002.ece.uci.edu/program.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#mse2002
2002 XML Japan Conference and Developers Day. November 28-30, 2002. Aoyama TEPIA, Tokyo, Japan. http://www.xmljapan.org/ http://www.w3.org/News/2002#item177 http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#XMLJapan2002
W3C Workshop on the Future of P3P. November 12-13, 2002. Dulles Campus of America Online, Dulles, VA, USA. http://www.w3.org/2002/p3p-ws/ http://www.w3.org/2002/p3p-ws/pp/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#W3C-P3P
LRC 2002. eContent Localisation Conference and Industry Showcase. Seventh Annual Localisation Conference. November 12-13, 2002. O'Reilly Hall, University College Dublin, Ireland. http://www.localisation.ie/learning/conferences/2002/index.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#lrc2002
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