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December 17, 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
W3C Publishes User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 as a Recommendation.
The "User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" specification has become a W3C Recommendation, supported by "Techniques for User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0." UAAG 1.0 addresses accessibility issues for users with visual, auditory, physical, cognitive, and neurological disabilities through device-independent, multimodal design. User agent types include HTML and XHTML browsers, multimedia players, graphics viewers, and assistive technologies. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-12-17-b.html
US National Coffee Association Creates XML Schemas for Global Trade.
In the interest of paperwork reduction, support of innovative trading relationships, and expeditious delivery of fresh coffee, the National Coffee Association of America has created XML Traffic Documents for the global coffee industry. ExImWare, Inc. and NCA have developed a set of XML formatted e-commerce documents for the Association's four coffee industry Standard Traffic Documents: Shipping Advice, Sample Order, Delivery Order, and Invoice. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-12-17-a.html
Creative Commons Project Offers RDF-Based Licenses for Rights Expression.
The Creative Commons Project has announced its first official product in the form of machine-readable copyright licenses which support a distributable, royalty-free, legally clear, XML-based mechanism for digital rights expression. Creative Commons licenses allow copyright holders to easily inform others that their works are free for copying and other uses under specific conditions. RDF and Dublin Core are used in the markup representations. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-12-16-a.html
Sun Microsystems Contributes OpenOffice.org XML File Format Specification to TC.
A posting from Michael Brauer (Sun Micro) to the OASIS Open Office XML Format TC contains the OpenOffice.org XML file format specification and DTD files that Sun Microsystems, Inc. will contribute to the OASIS TC. The contribution will be discussed at the TC's first meeting on December 16, 2002. The XML specification consists of a 571-page "OpenOffice.org XML File Format - Technical Reference Manual" and 22 modularized XML DTD files. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-12-11-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
"W3C Finalizes Disability Guidelines." By Paul Festa. In CNET News.com (December 17, 2002). http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978272.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#FestaUAAG
"Standardizing VoiceXML Generation Tools." By David L. Thomson. In VoiceXML Review (December 2002). http://www.voicexmlreview.org/Dec2002/features/standard_vxml.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Thomson
"Enhancing VoiceXML Application Performance By Caching." By Dave Burke. In VoiceXML Review (December 2002). http://www.voicexmlreview.org/Dec2002/features/vxml_app_performance.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Burke
"OASIS Seeks Web Services Standards for Language Translation." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (December 17, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/17/021217hnwslanguage.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#translationWS
"XBRL: Still A Ways Away From Saving the Day." By Eileen Colkin Cuneo. In InformationWeek (December 17, 2002). http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021217S0002 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#XBRL
"Creative Types: A Lot in Common." By Kendra Mayfield. In Wired News (December 16, 2002). [RDF for rights expression] http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56704,00.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Mayfield
"Expressing Simple Dublin Core in RDF/XML." Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Recommendation, Approved 2002-10-25. Edited by Dave Beckett (Institute for Learning and Research Technology - ILRT, University of Bristol), Eric Miller (W3C), and Dan Brickley (W3C/ILRT). Latest version URL: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-xml/. Draft issued 2002-07-31. http://dublincore.org/documents/2002/07/31/dcmes-xml/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#dcmes-xml
"'Office 11' for Developers: Build Solutions with XML, Smart Tags, and Visual Studio." From Microsoft 'Office XP for Developers'. December 09, 2002 or later. http://www.microsoft.com/office/developer/preview/default.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Obasanjo
"Web Services Security Core Specification." Produced by the OASIS Web Services Security TC (WSS). Working Draft version 08. 12- December-2002. Document identifier: WSS-Core-08. 56 pages. Edited by Phillip Hallam-Baker (VeriSign), Chris Kaler (Microsoft), Ronald Monzillo (Sun), and Anthony Nadalin (IBM). http://xml.coverpages.org/WSS-Core-08-1212M.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#WSSCore08
"Microsoft Office Embraces XML." By Eric van der Vlist. From XMLhack (December 16, 2002). http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1839 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#vdVlist
"Increased Attendance at IDEAlliance XML Conference & Exposition 2002." By Dianne Kennedy. Special Report from the IDEAlliance XML Files (December 2002). With photos. http://www.idealliance.org/xmlfiles/xml2002/xml2002.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Kennedy
"Security Audit and Access Accountability Message Data Definitions for Healthcare Applications." By Glen Marshall (Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services). IETF Internet Draft. Reference: 'draft-marshall- security-audit-00.txt'. December 2002, expires April 2003. XML Schema in Section 6, pages 24-32. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-marshall-security-audit-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Marshall
"A Quantitative Analysis of Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) Usage in Data Providers Registered with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)." By Jewel Ward (Graduate Student, The School of Information and Library Science, Univ ersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; WWW). November, 2002. 68 pages. http://www.foar.net/research/mp/Jewel_Ward-MPaper-November2002.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Ward
"Microsoft Highlights Security in Web Services Development Pack." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (December 16, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/16/021216hnwse.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#KrillWSE
"Programming with Web Services Enhancements 1.0 for Microsoft .NET." By Tim Ewald (Microsoft Corporation). From Microsoft MSDN Library. December 2002. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/progwse.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Ewald
"A Question of Identity: Passport, Liberty, and the Single Sign-On Race." By Amit Asaravala. In New Architect Volume 8, Issue 01 (January 2003), pages 22-24. http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/na0103b/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#AsaravalaSSO
"Instant Update: Making Your Data And Spreadsheets Web Viewable Through MVC." By Paul Sholtz. In New Architect Volume 8, Issue 01 (January 2003), pages 26-29. http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/na0103c/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Sholtz
"How Open is the New Office?" By Joe Wilcox. In CNET News.com (December 16, 2002). http://news.com.com/2100-1001-977880.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Wilcox
"Generic Namespace Dispatch Behavior for XML." By Mark Baker (Idokorro Mobile, Inc). Reference posted to XML-DEV. June 21, 2002 or later. http://www.markbaker.ca/2002/01/draft-baker-generic-xmlns-dispatch-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Baker
"Intercommunication between XSD and ASN.1." By Paul Thorpe (OSS Nokalva, Inc). Abstract from the XML 2002 Conference presentation, Baltimore. December 2002. http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml02/dx_xml02/papers/06-00-15/06-00-15.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Thorpe
"Delivery Context Overview for Device Independence." Edited by Roger Gimson (HP). W3C Working Draft 13-December-2002. First public working draft. Latest version URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/di-dco/. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-di-dco-20021213/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Gimson
"XML Security Time Stamping Protocol." By Axelle Apvrille and Vincent Girier (Storage Technology European Operations, Toulouse, France). Presented at ISSE 2002 (Informations Security Solutions Europe, Paris Disneyland, October 2-4, 2002). http://xml.coverpages.org/ApvrilleTStamp.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Apvrille
"WS-Security Authentication and Digital Signatures with Web Services Enhancements." Web Services Enhancements 1.0 for Microsoft .NET. By Matt Powell (Microsoft Corporation). Microsoft MSDN Library. December 2002. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwssecur/html/wssecauthwse.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Powell
"Datatypes for XML Topic Maps (XTM): Using XML Schema Datatypes." By Murray Altheim (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, UK). Draft version 1.4 2002/12/12. Topic map available in XML format, also zipped. http://kmi.open.ac.uk/psi/datatypes.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Altheim
"Information Technology: A Quick-Reference List of Organizations and Standards for Digital Rights Management." Prepared by Gordon E. Lyon (Convergent Information Systems Division, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology - NIST). NIST Special Publication 500-241. October 2002. 20 pages. http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/docs/NIST241assm.9oct.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#NIST-RDM
"Novell Rolls Out UDDI Server." By Cathleen Moore. In InfoWorld (December 11, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/11/021211hnnoveluddi.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Novell-UDDI
"IBM, BEA Take Royalty-Free Stance on BPEL4WS." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (December 11, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/11/021211hnibmbpel.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Sutor-BPEL4WS
"IBM Backs Royalty Free Approach on Web Services Choreography." By Gavin Clarke. In Computer Business Review Online (December 12, 2002). http://www.cbronline.com/cbr.nsf/latestnews/DA74E6C45E4EB63980256C8D0016020B?OpenDocument http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#ClarkeBPEL4WS
"The .NET Schema Object Model." By Priya Lakshminarayanan. From XML.com December 04, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/som.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Lakshminarayanan
"Using XSLT to Assist Regression Testing." By Sal Mangano. From XML.com December 04, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/xsltcookbook.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Mangano
"Normalizing XML, Part 2." By Will Provost. From XML.com December 04, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/normalizing.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Provost
"SVG's Past and Promising Future." By Antoine Quint. From XML.com December 04, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/svg.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Quint
"Feds Eye XML, Web Services." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (December 11, 2002). http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,760081,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Haycock
"Corel XMetal 4 Adds ActiveX Support." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (December 10, 2002). http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,758131,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#TaftCorel
"XMPP Core." By Jeremie Miller [WWW] and Peter Saint-Andre [WWW] (Jabber Software Foundation). IETF Network Working Group, Internet- Draft. December 06, 2002, expires June 6, 2003. Reference: 'draft- ietf-xmpp-core-00'. XML DTDs/Schemas in appendices. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-xmpp-core-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#XMPP-Core
"XMPP Instant Messaging." By Jeremie Miller [WWW] and Peter Saint- Andre [WWW] (Jabber Software Foundation). IETF Network Working Group, Internet-Draft. December 06, 2002, expires June 6, 2003. Reference: 'draft-ietf-xmpp-im-00'. Appendices present 4 XML DTDs/Schemas. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-xmpp-im-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#XMPP-IM
"JEP-0054: vcard-temp." By Peter Saint-Andre [WWW] (Jabber Software Foundation). JEP Number: 0054. Version 0.2. 2002-11-06. On vCard-XML format. http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0054.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#JEP-vCard
"XML Europe 2003 Call for Papers." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200212.html#clip2002-12-16-a
"XACML Specification Submitted to OASIS Membership for Approval as OASIS Standard." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200212.html#clip2002-12-13-b
"Sun xmlroff XSL Formatter." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200212.html#clip2002-12-13-a
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"OpenHSF v8.0 Specification Released by the OpenHSF Advisory Council. First Membership-driven Extension for Document/Assembly Structure Included." http://xml.coverpages.org/OpenHSF-v80.html
"World Wide Web Consortium Issues User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. Third in Set of Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Guidelines Helps Developers Make Accessible Browsers and Multimedia Players." http://www.w3.org/2002/12/uaag10-pressrelease http://xml.coverpages.org/press2002Q4.html#w3cuaag10
"OASIS Members to Develop Web Services Standard for Translation. DataPower, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Others Collaborate on Localization Specification." http://xml.coverpages.org/TranslationWS-OASIS.html
"Creative Commons Unveils Machine-Readable Copyright Licenses." http://xml.coverpages.org/CCommons-Licenses.html
"Microsoft Delivers Latest Developer Tools for Building Advanced, More Secure Web Services. Web Services Enhancements 1.0 Available for Visual Studio .NET. Developers, With Support From Companies Such as F5 Networks, WestGlobal and WRQ." http://xml.coverpages.org/Microsoft-WSE10.html
"PostX Announces Plan to Support and Integrate New Liberty Alliance v1.1 Specification for Federated Identity Management Standard. Leading Secure Messaging Company first to Embrace Powerful New Open Standard. Also Announces Support of SAML v1.0 (Security Assertion Markup Language)." http://xml.coverpages.org/PostX-SupportsLibSpecsv11.html
"OSS Nokalva Announces XML Support." http://xml.coverpages.org/OSS-ASN1-Tools.html
"Veridocs Announces Beta Release of XMLdocs at XML 2002. Small to Mid- sized Firms to Benefit from Affordable XML Content Management Solution. Beta Release Available Free Through January 2003." http://xml.coverpages.org/Veridocs-XMLdocsAnn.html
"Novell Adds Secure Identity Management to Key Web Services Standard." http://xml.coverpages.org/Novell-UDDI200212.html
"Vordel to Launch New XML Security Suite for Distributed Security and Management of Web Services." http://xml.coverpages.org/VordelSecureV20.html
"Corel to Preview New Tools for Smart Content Creation at XML 2002. Company to Unveil New Technologies for Creating XML and SVG Applications." http://xml.coverpages.org/CorelSmartContent2002.html
"WfMC Announces Release of Workflow Standard XML Process Definition Language (XPDL 1.0)." http://xml.coverpages.org/XPDLv10-Announce.html
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Events --------------------------------------------------------------------
Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
SVG Open 2003. July 13 - 19, 2003. Vancouver, BC, Canada. http://www.svgopen.org/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#SVG-Open2003
EEMA 2003. EEMA Sixteenth Annual Conference. "Management and Compatibility of Web Services: The Impact on Your Business." June 16 - 18, 2002. Prague, Czech Republic. https://www.eema.org/eema2003.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#eema2003
XML Europe 2003 Conference & Exposition. "Powering the Information Society." May 5 - 8, 2003. Hilton London Metropole, London, UK. http://www.xmleurope.com/2003/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#xmlEurope2003 http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200212.html#clip2002-12-16-a
WS-I Community Meeting Spring 2003. March 18 - 20, 2003. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. mailto:info@ws-i.org
UN/CEFACT Forum 2003. March 10 - 14, 2003. Hilton San Diego Mission Valley, San Diego, CA, USA. http://www.disa.org/uncefact.cfm http://www.unece.org/cefact_meetings/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#UN-CEFACT2003
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. HICSS-36. January 6 - 9, 2003. Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Island of Hawaii, USA. http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS36/apahome36.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#hicss36
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