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Cover Pages Newsletter
December 31, 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
Connexions Markup Language (CNXML) Used for Modular Instructional Materials.
An interdisciplinary project at Rice University is developing the Connexions Markup Language (CNXML) as part of the Connexions Project. CNXML is a lightweight XML markup language designed primarily for marking up modular educational content. The language is concerned with the structure and semantic content of the information and encourages separation of content and presentation. Connexions is an open-source educational technology project. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-12-31-a.html
GEDCOM XML Specification Supports XML Encoding of Genealogical Data.
A beta version of the "GEDCOM XML Specification Release 6.0" has been published, including a chapter dedicated to the GEDCOM XML Document Type Definition. GEDCOM (Genealogical Data Communication) is widely considered the de facto standard for structured genealogical information, being designed to provide a flexible, uniform format for exchanging computerized genealogical data. GEDCOM XML uses only unidirectional (ID - IDREF) links. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-12-28-a.html
NYSE Market Data Group and FISD Release VRXML Schema for Billing and Reporting.
The Vendor Reporting Extensible Markup Language (VRXML) specification version 1.0 has been published on the VRXML website. This release includes an XML Schema, sample document, and UML diagrams for the VRML conceptual model. VRXML 'XML for Market Data Billing' is an XML-based interchange format and common data dictionary on the fields needed for market data billing, reporting and inventory management. Testing of the specification is underway. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-12-26-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
"XBRL International in 2002 and Beyond." By Walter Hamscher (for the XBRL International Steering Committee). Technology Report. 7 pages. Cross-posted 2002-12-31. http://xml.coverpages.org/XBRL2002.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Hamscher
"Introduction to SALT. Unleashing the Potential" By Hitesh Seth (ikigo, Inc). In XML Journal Volume 3, Issue 12 (December 2002). http://www.sys-con.com/xml/article.cfm?id=549 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Seth
"Digital Signatures and Encryption." By Ari Kermaier and Joe Morgan (Phaos Technology Corp). In XML Journal Volume 3, Issue 12 (December 2002). http://www.sys-con.com/xml/article.cfm?id=544 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Kermaier
"EPA Simplifies Multistate Data Exchange with XML. A Pilot Project" By Casey Hibbard. In XML Journal Volume 3, Issue 12 (December 2002). http://www.sys-con.com/xml/article.cfm?id=546 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Hibbard
"XML Authoring and Editing Tools. Characteristics and Limitations." By Neil Bradley (Rubus). In XML Journal Volume 3, Issue 12 (December 2002). http://www.sys-con.com/xml/article.cfm?id=545 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Bradley
"Avoiding EDI's Mistakes With Web Services Semantic Interoperability." By David Burdett (Director, Product Management, Web Services, Commerce One). In EAI Journal Volume 4, Number 12 (December 2002), pages 8-11. http://www.eaijournal.com/PDF/Burdett.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Burdett
"Pattern Based Analysis of BPEL4WS." By Petia Wohed (Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University/The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Wil M.P. van der Aalst (Department of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands), Marlon Dumas (Centre for Information Technology Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia), and Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede (QUT). Technical Report FIT-TR-2002-04, QUT. 20 pages (with 17 references). http://xml.coverpages.org/AalstBPEL4WS.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Wohed
"Pattern Based Analysis of BPML (and WSCI)." By Wil M.P. van der Aalst, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede, and Petia Wohed. QUT Technical Report, FIT-TR-2002-05. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2002. 27 pages (with 24 references). http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/research/patterns/qut_bpml_rep.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#BPML
"Indexing Open Schemas." By Neal Sample (Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA) and Moshe Shadmon (RightOrder Incorporated). Paper presented at Net.Object Days 2002 (NODe 2002), October 7-10, 2002, Messekongresszentrum, Erfurt, Germany. 20 pages (with 14 references). http://www.netobjectdays.org/pdf/02/papers/ws-webdb/06-Sample.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Shadmon
"Consistency Checking of Financial Derivatives Transactions." By Daniel Dui (University College London, Department of Computer Science), Wolfgang Emmerich (Zuhlke Engineering Ltd), Christian Nentwich (University College London, Department of Computer Science), and Bryan Thal (UBS Warburg). Paper presented at Net.Object Days 2002 (NODe 2002), October 7-10, 2002, Messekongresszentrum, Erfurt, Germany. 18 pages (with 23 references). http://www.netobjectdays.org/pdf/02/papers/node/0170.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Dui
"A Dependency Markup Language for Web Services." By Robert Tolksdorf (Freie Universitaet Berlin, AG Netzbasierte Informationssysteme) [WWW]. Paper presented at Net.Object Days 2002 (NODe 2002), October 7-10, 2002, Messekongresszentrum, Erfurt, Germany. 11 pages. http://www.netobjectdays.org/pdf/02/papers/ws-rsd/1273.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Tolksdorf
"E-Business Process Modeling: The Next Big Step." By Selim Aissi, Pallavi Malu, and Krishnamurthy Srinivasan (Intel Labs). IEEE Computer Volume 35, Number 5 (May 2002), pages 55-62. http://mustard.postech.ac.kr/data/ebpm%20IEEE2002.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Aissi
"A Formal Service Specification for the Internet Open Trading Protocol." By Chun Ouyang, Lars Michael Kristensen, and Jonathan Billington (Computer Systems Engineering Centre, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia Mawson Lakes Campus, SA 5095, Australia). Paper presented at the 23rd International Conference on the Applications and Theory of Petri Nets (ICATPN 2002), Adelaide, Australia, June 24-30, 2002. http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2360/23600352.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#IOTP
"XML for 2003." By Simon St. Laurent. Published on The O'Reilly Network (December 28, 2002). http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2493 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#StLaurent
"Introducing XPath 2.0." By Aaron Skonnard [WWW]. In MSDN Magazine (January 2003). The XML Files. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/01/XMLFiles/default.aspx http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Skonnard
"XML Based Schema Definition for Support of Inter-organizational Workflow." By W.M.P. van der Aalst (College of Business and Administration, University of Colorado; Faculty of Technology and Management, Eindhoven University of Technology) and Akhil Kumar (Database Systems Research Department, Bell Laboratories). October 18, 2002. 39 pages. http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/staff/wvdaalst/workflow/xrl/isr01-5.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#vdAalst
"XRL/Flower: Supporting Inter-Organizational Workflows Using XML/Petri-net Technology." By H.M.W. Verbeek, A. Hirnschall, and W.M.P. van der Aalst (Faculty of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands). Paper presented at Workshop on "Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic Web (WES): Foundations, Models, Architecture, Engineering and Applications", held in conjunction with CAiSE 2002 [The Fourteenth International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering , May 27-28, 2002, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]. 16 pages. http://xml.coverpages.org/Aalst-WSeBT-XRL.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Verbeek
"What MDDL Can Do For You." By James Hartley (Chief Technologist, FISD). In Inside Market Data (December 02, 2002). http://www.mddl.org/res/docs/MDDLIMD_20021202.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Hartley
"Safeguard Your XML-Based Messages: Create Secure Web Services With Apache XML Security." By Tarak Modi. In Java World (December 20, 2002). http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2002/jw-1220-xmlsecurity.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Modi
"A Registry of Assignments Using Ubiquitous Technologies and Careful Policies." By Daniel W. Connolly (World Wide Web Consortium) and Mark Baker. IETF Network Working Group, Internet-Draft. December 20, 2002, expires June 20, 2003. Reference: 'draft-connolly-w3c-accessible- registries-00'. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-connolly-w3c-accessible-registries-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Connolly
"Global XML Standards for Tax Matters Will Benefit Developers." By Charles Abrams and Andrea Di Maio (Gartner Research). Gartner FirstTake Report. Reference: FT-18-9905. 13-December-2002. http://www4.gartner.com/resources/112100/112129/112129.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#AbramsTAXTC
"An Introduction to VRXML." December 17, 2002. By Bryan Palmer (Gemini Systems, Inc). 21 slides. http://www.fisd.net/presentations/20021216general/20021217geminivrxml.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Palmer
"What is RSS?" By Mark Pilgrim. From XML.com. December 18, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Pilgrim
"Reports From XML 2002." By Eric van der Vlist. From XML.com. December 18, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/xml2002.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#vdVlistReports
"From XML-RPC to SOAP: A Migration Guide." By Rich Salz. From XML.com. December 18, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/endpoints.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#SalzMigration
"Generating XML and HTML Using XQuery." By Per Bothner. From XML.com. December 18, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/23/xquery.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Bothner
"A Data Model for Strongly Typed XML." By Dare Obasanjo. From XML.com. December 18, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/19/datamodel.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#ObasanjoTyped
"RELAX NG J2ME Processor." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200212.html#clip2002-12-26-a
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"Dow Jones Newswires Launches Test Feed for Dow Jones NewsPlus. Thomson ONE Will Be the First Platform to Integrate Dow Jones' New XML Feed." http://xml.coverpages.org/DowJonesNewsPlusXML.html
"OpenTravel Alliance Announces Publication of OTA Specification Version 2002B." http://xml.coverpages.org/OTA-Version2002B.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
The Eight International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD). October 22 - 24, 2003, Xiamen University, Xiamen, P.R. China http://2003.cscwid.org/ http://198.20.44.104:4080/cscwd2003/cfp.htm
Net.ObjectDays 2003 (NODe 2003). September 22 - 25, 2003. Messekongresszentrum (Fair and Conference Center), Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. http://www.netobjectdays.org/node03/en/index.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#node2003
24th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets. June 23 - 27, 2003. Eindhoven, The Netherlands. http://www.tue.nl/atpn2003/ http://www.tue.nl/atpn2003/call-for-papers.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#atpn2003
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
OOP 2003. International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming 2003. "Benefiting from the Investment in Object Technology." January 20 - 24, 2003. ICM International Congress Center Munich, Munich, Germany. http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/oop_2003/index.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#oop2003
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