Cover Pages Newsletter February 11, 2003


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                      Cover Pages Newsletter
                        February 11, 2003
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CONTENTS
 Featured News Stories
 Selected Articles and Papers
 Selected from the Press
 Events
 Cover Pages Sponsors
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Featured News Stories
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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

XACML 1.0 Specification Set Approved as an OASIS Standard.
OASIS has announced the successful balloting and approval of the
Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) a new OASIS Open
Standard. Formal language definitions are provided in XML Schema
Definitions (a Policy Schema and a Context Schema ). Chaired by
Carlisle Adams (Entrust) and Hal Lockhart (BEA Systems), the XACML TC
has created this XML specification for expressing policies for
information access over the Internet.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-02-11-a.html

Happy Birthday XML.
We commemorate the progress of meta-markup in modern times on two
special days: October 15, 1986 marked the official publication of "ISO
8879: Standard Generalized Markup Language", while February 10, 1998
saw the official publication of SGML's (hitherto) most successful
profile, the W3C Recommendation "Extensible Markup Language (XML)
1.0". Dave Hollander and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen of W3C have written an
essay offering retrospects.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-02-10-a.html

OGC Announces OpenGIS Geography Markup Language Implementation
Specification (GML 3).
The Open GIS Consortium has released "OpenGIS Geography Markup
Language (GML) Implementation Specification" V3.0 featuring a new
modular design. GML is an XML grammar written in XML Schema for the
modelling, transport, and storage of geographic information; it
provides a variety of kinds of objects for describing geography
including features, coordinate reference systems, geometry, topology,
time, units of measure and generalized values.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-02-06-c.html

OAGI Releases Open Applications Group Integration Specification
Version 8.1-Beta-1.
The Open Applications Group (OAGI) has announced the release of OAGIS
Version 8.1-Beta-1. OAGIS BODs (Business Object Documents) are defined
using XML Schema and support a common horizontal message architecture.
V8.1 has 430 BODs and incorporates refinements in modeling of business
messages. It makes full use of the ebXML CoreComponent Specifications
and includes full support for the UN/CEFACT Core Components Technical
Specification (CCTS) version 1.90.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-02-06-b.html

OASIS XML Common Biometric Format Moves Toward Standardization.
The "XML Common Biometric Format" specification from the OASIS XML
Common Biometric Format TC has been announced as an OASIS Committee
Specification and is promoted for public review. Biometrics are
automated methods of recognizing a person based on physiological or
behavioral characteristics. XCBF defines cryptographic messages
represented in XML markup for the secure collection, distribution, and
processing of biometric information.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-02-06-a.html

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Selected Articles and Papers
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Selections of abstracted and annotated articles/clippings at:
http://xml.coverpages.org/articles.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings.html

"BEA Adding Web Services to Tuxedo. Transaction Processing Software
Being Upgraded." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (February 10, 2003).
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/10/HNtuxedo_1.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Tuxedo
"HTML to Formatting Objects (FO) Conversion Guide. Use These XSLT
Templates to Speed Your Conversions of HTML Elements to FO and Thence
to PDF." By Doug Tidwell (developerWorks' Cyber Evangelist, IBM
developerWorks). From IBM developerWorks, XML zone. February 2003.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-xslfo2app/
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Tidwell
"Business Layers, Netegrity Spur SPML. SPML Demo Targeted for RSA
Conference." By Brian Fonseca. In InfoWorld (February 11, 2003).
Identity Management for the Service Provisioning Markup Language
(SPML).
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/11/HNbusinesslayerssplm_1.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#FonsecaSPML
"Netegrity Releases SAML Agent. Software Secures User ID." By Paul
Roberts. In InfoWorld (February 10, 2003). Netegrity and Oblix
announce support for SAML in identity management software.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/10/HNneteg_1.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Roberts
".Net Patent Could Stifle Standards Effort." By Lisa M. Bowman. In
CNET News.com (February 10, 2003). Microsoft patent application for a
set of .NET-related API functions.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-984052.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Bowman
"Making Way for 3G Offerings." By Carmen Nobel. In eWEEK (February 10,
2003). HP to demo Mobile Service Delivery Platform (MSDP) at 3GSM
World Congress.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,878702,00.asp
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#MSDP
"Putting Liberty to Work. Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0 Builds Powerful
Cross-Domain Authentication on LibertyAlliance Specification." Review
from InfoWorld Test Center (February 7, 2003).
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/07/06plsunone_1.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#SunIdentServer
"Microsoft Christens XDocs Application 'InfoPath'. Application Aims to
Help End-Users Edit Forms Using XML." By James Niccolai. In InfoWorld
(February 10, 2003).
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/10/HNinfopath_1.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#InfoPath
"Managing Enumerations in W3C XML Schemas." By Anthony Coates. From
XML.com (February 05, 2003). Suggests strategies for handling
enumerations in schemas, accounting for the volatility of each
vocabulary.
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/05/wxs-enum.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Coates
"BrownSauce: An RDF Browser." By Damian Steer. From XML.com (February
05, 2003). Discussion of the BrownSauce RDF browser, a SourceForge
Project.
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/05/brownsauce.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Steer
"XSLT, Browsers, and JavaScript." By Bob DuCharme. From XML.com
(February 05, 2003). How to integrate JavaScript into the result of
XSLT transformations.
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/05/tr.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#DuCharmeJS
"Is GML Only for Internet GIS?" By Mark Prins (CARIS Geographic
Informations Systems BV). In Directions Magazine (February 07, 2003).
Growing support for Geography Markup Language, recently updated to
version 3.0.
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=280
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Prins
"XML Serialization in the .NET Framework." By Dare Obasanjo (Microsoft
Corporation). In Microsoft MSDN Library (January 23, 2003).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnexxml/html/xml01202003.asp
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Obasanjo
"Executable UML: Diagrams for the Future." By Gerry Boyd. In DexV.com
WebBuilder (February 05, 2003).
http://www.webbuildermag.com/uml/Article/10717
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Boyd
"E-Authentication Waits For Rest Of The Pack." By Dipka Bhambhani. In
(February 05, 2003).
http://www.gcn.com/22_2/news/20939-1.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Bhambhani
"Web Services Market Up For Grabs." By Dawn Kawamoto and Mike
Ricciuti. In CNET News.com (February 07, 2003).
http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/systems/0,39001153,39112820,00.htm
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#GartnerWS
"Liberty Alliance Releases ID Management Specification. White Paper
Explains Possible Interoperability." By Paul Roberts. In InfoWorld
(February 07, 2003). White paper on 'Identity Systems and Liberty
Specification Version 1.1 Interoperability.'
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/07/HNlibertyall_1.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#RobertsLiberty
"An Introduction to Using XLIFF. Technical Aspects and Implementation
of XML Localisation Interchange File Format." By Yves Savourel (RWS
Group). In MultiLingual Computing and Technology #54, Volume 14, Issue
2 (March 2003), pages 28-34.
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Savourel
"Another Step Closer to B2B." By John K. Waters. In Application
Development Trends (February 05, 2003).
http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7273
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Waters
"Python: Language of Choice for EAI." By Aron Trauring (CEO, Zoteca).
In EAI Journal Volume 5, Number 1 (January 2003), pages 43-46.
http://www.eaijournal.com/PDF/PythonTrauring.pdf
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Trauring
"Standards Muddy 'Open' Waters." By Ed Scannell, Heather Havenstein,
and Tom Sullivan. In InfoWorld (February 05, 2003).
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/03/05plopenclosed_1.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Scannell
"Interwoven Unties MetaTagger From TeamSite." By [Seybold Bulletin
Staff, edited by Patricia Evans]. In The Bulletin: Seybold News and
Views On Electronic Publishing Volume 8, Number 18 (February 05,
2003).
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Interwoven
"Transactions and Web Services." By Boris Lublinsky (CNA Insurance).
In EAI Journal Volume 5, Number 1 (February 05, 2003), pages 35-42. A
comparative study of Web Services Transactions (WS-Transaction) and
Business Transaction Protocol (BTP).
http://www.eaijournal.com/PDF/TWSLublinsky.pdf
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Lublinsky
"What the Hell is IBM Information Integrator?" By Phil Howard. In The
Register [IT Analysis]. (February 05, 2003). IBM's new products based
upon Xperanto.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29188.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Howard
"XML Matters: reStructuredText. A Light, Powerful Document Markup." By
David Mertz, Ph.D. (Floating Signifier, Gnosis Software, Inc). From
IBM developerWorks, XML zone. February 2003. reStructuredText is one
of the official source formats for Python documentation.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-matters24/index.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200302.html#Mertz

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Selected from the Press
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at:
http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html

"BEA Announces Web Services Release of BEA Tuxedo. Integration with
BEA Platform Extends Tuxedo's Service-Oriented Architecture to the Web
and Leverages Best of J2EE."
http://xml.coverpages.org/BEA-Tuxedo.html
"Netegrity and Business Layers to Demonstrate Support for Service
Provisioning Markup Language (SPML). Vendors Are First to Exhibit XML
Based Solution for Identity Management."
http://xml.coverpages.org/SPML-Support20030211.html
"Oblix Delivers Comprehensive SAML Integration to Provide Advanced
Identity Management and Web Access Control. Oblix NetPoint 6.1 Enables
Seamless User Authentication and Authorization Across Corporate
Extranets Via Secure XML-Based Web Services Standard."
http://xml.coverpages.org/OblixNetPoint61.html
"Netegrity Delivers SAML Affiliate Agent to Lower Cost and Complexity
of Federated Security Across Partner Sites.  Enables Companies to
Securely Partner in Order to Provide Enhanced Services to Users."
http://xml.coverpages.org/NetegrityAAgent.html
"Microsoft InfoPath (Formerly "XDocs") Supports Healthcare XML Data
Standard.  Microsoft's Information-Gathering Application to Be
Featured in Upcoming Solution by Amicore."
http://xml.coverpages.org/InfoPathAnn.html
"OASIS Members Form Emergency Management Technical Committee.
Consortium to Advance Incident Preparedness and Response."
http://xml.coverpages.org/EmergencyTC.html
"Interwoven MetaTagger 3.5 Dramatically Enhances Effectiveness of
Enterprise Portals with Highly Relevant Content. Metadata Platform Now
Integrates with Any Content Source to Enhance Key Portal Components
Like Search and Personalization, Boosting Productivity and Lowering
Support Costs."
http://xml.coverpages.org/MetaTaggerV35.html
"Computas Announces Major Enhancements to Its Metis Modeling Toolset
for Building Enterprise Architecture Models in Federal Agencies. New
Metis Version 3.3 Software Provides Web-enabled Modeling Solution for
federal CIOs, Strategic Planners, and Systems Integrators Implementing
e-Government Mandates."
http://xml.coverpages.org/MetisXMLModeling.html

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Events
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Selected references from the events calendar at:
http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html

IUC 23.  Twenty-third International Unicode Conference.  "Unicode,
Internationalization and the Web: The Global Connection."  March 24 -
28, 2003.  Marriott Prague Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic.
http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc23/index.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#iuc23

First OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2003). March 20 - 21, 2003.
University of Hamburg, Germany.
http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/
http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#OOoCon2003

First Asian FIX Conference. "The Life Cycle of a Trade: Achieving a
Seamless Front to Back Process Utilising FIX and STP."  March 20,
2003. Conrad Hotel, Hong Kong.
http://www.asianfix2003.com/index.asp
http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#asiaFIX2003

Conference on Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs
in the U.S. and EU. March 17 - 19, 2003.  Cafritz Conference Center,
The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
http://www.egovos.org/
http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#openSourceGov

13th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering.
RIDE 2003.  "Multi-lingual Information Management."  March 10 - 11,
2003. Hyderabad, India.
http://www.iiit.net/conferences/ride2003.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#ride2003

XML Web Services One 2003.  March 3 - 6, 2003.  Santa Clara Marriott,
Santa Clara, CA, USA.
http://www.xmlconference.com/santaclara/
http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#wsONE2003

W3C XForms Working Group Implementation Workshop.  February 27 - 28,
2003. Novell Office, Waltham, MA, USA.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2003/ImplementationWorkshop/Overview.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#xforms2003

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