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Cover Pages Newsletter
April 08, 2003
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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
AIIM Publishes Draft XML Standard for Interchange of Document Images and Related Metadata.
The Association of Information and Image Management (AIIM) has announced the ballot results for a draft specification "Extensible Markup Language (XML) for the Interchange of Document Images and Related Metadata." The draft standard specifies methods for using XML for the interchange of metadata about image files, and the image files themselves. Usage scenarios include archiving, exchange between repositories, and display. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-04-07-b.html
Adobe Announces XML Architecture for Document Creation, Collaboration, and Process Management.
As part of its Adobe Acrobat 6.0 product line rollout, Adobe Systems has announced a new XML architecture which enables intelligent documents to extend the value of enterprise systems. This comprehensive XML architecture supports end-to-end document processes -- document creation, collaboration, and process management across the enterprise. Adobe will publish the XML architecture specification and deliver an XML developer toolkit. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-04-07-a.html
OASIS Forms Electronic Procurement Standardization Technical Committee.
An OASIS Electronic Procurement Standardization (EPS) TC has been formed. The TC will gather and analyze requirements for electronic procurement standards and processes, seeking to guide the coordinated development of global e-procurement standardization. Gaps will be identified and new EP standards recommended as needed. The TC will attempt to establish broad global representation from a cross section of governments and industries. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-04-04-b.html
W3C Web Ontology Working Group Publishes Last Call Working Drafts.
W3C has released five Last Call Working Draft specifications for the OWL Web Ontology Language 1.0, together with an updated Test Cases document. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. It is intended to provide a 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/ni2003-04-04-a.html
OASIS Forms TC for Application Vulnerability Description Language (AVDL).
OASIS is forming a TC to develop an Application Vulnerability Description Language (AVDL). The TC's goal is to create an XML definition for exchange of information relating to security vulnerabilities of applications exposed to networks. The AVDL TC will focus on defining a schema that enables easy communication concerning security vulnerabilities between various security entities that address HTTP application-level protocol security. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-04-02-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
"Texas Counties Pilot Online Court Filing System." By Dibya Sarkar. In Federal Computer Week (April 08, 2003). Two Texas counties are currently piloting a Web-based filing system for state and local courts that will be jointly developed by BearingPoint Inc. and Microsoft Inc; the service uses the LegalXML (Extensible Markup Language) standard schema and Web services standards like SOAP. http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2003/0407/web-texas-04-08-03.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Sarkar
"W3C Advances Semantic Web Drafts." By Paul Festa. In CNET News.com (April 08, 2003). Aiming to rehabilitate both the technology and the image of its Semantic Web initiative, the Web's leading standards group has issued a number of updates, including five working drafts for the Web Ontology Language (OWL). http://news.com.com/2100-1032-995916.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#FestaOWL
"Driving Content Management with Digital Rights Management." By Renato Iannella and Peter Higgs. White Paper. IPR Systems Pty Ltd. April 09, 2003. 9 pages. The functions of Content Management and Digital Rights Management systems are often confused in the market; in many cases the CM functions and the DRM functions have high dependencies, such as the protection of the content at the consumer end of the transaction. http://www.iprsystems.com/whitepapers/CM-DRM-WP.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#IannellaCM
"AIIM Zeroes in On Content Control. Vignette, Atomz, FatWire Roll Out Offerings." By Cathleen Moore. In InfoWorld (April 08, 2003). Content management wares took center stage at the AIIM 2003 Conference in New York , as vendors unveiled offerings designed to pull together content, portal, and process management capabilities. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/08/HNaiimwrap_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#MooreAIIM
"Sun Wastes Little Time Preparing WS-I 'Wish List'." By Vance McCarthy. In Integration Developer News (April 07, 2003). Sun Microsystems is wasting little time mapping out their agenda for contributing to the WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization), a multi-vendor web services group of more than 160+ vendors co-founded by Microsoft and IBM. http://idevnews.com/IntegrationNews.asp?ID=60 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#McCarthySun
"Fast XSLT." By Steve Punte. From XML.com (April 02, 2003). The widespread adoption of the W3C's XML transformation language has led to a demand for fast, conformant XSLT processors; one way of achieving speed is to pre-compile XSLT stylesheets. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/02/xsltc.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#PunteXSLT
"Conditional Execution." By Bob DuCharme. From XML.com (April 02, 2003). In this month'sTransforming XML column, DuCharme explains the use of the conditional constructs xsl:if and xsl:choose in order to selectively execute part of a stylesheet. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/02/trxml.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#DuCharmeConditional
"XML Isn't Too Hard." By Kendall Grant Clark. From XML.com (April 02, 2003). The XML-Deviant column this week returns to the controversy sparked by Tim Bray's claim that XML was 'too hard for programmers'. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/02/deviant.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#KGClarkProgXML
"KXML: A Great Find for XML Parsing in J2ME." By Robert Cadena. From DevX.com (April 04, 2003). Enhydra's kXML is a great little XML parser with a small footprint, making it perfect for J2ME apps. http://www.devx.com/xml/Article/11773 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Cadena
"Making Progress in Web Services." By Lisa Vaas. In eWEEK (April 08, 2003). The Progress Company plans to announce OpenEdge, a development platform for creating applications that consume and generate Web services, at its annual users' conference next week in Boston. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1010218,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#VaasProgress
"Will the Real Reliable Messaging Please Stand Up? A.K.A. WS- Reliability, WS-ReliableMessaging, or WS-ReliableConundrum?" By Dave Chappell (Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software). Sonic Technical Report (Position Paper). April 02, 2003. 9 pages. The need for open standards defining reliable Web services has become so widely recognized that three competing sets of SOAP-based reliable messaging specifications have been proposed. http://xml.coverpages.org/Chappell-WSRelSOAP.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#ChappellRMConundrum
"Web Service Reliability." Nokia Technical Report. 18 pages. Reliability involves guaranteed delivery. duplicate elimination, ordering, crash tolerance, and state synchronization. http://xml.coverpages.org/NokiaWSReliability.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Payrits
"XML and Java Technologies: Data Binding Part 3: JiBX Architecture." By Dennis M. Sosnoski (President, Sosnoski Software Solutions, Inc). From IBM developerWorks, XML zone. April 01, 2003. Enterprise Java technology expert Dennis Sosnoski gives a guided tour of his JiBX framework for XML data binding in Java applications. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-databd3/index.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Sosnoski3
"BEA Defends Its Turf." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (April 04, 2003). BEA Systems Inc. came out swinging after a week of taking hits from competitors. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1001681,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#TaftBEA
"Degrees of Freedom: Virtuoso Universal Server 3.0 Expands the Horizons of Data Access, Integration, and Delivery." By Jon Udell. In InfoWorld Issue 12 (March 24, 2003), pages 1, 19-20. Virtuoso Universal Server 3.0 Beta is enterprise middleware that unifies SQL, text, XML, and object data; it will play an increasingly vital role in delivering business data to users. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/21/12virtuoso_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#UdellVirtuoso
"Acrobat 6: Long-Awaited Features for Professional Publishers." By Bernd Zipper. In The Seybold Report (April 8, 2003). Special Article. ISSN: 1533-9211. 12 pages. Adobe has introduced the latest version of Acrobat, which has grown into a whole family of software products; new functions in Acrobat and in PDF files naturally require an extension of the PDF language specification. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Zipper
"XML Development with Eclipse." By Pawel Leszek (Independent software consultant). From IBM developerWorks, Open source projects. April 8, 2003. This article provides an overview of how the Eclipse Platform supports XML development. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecxml/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Leszek
"XBRL: Standardizing Financial Data." By Amy Rogers. In CRN (April 04, 2003). In the wake of accounting scandals, Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), an offshoot of XML, promises to help make public companies more consistent in the way their financial data is transmitted, reported and presented to investors. http://www.crn.com/sections/Features/Features.asp?RSID=CRN&ArticleID=40924 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Rogers
"A Quick Introduction to OWL Web Ontology Language." By Roger L. Costello and David B. Jacobs. OWL Tutorial from The MITRE Corporation, sponsored by DARPA. http://www.xfront.com/owl-quick-intro/sld001.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Costello
"Adobe Updates Acrobat for the XML Era." By Tony Smith. In The Register (April 07, 2003). Adobe has melded its Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML, updating its Acrobat family of PDF creation tools to version 6.0 in the process. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30121.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#TSmith
"Adobe Divides to Conquer." By David Becker. In CNET News.com (April 06, 2003). "Adobe Systems is aiming to make its Acrobat electronic publishing software a standard business tool with new versions of the product that target different classes of officer workers. http://news.com.com/2100-1012-995639.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#BeckerAdobe
"Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition." Edited by Luc Van Tichelen (ScanSoft). W3C Working Draft 01-April-2003. Latest version URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/semantic-interpretation/. Updates the WD of 2001-11-16. The document defines the process of Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition and the syntax and semantics of semantic interpretation tags that can be added to speech recognition grammars. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-semantic-interpretation-20030401/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#VanTichelen
"EPP Internationalized Domain Name Mapping." By Edmon Chung and Henry Tong (Neteka). IETF Internet Draft. Reference: 'draft-chung-idnop-epp- idn-00.txt'. April 2003. 22 pages. Describes an Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) mapping for the provisioning and management of Internationalized Internet domain names stored in a shared central repository. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-chung-idnop-epp-idn-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#ChungEPP
"Extensible Provisioning Protocol." By Scott Hollenbeck (VeriSign Global Registry Services, VeriSign, Inc). IETF Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet-Draft. Reference: 'draft-ietf-provreg- epp-09.txt'. March 11, 2003, expires September 11, 2003. 74 pages. The document describes specifications for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) version 1.0, an XML text protocol that permits multiple service providers to perform object provisioning operations using a shared central object repository. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-provreg-epp-09.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Hollenbeck
"Business Process with BPEL4WS: Learning BPEL4WS, Part 6. Correlation, Fault Handling, and Compensation." By Rania Khalaf and William A. Nagy (Software Engineers, IBM TJ Watson Research Center). From IBM developerWorks, Web Services. April 2003. The article covers the advanced properties of the BPEL4WS language that are essential to the definition and execution of a business process. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-bpelcol6/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#KhalafBPEL4WS
"Grady Booch Polishes His Crystal Ball." By Michael O'Connell and Grady Booch. From IBM developerWorks. April 3, 2003. Rational Software's Grady Booch (now IBM) looks at software development's past, present, and future. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/i-booch/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Booch
"IBM to Roll Out Raft of Apps, Tools. Big Blue's Developer Conference Kicks Off Next Week." By Ed Scannell. In InfoWorld (April 04, 2003). At the developerWorksLive conference IBM will roll out Version 5 of its WebSphere SDK For Web Services and announce a new alphaWorks licensing program. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/04/HNdeveloperworks_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#ScannellIBM
"Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification Version 1.0." Edited by Ray Whitmer (Netscape/AOL). W3C Candidate Recommendation 31- March-2003. Produced as part of the W3C DOM Activity. Latest version URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-XPath. W3C has announced the advancement of this specification to Candidate Recommendation; the document provides access to a DOM tree using XPath 1.0. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20030331 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#DOM3-XPath
"Messaging Key to Web Services, CTOs Say. Reliable Messaging Considered At Least As Important As Security." By Tom Sullivan. In InfoWorld (April 04, 2003). Although security and orchestration often garner the most attention, several executives at a CTO forum cited standards-based messaging as equally important to the success of Web services. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/04/14ctoforum_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Sullivan
Interactivity, Personalization Expand the Limits of Print." By Andreas Weber (DigitaldruckForum). In The Seybold Report Volume 2, Number 24 (March 31, 2003). ISSN: 1533-9211. No longer chasing the elusive 'run of one,' interactive variable printing is finding its niche' at the PODi conference in Rome, Personalized Print Markup Language (PPML) came of age. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#WeberPPML
"Rights-Expression Language Is Key to Interoperability. [Digital Rights Management.]" By Bill Rosenblatt (President, GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies). In The Seybold Report Volume 2, Number 24 (March 31, 2003). ISSN: 1533-9211. Most of the pain points concerning digital rights are essentially political and cultural; but a few are technical, such as finding a standard method for describing exactly what rights are conveyed, for what price and under what restrictions. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#RosenblattTSR
"IBM Fortifying XML Query Language. Big Blue Partnering with Microsoft, Oracle to Boost Spec." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (April 04, 2003). IBM is preparing to advance the XQuery XML query language on two fronts: by submitting with Microsoft a test suite for industry consideration and by working with Oracle on a Java API for the language. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/03/HNxquery_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#KrillXQuery
"Database Heavyweights Weigh In On XML Standard." By Lisa Vaas. In eWEEK (April 04, 2003). A new XQuery test suite from IBM and Microsoft is considered an important milestone in finalizing a W3C standard for querying XML data. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1000364,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Vaas
"XPath Containment in the Presence of Disjunction, DTDs, and Variables." By Frank Neven (University of Limburg, Belgium) and Thomas Schwentick (Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Philipps- Universität Marburg). Paper presented at ICDT 2003 (Ninth International Conference on Database Theory), January 8-10, 2003, Rettorato dell'Universita' di Siena, Italy. 32 pages (with 25 references). This paper considers the complexity of the containment problem for various fragments of XPath. http://xml.coverpages.org/Neven-xpath.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#NevenXPath
"Automata- and Logic-Based Pattern Languages for Tree-Structured Data." By Frank Neven (University of Limburg) and Thomas Schwentick (Philipps-Universität Marburg). In Semantics in Databases. Revised Papers from the Second International Workshop (Dagstuhl Castle, Germany). Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2582. Edited by L. Bertossi, G.O.H. Katona, K.-D. Schewe, and B. Thalheim. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2003. 19 pages (with 31 references). The paper surveys work of the authors on pattern languages for tree-structured data with XML as the main application in mind; the main focus is on formalisms from formal language theory and logic. http://xml.coverpages.org/NevenAutomataSurvey.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#NevenAutomata
"Topologi Collaborative Markup Editor Version 1.1.3." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200304.html#clip2003-04-08-b
"GNOME Print Backend for PangoPDF." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200304.html#clip2003-04-08-a
"Updated Draft Version of GenXML 2.0." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200304.html#clip2003-04-04-a
"Schema Unit Test (SUT) Framework for Testing XML Schema." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200303.html#clip2003-03-24-a
"New Book on XML Data Management." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200303.html#clip2003-03-11-a
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"Sun Continues Web Services Leadership Push With New Products and Technologies For Java Technology-Based Web Services. New Sun ONE Integration Server Secure Trading Agent Part of Goal to Bring Best Security Features in the Industry to Sun's Network Computing Systems." http://xml.coverpages.org/SunTradingAgent.html
"Microsoft and BearingPoint Team to Launch Innovative Electronic Filing Solution to State Courts Nationwide. Solution Uses Microsoft .NET Software to Ensure Efficient Exchange of Information Among Attorneys and State Courts." http://xml.coverpages.org/CourtsE-Filing.html
"OpenLink Software Unleashes Virtuoso 3.0. Virtual Database Integrates Disparate SQL, XML, and Web Services Data Sources." http://xml.coverpages.org/Virtuoso30.html
"AIIM International Announces XML Standards Initiative for the Exchange of Document Images and Related Metadata. New Draft Standard Enables XML Users to Leverage Existing Software Systems and Expertise to Exchange Images of Documents, Related Indices, and Metadata." http://xml.coverpages.org/AIIM-ImagesMetadata.html
"Adobe Brings Together XML with the Power and Ubiquity of PDF. New XML Architecture Enables Intelligent Documents to Extend the Value of Enterprise Systems." http://xml.coverpages.org/Adobe60-XML.html
"Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) Releases Content Protection Specification for Peer Review. Finalization Expected in June 2003." http://xml.coverpages.org/ISMA-Review.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
PODS 2003 Conference. 22nd ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems. June 9 - 12, 2003. Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.db.ucsd.edu/SIGMODPODS03/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#pods2003
The Third ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2003). May 27 - 31, 2003. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. http://www.jcdl.org/jcdl03/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#JCDL2003
XML Europe 2003 Conference & Exposition. "Powering the Information Society." May 5 - 8, 2003. Hilton London Metropole, London, UK. http://www.xmleurope.com/2003/ http://www.xmleurope.com/2003/confnews/0409.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#xmlEurope2003
RSA Conference 2003. April 13 - 17, 2003. Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.rsaconference.net/rsa2003/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#rsa200304
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