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Cover Pages Newsletter
May 06, 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
W3C Releases Ten Working Drafts for XQuery, XSLT, and XPath.
Through collaborative and coordinated effort between W3C's XML Query Working Group and XSL Working Group, a collection of ten working draft specifications has been issued for public review. "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model" and "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators" are Last Call WDs. XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, XQuery 1.0, and other specifications are dependent upon the data model, functions, and operators defined in these two working drafts. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-06-a.html
IRS Modernized e-File Team Releases New XML Schemas for Corporate Income Tax.
A posting from Barr Joan (US IRS Modernized e-File Team) announces the release of XML schemas governing e-filing of income tax information for US corporations. The release includes some 750 XML schema files used by tax preparation software developers and tax preparers in automated e-filing and validation of IRS forms data. The schemas cover TY2002 1120 forms, including the Production Release v1.0 (53 forms) and Candidate Release V2.0 (43 forms). http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-05-b.html
OASIS Forms Business-Centric Methodology Technical Committee.
OASIS has issued a call for participation in a newly formed Business- Centric Methodology Technical Committee. The TC members plan to create a specification which will provide business managers with a set of clearly defined methods with which to acquire agile and interoperable e-business information systems. The interoperability specification design will build upon existing research and technology such as the project work developed at DFAS. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-05-a.html
Commerce One Releases Open Source DocSOAP XML Developer Kit for Document Style SOAP.
Commerce One has announced the release of an Open Source, royalty free Web services and SOAP XML Development Kit. The DocSOAP XML Development Kit (DocSOAP XDK) is designed to provide developers and businesses with advanced XML and SOAP tools to take advantage of Web services technology, particularly when used to handle the large business documents associated with e-commerce integration and the development of composite applications. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-02-a.html
Call for Participation in W3C P3P and Enterprise Privacy Policy Workshop.
A call for papers has been issued for the upcoming W3C Workshop on the Long Term Future of P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages. The Workshop is hosted by the Independent Center for Privacy Protection and will be held in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany on June 18-20, 2003. The organizers have invited position papers that discuss technology or policy with respect to P3P, privacy metadata, and fine-grained enterprise privacy languages. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-04-30-b.html
Corel Smart Graphics Studio Uses SVG for Graphical Applications Development.
Corel has announced the availability of its Corel Smart Graphics Studio development platform, designed to speed and simplify the creation of SVG-based smart graphics. 'Smart graphics' are a new form of enterprise-class, graphically-rich application built using open standard SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) to transform XML and legacy data into powerful and compelling intranet and extranet applications. A free trial version is available. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-04-30-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
"XML Key Management (XKMS 2.0) Requirements." Edited by Frederick Hirsch (Nokia) and Mike Just (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, TBS). W3C Note 05-May-2003. Latest version URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xkms2-req. This document lists the design principles, scope and requirements for XML Key Management specifications and trust server key management implementations. It includes requirements as they relate to the key management syntax, processing, security and coordination with other standards activities. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-xkms2-req-20030505 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#XKMS2REQ
"Style Stylesheets to Extend XSLT, Part 1. Use XSLT as a Macro Preprocessor." By Joseph Kesselman (Advisory Scientist, IBM). From IBM developerWorks, XML zone. May 6, 2003. XSLT is a very general-purpose document transformation processor. Joe demonstrates in this two-part series that stylesheets are themselves documents, so XSLT can be used as a portable preprocessor to automatically enhance the behavior of a stylesheet. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-styless1/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#KesselmanXSLT
"Arbortext 5 Leapfrogs Competitors." By [Seybold Bulletin Staff]. In The Bulletin: Seybold News and Views On Electronic Publishing Volume 8, Number 31 (May 7, 2003). At its user-group meeting this week, Arbortext previewed Arbortext 5, a new version of its XML editing and cross-media publishing sofware. The new version updates Arbortext's Epic editor and E3 publishing engine and introduces three new products, two of which break new ground in the XML publishing arena. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#SeyboldArbortext5
"Corel Introduces Smart Graphics Studio." By [Seybold Bulletin Staff]. In The Bulletin: Seybold News and Views On Electronic Publishing Volume 8, Number 31 (May 7, 2003). Corel announced last week the release of its Smart Graphics Studio, a suite of server and client applications for building dynamic vector graphics using the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) standard. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#SeyboldCorel
"XML Certification Quizzer. Validating Your XML Skills." By Joel Amoussou (XMLMentor.Net). In XML Journal Volume 4, Issue 5 (May 2003). This column has two objectives. The first is to help you prepare for IBM Test 141 on XML and related technologies. The second is to help you learn XML by offering tips for designing and optimizing XML solutions. http://www.sys-con.com/xml/article.cfm?id=634 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Amoussou
"Introduction to LBXML Operator." By Bing Li (Arizona State University). In XML Journal Volume 4, Issue 5 (May 2003). With source code. LBXML Operator is a Java API-based XML tool that supports insertion, modification, searching, and removal on XML files. http://www.sys-con.com/xml/article.cfm?id=633 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Li-LBXML
"Database-Driven Charting Using XSLT and SVG. Controlling Finer Details of Data-Driven Scalable Vector Graphics." By Avinash Moharil and Rajesh Zade. In XML Journal Volume 4, Issue 5 (May 2003). With the help of XSLT, XML data can be transformed into SVG graphics. SVG drawings can be dynamic and interactive, which gives tremendous flexibility when building data-dependent graphics such as charts. The Document Object Model (DOM) for SVG, which includes the full XML DOM, allows for straightforward and efficient vector graphics animation. http://www.sys-con.com/xml/article.cfm?id=632 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Moharil
"Statements on Demand Using XSL-FO. Online Presentation that Offers Better Quality." By Douglas Lovell (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center). In XML Journal Volume 4, Issue 5 (May 2003). Implementations of the XSL standards make it relatively simple to produce online account statements on demand as PDFs, with quality equaling that of statements that are printed and sent via mail. This article demonstrates the capability for generating statements online as PDF by implementing a real-world example. http://www.sys-con.com/xml/article.cfm?id=631 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Lovell
"What's New in Windows Server 2003." By Shawn Wildermuth. From O'Reilly ONDotnet.com (May 05, 2003). The author provides a list of the top ten features you should know about in Windows Server 2003. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/05/05/win2003.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Wildermuth
"Orchestration Promise Meets Reality. [Tools and Technologies.]" By Richard Adhikari. In Application Development Trends Volume 10, Number 5 (May, 2003), pages 46-50. Business process flows face mounting roadblocks as standards fights escalate; but emerging tools and business demands could force a resolution. http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7613 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Adhikari
"XML Group Cooks Up World Wide Database." By Paul Festa. In CNET News.com (May 06, 2003). The leading Web standards group has released ten draft XML specifications intended to make the Web perform more like a database. http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1000086.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#FestaXQuery
"Microsoft Office Word 2003 XML: Memo Styles Sample." By Frank C. Rice (Microsoft Corporation). From Microsoft MSDN Library (April 2003). Microsoft Office Word 2003 has added a number of features related to working with XML. These features are integrated in new task panes, menu options, and additions to the object model. In this article, the author examines some of these features from the perspective of the user interface and programmatically. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/odc_wd2003_ta/html/odc_wd11xml.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Rice
"Interoperability Strategy: Concepts, Challenges, and Recommendations." By Industry Advisory Council (IAC) Enterprise Architecture SIG. Concept Level White Paper Developed for the Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office (FEA-PMO). April 03, 2003. 31 pages. The purpose of this paper is to provide some background on the issues underlying the interoperability challenges, to shed some light on potential approaches to dealing with the problem, and to offer some specific recommendations, based on industry experience, that government at all levels can implement to rapidly address this challenge. http://xml.coverpages.org/IAC-Interop.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#IAC-WP
"Business Process Execution Language for Web Services. [BPEL4WS.]" By Tony Andrews (Microsoft), Francisco Curbera (IBM), Hitesh Dholakia (Siebel Systems), Yaron Goland (BEA), Johannes Klein (Microsoft), Frank Leymann (IBM), Kevin Liu (SAP), Dieter Roller (IBM), Doug Smith (Siebel Systems), Satish Thatte (Microsoft - Editor), Ivana Trickovic (SAP), and Sanjiva Weerawarana (IBM). Version 1.1. 5-May-2003. 136 pages. Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 BEA Systems, International Business Machines Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, SAP AG, and Siebel Systems. Updates the 'version 1.1' specification of March 31, 2003. Identified as a copy of the final version of the BPEL4WS V1.1 specification which the authors plan to submit at the first meeting of the WSBPEL TC on May 16, 2003. http://xml.coverpages.org/BPELv11-May052003Final.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#BPEL4WSv11-20030505
"Sun Joins Rivals' Web Services Program." By Gavin Clarke. From Computer Business Review Online (May 06, 2003). Sun told ComputerWire it is joining the Web Services Business Execution Process Language (WSBPEL) technical committee and plans to attend the group's kick-off meeting on May 16, 2003. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#ClarkeBPEL
"OASIS Unit to Promote Business Process Specification." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (May 05, 2003). OASIS has formally announced the formation of a technical committee to promote a standard for interoperable business processes and business process execution for Web services orchestration. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1054515,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#TaftBPEL
"Applications: XML, Web Services Pave the Way." By Shawn P. McCarthy. In Government Computer News Volume 22, Number 10 (May 05, 2003). For the first time, a majority of the tech community has agreed on a unified way to call functions remotely on multiple systems. It's a vendor-neutral approach that can reach across manifold operating systems, databases and applications. http://www.gcn.com/22_10/news/21974-1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#McCarthy
"XQuery Marks the Spot." By Jack Vaughan. In Application Development Trends (May 05, 2003). "XML has been accompanied by a slew of 'X- centric' helper tools, APIs, and standards such as XSLT, XPath and, of late, XQuery. To cast some light on this technology, ADT spoke recently with Jonathan Robie, XML program manager at DataDirect Technologies as well as a member of the W3C's XML Query Working Group that is at work on XQuery. http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7649 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#VaughanXQuery
"RSS Pushes Old Concept With New Technology." By Richard Karpinski. In BtoB-Online (May 05, 2003). Savvy marketers are beginning to tap a promising new one-to-one channel called RSS -- Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication, depending on who's asked. http://www.btobonline.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=10952 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Karpinski
"IRS Makes XML Schema Its Business." By Patricia Daukantas. In Government Computer News Volume 22, Number 9 (April 28, 2003), page 16. The IRS released its final XML schema for the 94x forms in January 2003. To expand electronic filing, IRS officials realized that they had to go beyond the forms for individual taxpayers and develop e- filing for business customers. http://www.gcn.com/22_9/departments/21850-1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Daukantas
"Office 2003 is XML-Friendly." By Carlos A. Soto. In Government Computer News Volume 22, Number 9 (April 28, 2003), pages 1, 12. The GCN Lab recently tried out the first and second beta versions of the Office 2003 suite, which Microsoft plans to release this summer. http://www.gcn.com/22_9/news/21864-1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Soto
"Intelligence and Military Look to XML to Share Data." By Wilson P. Dizard III. In Government Computer News Volume 22, Number 9 (April 28, 2003), page 8. The US Defense Department and the government's intelligence agencies are turning to Extensible Markup Language tags, registries and schemas as a way to share data across disparate systems. The main focus is the Intelligence Community System for Information Sharing, a backbone network shared by intelligence agencies. http://www.gcn.com/22_9/news/21879-1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Dizard
"Plain Text and XML: A Conversation with Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas, Part X." By Bill Venners. In Artima.com Interviews (April 30, 2003). Pragmatic Programmers Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas talk with Bill Venners about the value of storing persistent data in plain text and the ways they feel XML is being misused. http://www.artima.com/intv/plain.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Venners
"Developing E-Business Interactions with JAXM." By Nikhil Patil (Cysive, Inc). From the O'Reilly Network ONJava.com (April 30, 2003). JAXM, the Java API for XML Messaging, defines a lightweight Java API for composing, processing, sending, and receiving XML documents. The goal of JAXM is to provide a rich set of interfaces for document-style web services. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/04/30/jaxm.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Patil
"Creating Richer Hyperlinks with JSP Custom Tags." By Amit Goel [WWW]. From the O'Reilly Network ONJava.com (April 30, 2003). This article presents a simple approach to achieving multi-destination hyperlinks using a combination of JavaServer Pages (JSP) custom tags and XML. Multi-destination links give users the choice of where they want to go, as opposed to single-destination links. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/04/30/jsp_hyperlinks.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#GoelMultiLink
"DSDL Interoperability Framework." By Eric van der Vlist. From XML.com (April 30, 2003). While W3C XML Schema has had rapid uptake in many web services and data-oriented XML applications, another set of technologies, ISO DSDL, has been under development by the self- proclaimed 'document-heads.' The author introduces ISO DSDL as well as the Document Schema Definition Languages, and gives an overview of the work underway to create the DSDL Interoperability Framework. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/30/dsdl.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#vdVlistDSDL
"The Extensible Rule Markup Language." By Jae Kyu Lee (Professor of E- Commerce and Management Information Systems, Graduate School of Management at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul) and Mye M. Sohn (Associate Research Fellow, Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, Seoul). In Communications of the ACM (CACM) Volume 46, Issue 5 (May 2003), pages 59-64. ISSN: 0001-0782. XRML explicates the rules implicitly embedded in Web pages, enabling software agents to process the rules automatically... the implicit rules embedded in Web pages must be identifiable, interchangeable with structured-format rule-based systems, and accessible by applications. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#XRML
"Web-based XML Editing with W3C XML Schema and XSLT." By Ali Mesbah. From XML.com (April 30, 2003). This feature focuses on schema technology, in particular, using W3C XML Schema documents to generate HTML forms-based user interfaces for XML document editing. Ali Mesbah presents the thinking behind the creation of 'MetaXSL GUI,' an XSLT stylesheet for creating forms from schemas. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/30/editing.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Mesbah
"RSS on the Client." By John E. Simpson. From XML.com (April 30, 2003). RSS is a simple format for syndicating web site metadata continues in its widespread adoption. This week John Simpson reviews which client-side applications are available for viewing RSS files. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/30/qa.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#SimpsonRSS
"Public Key Cryptography Demystified." By Robert J. Brentrup. In Syllabus Magazine Volume 16, Number 10 (May 2003), pages 29-31, 41. Confidential personal information, legal documents, commercial transactions, and sensitive data increasingly are being transmitted over campus networks and the Internet every day. At the same time, the network environment is becoming more hostile and vulnerable to attack. Public key technology (PKI) has an important role to play in helping us protect our information and to be able to rely on the network to handle transactions of increasing value. http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7626 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Brentrup
"Is XQuery an Omni-Tool?" By Uche Ogbuji. In Application Development Trends (May 01, 2003). In covering so many bases, XQuery attempts to set an overall standard for an XML processing model and mechanism prematurely. With its sprawling and ambitious requirements/use cases, XQuery claims territory in almost every task typical for developers using XML. http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7620 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#OgbujiXQuery
"XNS Addressing Specification v1.1." Submission by XNSORG of the XNS Addressing Specification v1.1 to the OASIS Extensible Resource Identifier Technical Committee. Document posted 2003-05-01 by Drummond Reed to the OASIS Extensible Resource Identifier TC document repository. Edited by Dave McAlpin (Epok Inc.) and Drummond Reed (OneName Corporation). March 26, 2003. 21 pages. XNS Addressing provides addresses for a network of linked XML documents and has a need for a standardized syntax. However unlike XPath, which was designed primarily for programmatic use and includes many additional functions for querying data sets within an XML document, XNS addressing must fulfill requirements for machine efficiency, human usability, and identity persistence. http://xml.coverpages.org/xnsAddressingSpec-v11.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#XNS
"The (Data) Medium is the Message." By Simon St. Laurent. From O'Reilly Developer Weblogs (April 30, 2003). There is no general way for an XML document to serve as an efficient foundation for relational queries, nor is RDF much good at modeling XML's mixed content. While it may be convenient in some cases to serialize objects to XML, it requires lots of metadata if the object needs to be reconstituted in the same form, and the XML produced by serializations often looks alien to people who actually care to work with XML itself. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3139 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#StLaurent
"A Normal Form for XML Documents." By Li-Yan Yuan (Professor, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada). 40 pages. Reading reference for the course "Modern Database Management Systems" (Winter Term, 2003); the course covers research topics in advanced database management systems as well as emerging database techonologies, with emphasis on XML data and XML support for object- oriented database management systems. http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Eyuan/courses/692/lectures/xnf/xnf.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Li-YanYuan
"An Information-Theoretic Approach to Normal Forms for Relational and XML Data." By Marcelo Arenas and Leonid Libkin (University of Toronto). Paper for presentation at the 22nd ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2003), San Diego, USA, [June 9-12] 2003. Normalization as a way of producing good database designs is a well understood topic; however, the same problem of distinguishing well designed databases from poorly designed ones arises in other data models, in particular, XML. We use techniques of information theory, and define a measure of information content of elements in a database with respect to a set of constraints. http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~marenas/publications/pods03.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#XNF
"JXTA and Peer-to-Peer Networks." By Sing Li. In Dr. Dobb's Journal #349 Volume 28, Issue 6 (June 2003), pages 30-34. "JXTA is an open- source development project for creating a P2P substrate that's applicable to any hardware or software platforms. In this article I examine the difficulty in creating a generic presence solution, them present a workable solution for a P2P chat application on a JXTA P2P network. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#JXTA
"An Embeddable Lightweight XML-RPC Server." By M. Tim Jones. In Dr. Dobb's Journal #349 Volume 28, Issue 6 (June 2003), pages 60-67. Embedded Systems. The author examines the XML-RPC protocol for providing network-based RPCs, presents a lightweight server for embedded designs, and takes a look at two XML-RPC clients written in C and Python that communicate with the lightweight XML-RPC server. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#JonesXML-RPC
"Tip: Make Your CGI Scripts Available via XML-RPC. Providing a Programmatic Interface to Web Services." By David Mertz, Ph.D. (Interfacer, Gnosis Software, Inc). From IBM developerWorks, XML zone. For a large class of CGI scripts, it is both easy and useful to provide an alternate XML-RPC interface to the same calculation or lookup. If you do this, other developers can quickly utilize the information you provide within their own larger applications. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipxmlrpc.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#MertzCGI
"Using Extensible Markup Language-Remote Procedure Calling (XML-RPC) in Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP)." By Ward K. Harold (IBM, Austin, Texas). IETF Network Working Group, RFC. Reference: Request for Comments #3529. Category: Experimental. April 2003. 15 pages. XML-RPC is an Extensible Markup Language-Remote Procedure Calling protocol that works over the Internet. It defines an XML format for messages that are transfered between clients and servers using HTTP. This document specifies a how to use the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP) to transfer messages encoded in the XML-RPC format between clients and servers. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3529.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#HaroldBEEP
"Towards a Core Ontology for Information Integration." By Martin Doerr (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Greece), Jane Hunter (DSTC Pty, Ltd., Brisbane, Australia), and Carl Lagoze (Computing and Information Science, Cornell University, Ithaca NY). In Journal of Digital Information Volume 4, Issue 1 (April 2003). In this paper, we argue that a core ontology is one of the key building blocks necessary to enable the scalable assimilation of information from diverse sources. http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Doerr/doerr-final.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Doerr
"Corel Software Gets Smart on XML." By Paul Festa. In CNET News.com (April 30, 2003). Corel has released a new set of tools for creating enterprise application graphics that meet industry recommendations. http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-999120.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#FestaCorel
"Clean Up Your Schema for SOAP. Updating XML Schemas to be SOAP- Friendly." By Shane Curcuru (Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Research). From IBM developerWorks, Web services. April 29, 2003, More and more projects are using XML schemas to define the structure of their data. As your repository of schemas grows, you need tools to manipulate and manage your schemas. The Eclipse XSD Schema Infoset Model has powerful querying and editing capabilities. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-clean/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Curcuru
"Sun Faces Challenges With Java." By Yvonne L. Lee. In Software Development Times (May 01, 2003). A month before JavaOne, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s annual developer conference, the talk has moved away from the familiar 'How will Java compete against Microsoft's .NET Framework?' to whether Sun continues to be the appropriate standard- bearer for the language and Web services framework, and whether JavaOne continues to represent the interests of the entire Java community. http://www.sdtimes.com/news/077/story1.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#LeeSun
"Sun Readies Revamped Java/XML Integration Server." By Elizabeth Montalbano. In InternetWeek (April 30, 2003). In a project code-named Ganymede, Sun is working to combine facets of its current integration software products to build a pure J2EE integration server; the new software is part of Sun's Project Orion strategy to 'bake' all of its Java middleware into its Solaris operating system. http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9400187 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#MontalbanoSun
"Microsoft to Expose Passport as XML-enabled .NET Web Service This Summer. Officials Give Update on .NET." By Paula Rooney. In CRN (April 30, 2003). As part of its growing portfolio of .NET services, Microsoft will expose its Passport authentication service as an XML Web service this summer; the forthcoming Microsoft Passport Web Service, which will support XML and the delivery of SOAP messages over HTTP, joins existing Microsoft Web services such as .NET Alerts and MapPoint Web Service. http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=41648 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#RooneyPassport
"Corel Preps Vector Graphics for Business Use." By Rich Seeley. In Application Development Trends (April 30, 2003). Corel Corp. has announced the availability of its new Smart Graphics Studio, SVG technology for creating and publishing open-standards graphics; the tools make it possible to take business data and existing graphics such as CAD files and convert them into useful applications. http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7644 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Seeley
"SCO Directs Attention to New Software." By Stephen Shankland. In CNET News.com (April 29, 2003). SCO Group's fastest-growing revenue source stems from its efforts to enforce proper licensing of its software, but the company announced Web services software Wednesday that could steer some attention back to the company's products as well. http://news.com.com/2100-1012-998970.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#ShanklandSCO
"SCOx Overview: Understanding and Getting Started with SCOx." By Erik W. Hughes, Simmi K. Bhargava, and Thor Christianson. SCO Overview White Paper. April 29, 2003. SCOx is SCO's technology framework used to deliver business applications and online services to key markets. Through this framework, SCOx lets solution providers plug their existing and new applications into a web services environment; provide billable, metered services; and leverage a fleet of resellers for selling the SCOx-enabled applications. http://www.sco.com/scox/scox_overview.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#SCO-WP
"Stenbit Details Defense's Plans for a Metadata Registry." By Dawn S. Onley. In Government Computer News (April 30, 2003). The US Defense Department can't achieve net-centricity without a policy for managing the millions of lines of code in use throughout the department; applying metadata tags is a critical first step in controlling data while ensuring ease of access. http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21924-1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Onley
"Web Services Finds Royalty-Free OASIS." By Martin LaMonica. In ZDNet News (April 30, 2003). A group within OASIS will meet next month to discuss the technical development of Business Process Execution Language for Web services (BPEL) -- to help standardise specifications for automating complex business processes. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t272-s2134107,00.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#LaMonicaBPEL2
"OASIS Takes On Workflow Specification. Committee to Craft Standard Based on Spec from IBM, Microsoft, BEA." By John Fontana. In InfoWorld (April 30, 2003). The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards has agreed to form a committee to investigate crafting a Web services standard for process workflow. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/30/HNoasisspec_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#FontanaBPEL
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"Arbortext 5 Simplifies Multichannel Publishing for Dynamic Content. New Products Reduce Hidden Costs and Inefficiencies, Improve Content Creation and Publishing." http://xml.coverpages.org/Arbortext5-Announce.html
"TIBCO Delivers First Solution for Enterprise-Scale Management of Metadata. TIBCO XML Canon Sets the Standard for XML Enterprise Metadata Management." http://xml.coverpages.org/TIBCO-XMLCanon.html
"SeeBeyond Sponsors Formation of Technical Committee for Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL). OASIS Member Supports Merging of Competing Specifications to Accelerate Development of Open Standards for Business Process Integration." http://xml.coverpages.org/SeeBeyond-BPEL.html
"SCO Outlines SCOx Web Services Strategy for Future Growth. Company to Roll Out Technology Framework for Integrated Web Services Applications at SCO Forum." http://xml.coverpages.org/SCOx-Announce.html
"Corel Smart Graphics Studio Now Available." http://xml.coverpages.org/Corel-SVG.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
Online Information 2003. December 2 - 4, 2003. Olympia Conference Centre and Grand Hall, Hammersmith, London, UK. http://www.imark.co.uk/ol03/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#onlineInfo2003
Fifth O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention (OSCON) 2003. "Extend and Embrace." July 7 - 11, 2003. Portland Marriot Downtown, Portland, Oregon, USA. http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ http://conferences.oreillynet.com/ http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200301.html#clip2003-01-21-d http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#oscon2003
ELPUB 2003. ICCC/IFIP Seventh International Conference on Electronic Publishing. June 25 - 28, 2003. University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal. http://piano.dsi.uminho.pt/elpub2003/ http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/elpub2003/programme.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#elpub2003
The Eighth Global Grid Forum (GGF8). "Building Grids: Obstacles and Opportunities." June 24 - 27, 2003. Seattle, WA, USA. http://www.ggf.org/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#ggf8
IEEE Conference on E-Commerce (CEC 2003). June 24 - 27, 2003. Newport Beach, California, USA. http://tab.computer.org/tfec/cec03/index.html http://tab.computer.org/tfec/cec03/program.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#cec2003
Open Publish 2003. June 23 - 25, 2003, Sheraton Society Hill Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://xml.coverpages.org/OpenPublish2003PA.html http://www.open-publish.com/openpublish/2003/about.asp http://www.open-publish.com/openpublish/2003/program.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#OpenPublish2003PA
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 https://www.eema.org/eema2003/programme.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#eema2003
Eighth Annual Arbortext User's Group International Conference. AUGI 2003. May 7 - 9, 2003. Adam's Mark Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, USA. http://www.arbortext.com/html/augi_2003.html http://xml.coverpages.org/AUGI2003Schedule.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#augi2003
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