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Cover Pages Newsletter
June 17, 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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Recently featured news stories from the Cover Pages news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/news.html [Full abstract] http://xml.coverpages.org/covernewsTOP.html [Brief summary] http://xml.coverpages.org/covernews.xml [RSS]
Universal Postal Union Publishes Approved International Address Standard UPU S42-1.
The Universal Postal Union (UPU) has published "International Postal Address Components and Templates" as an approved Standard S42-1. As summarized in an overview document by Joe Lubenow, the UPU standard defines low-level name and address elements, address templates, and rendition instructions. Templates in UPU S42 are described both in natural language and using an XML format known as the Postal Address Template Description Language (PATDL). http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-17-a.html
Updated W3C Working Draft for Call Control Extensible Markup Language (CCXML).
The W3C Voice Browser Working Group has issued a substantial update for "Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0". CCXML defines declarative markup designed to provide telephony call control support for VoiceXML or other dialog systems; it is an adjunct language intended to complement and integrate with a VoiceXML system. This WD revises the call control and media models, providing full details on call control objects, behaviors, and events. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-16-a.html
CSIRO Publishes IETF Internet Draft for Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML).
Researchers at CSIRO have published an IETF Internet Draft for "Specification of the Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML)," serving as a companion to the "Specification of the ANNODEX Annotation Format for Time-Continuous Bitstreams." ANNODEX Annotation Format and CMML use XML markup to solve the problem of "dark matter" on the Internet: continuous media files such as audio and video files are not indexed and are usually unsearchable. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-13-a.html
Hong Kong CECID Donates ebMail Client Software for ebXML Message Handling.
The University of Hong Kong Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID) has announced the release of its ebMail code base under an open source RF license. ebMail is a lightweight toolkit which enables trading partners to exchange business documents through email or ebXML Message Service (ebMS) over SMTP. The ebMail trimmed-down ebMS handler does not require any application server software or dedicated Internet connection. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-12-d.html
W3C Publishes Note Defining an XML Indirection Facility for XLink and XPointer.
W3C has acknowledged receipt of a submission from ISOGEN International describing an "XML Indirection Facility". XIndirect is a simple mechanism for using XML to represent indirect addresses in order to augment the core functionality of XLink and XPointer without requiring either of those specifications to themselves require support for indirect addresses. The Note defines an XML-based representation syntax for indirectors used in XML documents. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-12-c.html
IBM and Oracle Submit XQuery API for Java (XQJ) Java Specification Request.
A Java Specification Request "XQuery API for Java (XQJ)" submitted by IBM and Oracle Corporation has been published through the Java Community Process (JCP). The specification design goal is to develop a common API that allows an application to submit queries conforming to the W3C XQuery 1.0 specification to an XML data source and to process the results of such queries. XQJ relates to XQuery in the same way that JDBC relates to SQL. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-12-b.html
W3C Releases Three Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2 Working Drafts.
The W3C Web Services Description Working Group has published an initial public working draft for "Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 1.2 Part 2: Message Patterns", along with updated WDs for "WSDL Version 1.2 Part 1: Core Language" and "WSDL Version 1.2 Part 3: Bindings". WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-12-a.html
Sun Microsystems Launches Java.net Portal for Java Technology Collaboration.
Partnering with O'Reilly and CollabNet, Sun Microsystems opened the Java.net portal designed to expand the Java technology portfolio of applications, tools, and services by promoting conversation and collaboration around development of practical applications. The site hosts a CVS source tree, bug-tracking system, forums, and mail lists; it provides tools for gathering information on what's happening in the industry through RSS newsfeeds. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-11-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
"Documents Revisited: eCommerce for Everyone." By Jon Bosak (Sun Microsystems). Presented at the "Technology Roadmap Seminar: Extracting IT from XML and Web Services," hosted by Enterprise Ireland (Glasnevin, Dublin), 12-May-2003. Represents a slightly revised version of the slide presentation used in Bosak's XML Europe 2003 Opening Keynote Address "The Universal Business Language (UBL)." 24 pages. The addition of a few key enablers to the ubiquitous Internet can bring small and medium-sized businesses into global e-commerce: (1) A document-centric architecture; (2) A standard royalty-free XML B2B tag set; (3) A standard royalty-free B2B infrastructure; (4) A standard royalty-free office productivity format; (5) Free open-source software to make it all happen. http://xml.coverpages.org/Bosak20030512Europe.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#BosakEurope2003
"On Querying Geospatial and Georeferenced Metadata Resources in G- Portal." By Zehua Liu, Ee-Peng Lim, Wee-Keong Ng, and Dion Hoe-Lian Goh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). Presented in Session 8b, "Designing and Accessing Scientific Digital Libraries" at JCDL 2003. In Proceedings of the Third ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2003), Houston, Texas, USA, May 27 - 31, 2003. With 17 references. G-Portal is a web portal system providing a range of digital library services to access geospatial and georeferenced resources on the Web. All metadata resources are represented in XML. An XQuery-like language RQL (Resource Query Language) is used to query the data based upon identification of the the project and schema(s). http://www.cais.ntu.edu.sg/~liuzh/papers/jcdl03_rql.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#GPortal
"Intel and Sun Add X Factor to Mobile Java." By Rob Bamforth (Bloor Research). In The Register (June 17, 2003). Intel and Sun, who are direct competitors in several areas, have jointly announced a collaborative effort to optimise Java for the Intel XScale silicon technology. This collaboration is significant because of Intel's recognition of Java as a popular and widespread software platform for real applications that demand the best performance out of the underlying hardware. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/31235.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Bamforth
"Manipulate XML Data Easily with the XPath and XSLT APIs in the .NET Framework." By Dino Esposito. In Microsoft MSDN Magazine (July 2003). With XPath, you can identify and process a group of related nodes in XML-based data sources. XPath provides an infrastructure that is integral to XML support in the .NET Framework. The author reviews the implementation details of the XPath navigator and the XSLT processor and includes practical examples such as asynchronous transformations, sorted node-sets, and ASP.NET server-side transformations. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/07/XPathandXSLT/default.aspx http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Esposito
"X2EE." By By Steven P. Punte. x2ee White paper. June 2003. In this article, we explore how emerging software platforms are already proceeding down the path of expressing entire software solutions to an ever-greater extent in XML. X2EE is a next generation software vision that relinquishes the object-oriented paradigm and adopts a pure XML perspective for software design and solutions. All data is viewed as XML documents, and all processes are viewed as XML transformations. http://www.x2ee.org/article.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#PunteX2EE
"Becoming NetCentric: Leveraging an Information Network of Communities of Interests, Architectures, and Ontologies." By Bruce Peat (eProcess Solutions). 7 pages. Also available from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service website. Organizations need to take a closer look at how to foster communication among users by promoting the clustering of contextbased communities or Communities of Interests (CoIs). Collectively CoIs are a critical information network topology that reach beyond the scope of the organization to include partners and stakeholders. CoIs allow information to scale globally, persist indefinitely and be distributed to almost any community for adoption. http://xml.coverpages.org/PeatBCM-NetCentric030615.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#PeatNetCentric
"XML and Unicode: Mix With Care." By Paul Festa. In CNET News.com (June 16, 2003). A technical report released by the Unicode Consortium and the W3C warns document authors that some Unicode features can cause XML applications, HTML browsers, and other programs to choke. Conflict arises between Unicode and Web markup languages from the fundamentally different philosophies that underlie the character set and Web standards. http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1017789.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#FestaUnicode4
"OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee SPML V1.0 Interoperability Event." Technical and Operations Plan. Edited by Darran Rolls (Waveset Technologies) for the OASIS SPTC. Committee Working Draft. 06-June-2003. 20 pages. "This document describes the message exchanges to be tested during the Burton Catalyst interoperability event in San Francisco, July 9-11, 2003. The interoperability test is designed to show the interoperation of service subscription and provisioning based on the draft SPML V1.0 specification. http://xml.coverpages.org/OASIS-PSTC-InteropBurton03.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#RollsSPML
"OWL Web Ontology Language XML Presentation Syntax." By Masahiro Hori (Kansai University, formerly IBM Tokyo Research), Jérôme Euzenat, (INRIA Rhône-Alpes), and Peter F. Patel-Schneider (Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies). W3C Note 11-June-2003. This document from the W3C Web Ontology Working Group specifies XML presentation syntax for OWL, which is defined as a dialect similar to OWL Abstract Syntax [OWL Semantics]. It is not intended to be a normative specification. Instead, it represents a suggestion of one possible XML presentation syntax for OWL. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-owl-xmlsyntax-20030611/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#OWLPresentation
"Two Modes of Implementing an XML-Based Localization Pack: Embed and Extend. A Globalization Technique for Supporting Multiple Languages." By Bei Shu (Globalization Certification Laboratory, IBM China Software Development Lab). From IBM developerWorks, XML Zone. June 2003. IBM software engineer Bei Shu shows you how to enable multiple language support in your Web applications using different XML technologies from the architect perspective. She presents the embed and extend approaches to implementing XML-based localization pack managers using XPath and XSLT. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-multlang/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Shu
"Enterprises Take Early Lead in Web Services Integration Projects." By Carol Sliwa. In Computerworld (June 16, 2003). Few web services initiatives have been launched with the scope at Eastman Chemical Co. and Merrill Lynch & Co. One of the distinguishing characteristics that separates these early adopters is the systematic approach they take to building the sort of service-oriented development architecture. http://www.idg.net/ic_1322025_9677_1-5043.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#SliwaWS
"IBM Sprinkles Cinnamon on Content Manager. Big Blue to Bolster XML in Forthcoming Version." By Tom Sullivan. In InfoWorld (June 13, 2003). IBM is working on ways to make XML documents and data easier to pull into its content management software, and to index and search the data once it is in there. 'Cinnamon' IBM's effort to extend that technology base to permit users to take complex XML documents, whatever might be expressed in an XML document and the associated DTDs and schemas, and then manage the oversight of the mapping task that defines how to project that into the full data modeling services of CM. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/13/HNcinnamon_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#SullivanCinnamon
"IBM Spices Up Its Content Manager." By Lisa Vaas. In eWEEK (June 17, 2003). "IBM next year will release a tool 'code-named Cinnamon' that will enable its Content Manager software to more easily index and search XML data. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1129852,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#VaasCinnamon
"Developers Expect Nod for UML 2.0 Standard." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (May 26, 2003). The first UML 2.0 specifications were adopted as OMG standards in March 2003, covering Infrastructure, Object Constraint Language and Diagram Interchange Protocol. A fourth specification, Superstructure, completes the recommendation process for the latest UML version. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1104271,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#TaftUML20
"UML 2.0 Full Suite: MetaObjects Standards Complete." By Vance McCarthy. In Integration Developer News (June 13, 2003). Modeling may get easier for developers to implement and support, as the full suite of upgraded standards was adopted last week by the Object Management Group, a collection of more than 50 software vendors focused on object and XML-based modeling. http://idevnews.com/IntegrationNews.asp?ID=71 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#McCarthyUML20
"Automating Interoperability Testing." By Demir Barlas. In Line56 E- Business News (June 17, 2003). Drummond Group has developed an innovative technology designed to automate interoperability and conformance testing. The InSitu technology will deliver global testing support across different time zones, creating less impact on test participants' work hours. http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=4751 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#BarlasDrummond
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"Work on Radio and TV Listing Markup Language Started." http://xml.coverpages.org/ProgramGuideML-Announce.html
"OGC Trials 'Common IT Language' To Drive Government eCommerce Agenda. BASDA's eBIS-XML in Proof-of-Concept Trial With OGC." http://xml.coverpages.org/BASDA-OGC.html
"SAP Unleashes Cross-Enterprise Collaboration with Out-of-the-Box Support of Industry Standards. New Business Content for SAP NetWeaver Enables Immediate Support of Data Exchange Standards Such as RosettaNet and CIDX." http://xml.coverpages.org/SAPNetWeaver.html
"BT, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Siemens form RosettaNet Telecommunications Industry Council. Leading Global Telecommunications Suppliers and Operators Join Forces to Standardize Key E-Business Processes Using RosettaNet." http://xml.coverpages.org/RosettaNet-TC.html
"ebMail Source Code Donated to ebXML Development Community." http://xml.coverpages.org/ebMailSourceForge.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
JCDL 2004. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2004. "Global Reach and Diverse Impact." June 7 - 11, 2004. Hilton El Conquistador Hotel, Tucson, AZ, USA. http://www.jcdl2004.org/ http://www.jcdl2004.org/JCDL-CFP.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#jcdl2004
ECDL 2003. Seventh European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. August 17 - 22, 2003. Britannia Hotel, Trondheim, Norway. http://www.ecdl2003.org/ http://www.ecdl2003.org/ecdl.program.html http://www.glam.ac.uk/soc/research/hypermedia/NKOS-Workshop.php http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#ECDL2003
SVG Open 2003. July 13 - 18, 2003. Second Annual Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics. Westin Bayshore Resort and Marina, Vancouver, BC, Canada. http://xml.coverpages.org/SVGOpenConference2003.html http://www.svgopen.org/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#SVG-Open2003
XML Web Services One Boston. "Solutions for Practical XML Web Services Development." August 12 - 15, 2003. World Trade Center, Boston, MA, USA. http://www.xmlconference.com/ http://www.xmlconference.com/boston/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#wsOneBoston2003
Burton Catalyst Conference North America 2003. With OASIS SPML Interoperability Demonstration. July 9 - 11, 2003. San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.burtongroup.com/catalyst/catna03/ http://xml.coverpages.org/OASIS-PSTC-InteropBurton03.pdf http://www.oasis-open.org/presentations/spmlpresentation.ppt http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#catalystNA2003
O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention (OSCON) 2003. "Extend and Embrace." July 7 - 11, 2003. Portland Marriot Downtown, Portland, Oregon, USA. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2003/ 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://piano.dsi.uminho.pt/elpub2003/cfp.htm http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/elpub2003/programme.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#elpub2003
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
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