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Cover Pages Newsletter
June 24, 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]
IBM Development Team Publishes Updated DITA Toolkit and Language Reference.
An updated Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) toolkit is available from IBM developerWorks. This is a stable version, representing the culmination of the past year's testing and implementation of the DTDs in IBM's internal authoring and production workbench. Release 1.1.2 includes an XML Schema and a 198-page formal "DITA Language Reference" featuring hyperlinked descriptions of DITA elements, attributes, valid contexts, and examples. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-24-b.html
Namespace Routing Language (NRL) Supports Multiple Independent Namespaces.
James Clark has announced the publication of a Namespace Routing Language (NRL) specification. NRL is an XML language for combining schemas for multiple namespaces; it allow the schemas that it combines to use arbitrary schema languages. The release includes a tutorial and specification document and a sample implementation in the Jing (RELAX NG Validator in Java) distribution. NRL has been designed as input to ISO/IEC 19757 (DSDL) Part 4. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-19-b.html
UK Office of Government Commerce and BASDA Conduct eProcurement Assessment Trials.
The UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and the Business Applications Software Developers Association (BASDA) announced a new testing program designed to discover how different purchasing software packages may best interoperate, based upon common IT standards for eProcurement. The project uses an implementation of the BASDA eBIS-XML Data Suite standard, and seeks to align the eBIS-XML Order and Invoice schemas with the UK e-GIF standards. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-19-a.html
Updated Unicode Technical Report Clarifies Characters not Suitable for Use With Markup.
A revised version of "Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages" has been published as Unicode Technical Report #20, Revision 7 and as W3C Note 13-June-2003. The revision reflects three principal changes: (1) The base version is Unicode Version 4.0; (2) greater prominence is given to material in a new Section 3, 'Characters Not Suitable for Use With Markup'; (3) Section 6 clarifies the appropriate local use of 66 non-character code points. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-18-b.html
OASIS Entity Resolution TC Approves XML Catalogs Specification for Public Review.
The OASIS Entity Resolution Technical Committee has voted to approve the latest revision of the "XML Catalogs" specification as a Committee Specification and to submit it for public review. A simple entity catalog defined in the "XML Catalogs" specification is used as an interoperable method for mapping the information in an XML external identifier into a URI reference for the XML external resource. The public review period closes July 18, 2003. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-18-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
Presence Information Data Format (PIDF). By Hiroyasu Sugano (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd), Shingo Fujimoto (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd), Graham Klyne (Nine by Nine), Adrian Bateman (VisionTech Limited), Wayne Carr (Intel Corporation), Jon Peterson (NeuStar, Inc). IETF Network Working Group, Internet Draft. Reference: 'draft-ietf-impp-cpim-pidf-08.txt'. May 2003, expires November 2003. 27 pages. Work product of the IETF Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol Working Group (IMPP). This memo specifies the Common Profile for Presence (CPP) Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) as a common presence data format for CPP-compliant Presence protocols, and also defines a new media type 'application/pidf+xml' to represent the XML MIME entity for PIDF. http://xml.coverpages.org/draft-ietf-impp-cpim-pidf-08.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#pidfV08
"WS-Trust: Interoperable Security for Web Services." By Paul Madsen. From O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com (June 24, 2003). WS-Trust is a proposal that enables security token interoperability by defining a request/response protocol by which SOAP actors can request of some trusted authority that a particular security token be exchanged for another. WS-Trust enables interoperability between the multiple formats for security tokens and addresses the issue of trust interoperability. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/06/24/ws-trust.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Madsen
"Rendezvous with Web Services." By Massimiliano Bigatti. From O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com (June 24, 2003). This article introduces Zeroconf and demonstrates how it can be used with web services. Functionality similar to ZeroConf has already been provided by AppleTalk, Novell IPX, and Microsoft Netbios [but] these proprietary configuration protocols don't work on IP networks and are suited only to local networks. Zeroconf aims at filling this gap, providing a royalty-free, open standard. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/06/24/rendezvous.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Bigatti
"WSDL Tales From The Trenches, Part 2." By Johan Peeters. From O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com (June 24, 2003). In Part 1 of 'WSDL Tales From the Trenches' Peeters painted a big picture of web services design: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) only defines the syntax of how a web service may be invoked; it says nothing about its semantics. The version of WSDL being most widely used now, 1.1, is published as a W3C Note, not an official standard; WSDL 1.1 offers a lot of latitude for invoking web services. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/06/24/wsdl.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Peeters2
"A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Package for Modification Events for the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) Managed Documents." By Jonathan Rosenberg (dynamicsoft). IETF SIMPLE Working Group, Internet Draft. Reference: 'draft-ietf-simple-xcap-package-00'. June 23, 2003; expires December 22, 2003. 17 pages. "This specification defines a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) event package for finding out about changes to documents managed by the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP). XCAP allows a client to manipulate XML documents on a server which contain configuration information for application protocols. http://xml.coverpages.org/draft-ietf-simple-xcap-package-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#XCAP
"Oracle Intros New Collaboration Applications. Offerings Include Project Management, Project Collaboration and Project Intelligence." By Scarlet Pruitt. In InfoWorld (June 24, 2003). Oracle has introduced three new collaboration applications and an enhanced product lifecycle management tool for its E-Business Suite as part of what the company has called a second wave of e-business offerings that offer companies deeper integration. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/24/HNoraclecollaboration_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#OracleCollab
"W3C Issues Key Web Services Standard." By Paul Festa. In CNET News.com (June 25, 2003). The Web's leading standards group has put its stamp of approval on a key Web services protocol. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) said it has published the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) version 1.2 as a formal standard. http://news.com.com/2100-1013_3-1020996.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#FestaSOAP12
"W3C Ratifies SOAP 1.2. Web Services Specification is Finalized." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (June 24, 2003). Version 1.2 of the SOAP specification, a foundational technology for Web services, has been released by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), with vendors pledging support in products. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/24/HNsoap12_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#krillSOAP12
"XML Data Binding with JAXB and UBL Source Code. Process XML Documents Without SAX or DOM." By Ed Mooney and Joseph Fialli (Sun Microsystems). In Java Developer's Journal Volume 8, Issue 6 (June 2003), pages 46-50. Unlike SAX and DOM, which force you to think in terms of a document's structure, XML data binding lets you think in terms of the objects the structure represents. It does so by realizing that structure as a collection of Java classes and interfaces. This article will look at two new standards: JAXB and UBL. http://www.sys-con.com/java/article.cfm?id=2049 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#MooneyUBL
"A Brief History of Tags: Using a Tags-Based Approach." By Rich Rosen (Application Architect, Wall Street Journal). In Java Developer's Journal Volume 8, Issue 6 (June 2003), pages 10-22. With source code. Custom tags in JavaServer Pages have come a long way since their inception. Now that Sun has provided some standards for these tags in the form of JSTL and JavaServer Faces, and has promised additional support for these standards in JSP 2.0, we can look at how we got to this point in tag history, and where we're going in the future. http://www.sys-con.com/java/article.cfm?id=2045 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#RosenTAGS
"Geopriv Authorization Policies." By Hannes Tschofenig and Jorge R Cuellar (Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany). Internet Engineering Task Force Internet Draft. Reference: 'draft-tschofenig- geopriv-authz-policies-00.txt'. June 2003, expires December 2003. 16 pages. Submitted to the IETF Geographic Location/Privacy Working Group. This document describes authorization policies for usage with Geopriv. It suggests using the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML). XACML provides functionality required to express policies for access to location information. http://xml.coverpages.org/draft-tschofenig-geopriv-authz-policies-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Tschofenig
"Updated Eclipse Toolkit Shines. Eclipse SDK 2.1 Leverages Java's Strengths in IDE Toolkit, But Beware of Too Much Expansion." By Rick Grehan. In InfoWorld (June 20, 2003). Eclipse is written in Java, and Java suites Eclipse's extensibility well; but such easy extensibility is fertile ground for overgrown features. Eclipse is the umbrella name for three related projects: the Eclipse Project, the Eclipse Tools Project, and the Eclipse Technology Project. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/20/25TCeclipse_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Grehan
"Intel, Universities Create World Network." By Michael Kanellos. In CNET News.com (June 23, 2003). Intel, Princeton University, the University of California at Berkeley, and a host of other academic and industrial heavyweights have banded together to take the lag out of getting data from halfway around the world. Work accomplished at PlanetLab is expected eventually to permit sites to broadcast video from computers located around the world in a coordinated fashion to swarms of users simultaneously without bogging down access. http://news.com.com/2100-1035_3-1020157.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Kanellos
"FDIC Project Tries Out XBRL." By Diane Frank. In Federal Computer Week (June 18, 2003). Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is largely an untested standard for government and industry in the United States, but a new modernization project at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. could give XBRL some momentum. The FDIC's Call Report Modernization Project will use XBRL to enhance electronic transactions and communications. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0616/web-xbrl-06-18-03.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Frank-XBRL
"Service-Oriented Architecture Should Guide Migration to Web Services." By Gerrie Swart. From ITWeb (June 24, 2003). Web services has been the subject of much discussion, hype and promotion by the software industry and analysts, but companies that are adopting these technologies may encounter unexpected complexity if their architecture is not closely controlled. http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/techforum/2003/0306240815.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Swart
"Trusting ID Management Technology. The Escalating Need for Identity Management Systems is Driving Privacy Concerns to the Forefront." By Jack McCarthy and Brian Fonseca. In InfoWorld (June 20, 2003). When companies forge partnerships with suppliers, clients, and customers, they expose their systems to security breaches not only by their own employees but their partners' employees as well. How can a chief technologist gain control over access to a company's secure resources? The answer seems to lie in a robust identity management system, which gathers and manages employees' personal data, ensures the approval of those whose data is being used, and offers ironclad security. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/20/25FEprivacymain_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#IDManagement
"J2EE 1.4 Eases Web Service Development. Java's New Web Service Client and Server Programming Models." By Frank Sommers. In Java World (June 20, 2003). The latest J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) specification, version 1.4, makes Web services a core part of the Java enterprise platform. A set of JSRs in the Java Community Process define how J2EE components can become Web services and how existing enterprise Java applications can invoke Web services; it adds new interoperability requirements for J2EE containers. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2003/jw-0620-webservices.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#SommersJ2EE
"Slowly Weaving Web Services Together." By Alex Salkever and Olga Kharif. In BusinessWeek (June 24, 2003). As of the summer of 2003, and Web services remains a buzzword. Web services has become mostly about making software integration easier, faster, and cheaper. That alleviates a pain point for many companies, but it's hardly the dawn of a new era. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2003/tc20030624_3614_tc113.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Salkever
"Xerox Previews DocuShare Add-On. Company Adds Collaboration Features to Document Management Software." By Marc Ferranti. In InfoWorld (June 23, 2003). Xerox used the CeBIT America show last week to stage a sneak-peek demonstration of a new add-on program designed to give workgroup and collaboration features to the company's DocuShare Web- based document and content management software. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/23/HNdocushare_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#FerrantiCeBIT
"Microsoft Readies Kit for Security Initiative. Developers to Get Early Look at NGSCB." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (June 19, 2003). At the October Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft plans to release a preliminary software development kit for its Next- Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) security technology, also known as Palladium. The kit will give developers an early opportunity to work with the NGSCB code in preparation for developing applications that take advantage of the technology. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/19/HNngscbtech_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Krill-NGSCB
"CSS 3 Selectors." By Russell Dyer. From XML.com (June 18, 2003). To expedite the process of CSS development and adoption, the CSS working group has started grouping related features into modules and releasing them separately, without waiting for completion of all modules. One CSS module that has recently been moved to Recommended status by the CSS working group is the Selectors module. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/06/18/css3-selectors.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#DyerCSS
"Transforming XML with PHP." By Bruno Pedro. From XML.com (June 18, 2003). This article compares two methods of transforming XML in PHP: PEAR's XML_Transformer package and the W3C XML transformation language XSLT. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/06/18/php-xml.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Pedro
"Archivists Say Computers Have No Sense of History." By Kevin Coughlin. In Star-Ledger News (June 19, 2003). A scientific journal is warning that electronic record-keeping is no match for paper and ink when it comes to preserving history. The bottom line: Future historians may be clueless about the past without a systematic and reliable way of keeping electronic records. http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1056005062165050.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Coughlin
"Mobile Subset of XML Schema Part 2." ISO Document for information and review. Produced by SC34 Japan for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34/WG1: Information Technology -- Document Description and Processing Languages -- Information Presentation. Project 19757-5 (Project Editor, Martin Bryan). ISO Reference: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N 0410. April 22, 2003. The authors propose to create a compact and reliable subset of W3C XML Schema Part 2 and publish it as an ISO standard. The main target of this subset is mobile devices (such as cellular phones). Mobile devices are expected to use XML in the near future and small XML parsers have been developed already. Validators for schema languages are expected to follow, and a prototypical validator for RELAX NG on mobile phones has been developed. http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0410.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#MobileSubsetSchema
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"SALT Forum Advances Mobile Content Delivery with Enhancements to Scalable Vector Graphics Specification. New Proposal Paves the Way for Speech Applications on Portable Devices." http://xml.coverpages.org/SALTProfile-SVG.html
"DMSi Announces Availability of X2XL Beta." http://xml.coverpages.org/DMSi-Excel.html
"Choreology Launches Cohesions 1.0: BTM Software for Application Coordination and Process Synchronization." http://xml.coverpages.org/CohesionsV10-Announce.html
"Federal Banking Regulators Award Unisys Outsourcing Contract to Transform the Collection of Bank Data. Call Agencies to Employ Web Services and XBRL to Streamline Bank Call Report Processing." http://xml.coverpages.org/UnisysXBRL.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
2003 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. August 4 - 7, 2003. The Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/ http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny03/V40/index.cvn?id=10171 http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#LinuxWorld2003
Extreme Markup Languages 2003. August 4 - 8, 2003. Hilton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://xml.coverpages.org/ExtremeMarkup2003CFP.html http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#Extreme2003
Fifty-Seventh (57th) IETF Meeting. July 13 - 18, 2003. Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria. http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-57.html http://www.ietf.org/meetings/agenda_57.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#ietf57
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
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://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-27-b.html 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
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