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December 23, 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 [Full abstract] http://xml.coverpages.org/covernewsTOP.html [Brief summary] http://xml.coverpages.org/covernews.xml [RSS]
FISD XML Messaging Specification for Real Time Streaming XML-Encoded Market Data.
SIIA's Financial Information Services Division has released a beta version of "FISD's XML Messaging Specification: fisdMessage Reference Guide", together with Appendices and Enumerations. The fisdMessage specification defines a standards-based protocol for delivering static XML content like Market Data Definition Language (MDDL) information between a data provider and consumer. The protocol optimizes updates using minimum bandwidth.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-12-19-a.html
W3C Publishes First Working Draft for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1.
W3C has released an initial public working draft for "Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1," together with a companion WD "Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 Requirements." New functionality has been added in V1.1 to support change marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks. Existing functionality has been extended for graphics scaling, 'markers' and their retrieval in tables to support partial sums, and page number referencing.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-12-17-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
"Web Services and C++." By Peter Lacey (Systinet). In Dr. Dobb's Journal #355 Volume 28, Issue 12 (December 2003), pages 54-58. While there's no shortage of information on how to implement web services using Java, C#, or even Perl, there's little information on how to bring web services to the C++ world. This article closes the gap by showing how to develop SOAP services and clients in C++ using the WASP Server for C++ from Systinet. http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=8944/ddj0312e/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Lacey
"XML 2003 Session Report: Namespace Routing Language." By Uche Ogbuji. From XMLHack.com (December 22, 2003). At the XML 2003 Conference in Philadelphia James Clark followed a block of sessions on ISO Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) with a presentation on Namespace Routing Language (NRL), which is a key contribution to DSDL Part 4: "Selection of validation candidates." http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2125 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#OgbujiNRL
"XML 2003 Conference Diary." By Eric van der Vlist. From XML.com (December 23, 2003). The author of O'Reilly's books on RELAX NG and W3C XML Schema shares his personal view of December's XML 2003 Conference held in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The conference featured several presentations on schema languages and revealed a rise in interest for the Semantic Web, with an increasing number of presentations showing concrete problems solved by its technologies. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/12/23/xml2003diary.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#vdVlistXML2003
"Editing and Authoring: A Structural Adviser for the XML Document Authoring." By Boris Chidlovskii (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France). Pages 203-211 in Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. With 14 references. The author describes a structural adviser for the XML document authoring. The adviser intervenes at any step of the authoring process to suggest one tag or entire tree-like pattern the user is most likely to use next; its suggestions are based on finding analogies between the currently edited fragment and sample data being either previously generated documents in the collection or the history of the current document authoring. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Chidlovskii
"XML and Information Integration: Conceptual Modeling of XML Schemas." By Bernadette Farias Lóscio, Ana Carolina Salgado, and Luciano do Rêgo Galvão (Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil). In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2003) (November 7-8, 2003). This paper presents an extension of the Entity Relationship (ER) model, called X-Entity, for conceptual modeling of XML schemas. The authors also present the process of converting a schema, defined in the XML Schema language, to an X-Entity schema. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#losioSchemas
"Security Analysis of the SAML Single Sign-on Browser/Artifact Profile." By Thomas Gross (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory). Paper presented Thursday, December 11, 2003 at the 19th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (December 8-12, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA). With 21 references. We are convinced that the SAML Single Sign-on Browser/Artifact profile is in general a well-written protocol, and is one of the most carefully designed browser-based protocols in federated identity management. Nevertheless, several changes are required to improve its security and prepare for its broad application in industry. http://www.acsac.org/2003/papers/73.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Gross
"An Editor for Adaptive XML-Based Policy Management of IPsec." By Raj Mohan (Indian Army, India) with Timothy E. Levin and Cynthia E. Irvine (Naval Postgraduate School, USA). Paper presented at the 19th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (December 8-12, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA). With 19 references. The KeyNote Policy Specification language is complicated and could lead to incorrect specification of the desired policy, thus degrading the security of the network. We present an alternative XML representation of this language and a graphical user interface to create and manage a consistent and correct security policy. http://www.acsac.org/2003/papers/26.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Mohan
"An Analysis of XML Database Solutions for the Management of MPEG-7 Media Descriptions." By Utz Westermann and Wolfgang Klas (University of Vienna). In ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Volume 35, Issue 4 (December 16, 2003), pages 331 - 373. [ISSN: 0360-0300] For the management of MPEG-7 media descriptions we see the need for a new generation of XML database solutions which recognize the central importance of exploiting the type information contained in schema definitions for the adequate management of XML documents. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#mpeg7
"Butting Heads Over B2B. ebXML Battles Web services Over Which Will Become the E-Business Platform of Choice." By Paul Desmond. In Network World (December 22, 2003). Desmond argues that users must choose a platform for conducting business online -- Web services or the older but more established electronic business with XML (ebXML). http://www.nwfusion.com/power/2003/1222b2b.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Desmond
"Comparing WSDL-based and ebXML based Approaches for B2B Protocol Specification." By Martin Bernauer, Gerti Kappel, and Gerhard Kramler (Business Informatics Group Business Informatics Group, Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna Universiy of Technology. Presented at the First International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2003), Trento, Italy, 15-18 December 2003. This paper introduces a conceptual framework for B2B protocols, and based on this framework, a methodical comparison of the two [WSDL- based vs ebXML-based] approaches is provided, answering the questions of what the differences are and whether there are chances to achieve interoperability. http://www.big.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2003/1103-slides.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Bernauer
"Beyond Instant Messaging: Platforms and Standards for These Services Must Anticipate and Accommodate Future Developments." By John C. Tang and James "Bo" Begole (Sun Labs). In ACM Queue Volume 1, Number 8 (November 2003), pages 28-37. ACM Queue Special Issue on Instant Messaging. The recent rise in popularity of IM (instant messaging) has driven the development of platforms and the emergence of standards to support IM. In this discussion of 'awareness services' the authors demonstrate how research prototypes that explore future directions can be used to guide and inform current efforts to develop an infrastructure. http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=90 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#TangIM
"Nine IM Accounts and Counting." By Joe Hildebrand (Jabber). In ACM Queue Volume 1, Number 8 (November 2003), pages 44-50. ACM Queue Special Issue on Instant Messaging. The key word with instant messaging today is interoperability, but various standards are in contention. Unlike e-mail, no common standard exists for IM, so users feel compelled to maintain multiple accounts -- for example, AOL, Jabber, Yahoo, and MSN. http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=93 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#HildebrandIM
"On Helicopters and Submarines." By Marshall T. Rose (Invisible Worlds). In ACM Queue Volume 1, Number 8 (November 2003), pages 10-13. Rendezvous protocols are great, and so are data-exchange protocols. The problem is that if you try to build one protocol to perform two fundamentally different jobs, you're going to get a protocol that does neither job well. In other words, SIP and IM are sufficiently different that trying to do them both in the same protocol is problematic. http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=87 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#RoseIM
"Broadcast Messaging: Messaging to the Masses." By Frank Jania (IBM). In ACM Queue Volume 1, Number 8 (November 2003), pages 38-43. ACM Queue Special Issue on Instant Messaging. With respect to messaging, we have an unprecedented number of communication tools that provide both synchronous and asynchronous access to people: E-mail, message boards, newsgroups, IRC (Internet relay chat), and IM (instant messaging) are just a few examples. ICT is a suite of IBM applications that incorporates broadcast messaging and IM; there are five applications for broadcast messaging: w3alert, TeamRing, SkillTap, FreeJam, and PollCast. http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=92 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#JaniaIM
"IM: A Conversation with Peter Ford." By Eric Allman and Peter Ford. In ACM Queue Volume 1, Number 8 (November 2003), pages 18-27. ACM Queue Special Issue on Instant Messaging. Instant messaging (IM) may represent our brave new world of communications, just as e-mail did a few short years ago. Microsoft is moving toward the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as its protocol choice for IM. Providing the Microsoft perspective on IM is Peter S. Ford, chief architect for MSN Messenger. http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=89 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#FordIM
"XML for the Rest of Us. Once Eclipsed by Machine-To-Machine Communications, the Human Factor of XML is Starting to Emerge." By Jon Udell. In InfoWorld (December 19, 2003). XML is a disruptive technology that is almost certainly replumbing the IT infrastructure of that bank. But to those bankers booting up their PCs and sipping coffee in early morning CRT glow, XML is still probably just plumbing -- if that. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/19/50OPstrategic_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#UdellXML2003
"To Boldly Go." By Martin Sexton (London Market Systems). In Financial IT [IncisiveMedia] (October 2003). Since 2000, a number of industry and proprietary XML standards have emerged, raising concerns that there were too many XML vocabularies being developed. This has led to a general misconception that the market is full of competing XML standards, causing many participants to adopt a wait-and-see approach. http://www.londonmarketsystems.com/fit_nov2_2003.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Sexton
"XML: We Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet." By A. Russell Jones (DevX, Executive Editor). In DevX.com XML Zone (December 16, 2003). From interprocess communications to file systems to operating systems, XML is a magic elixir that provides new possibilities and solves a host of ailments. XML's evolution has sparked an explosion of innovation that's touched nearly every facet of computing, even the most basic computing building blocks, such as file systems, databases, displays, and communications. http://www.devx.com/xml/Article/18112 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Jones
"Q&A: Web Services Security." By Jack Vaughan [and Toufic Boubez]. In Appliccation Development Trends (December 01, 2003). Toufic Boubez has a stellar record in Web services, co-authoring UDDI and foundeing Layer 7 Technologies, which recently released SecureSpan to promote Web services security and integration policy creation. Vaughan interviews Boubez on Web services and loosely coupled systems. http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=8523 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Vaughan
"xmltramp and pxdom." By Uche Ogbuji. From XML.com (December 17, 2003). In his Python column, Uche Ogbuji covers "xmltramp", a tool for parsing XML documents into a data structure that's very friendly to Python, and "pxdom", a highlight-compliant, DOM Level 3 implementation. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/12/17/py-xml.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#xmltramp
"Lack of Windows 98 Support Could Have Wide Impact: Study." By Jack Kapica. In The Globe and Mail (December 11, 2003). Many companies are going to find themselves more vulnerable to viruses and security attacks on January 16, 2004, the Canadian AssetMetrix Research Labs says. On that day, Microsoft Corp ceases to offer technical support and security updates for its five-year-old operating system Windows 98. http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031211.gtpcrefreshdec11/BNStory/Technology/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Kapica
"An Open Letter From Jonathan Schwartz." By Jonathan Schwartz (Executive Vice President, Sun Microsystems). From Sun News, Video, and Resources. December 17, 2003. Microsoft's recent unilateral decision to discontinue support for Windows 98 and other products as of December 23, 2003 offers users a lesson in how a company with legendary market dominance can lose sight of customer priorities, and force an unnecessary transition onto a customer base already paralyzed with viruses and security breaches. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/features/schwartz-ms.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Schwartz
"OpenOffice Makes Government Inroads." By Matthew Broersma. In CNET News.com (December 18, 2003). Two significant government bodies, the Israel Department of Commerce and the City of Austin, Texas, are moving toward replacing Microsoft Office installations with the OpenOffice.org productivity suite. This continues a worldwide trend of governments attempting to cut costs with open-source software. http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5128730.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#BroersmaOO
"New Storage Management Specification Key to Managing Multi-Vendor SANs." By Shankar Subramanian. In CNETAsia (December 09 2003). Storage management will take a major step forward this year when SNIA completes work on SMI-S, a specification for a standardized interface for storage management applications. SMI-S specifies a protocol stack consisting of CIM-XML (object descriptions and management actions) over HTTP (session), over TCP (transport), over IP (interconnect). http://asia.cnet.com/itmanager/tech/0,39006407,39160252,00.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#SubramanianSMIS
"DoS Flaw in SOAP DTD Parameter." By Ryan Naraine. From InternetNews.com (December 15, 2003). IBM and Microsoft have released fixes for a potentially serious vulnerability in various Web Services products that could be exploited to trigger denial-of-service attacks; the companies said the vulnerability was caused by an error in the XML parser. http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/3289191 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#SOAPDTD
"OASIS Members Demo Interoperability." By Dave Kearns. In Network World (December 17, 2003). The author references the Liberty Alliance's recent conformance testing results and looks at a more all- encompassing group of interoperability tests being developed by OASIS Technical Committees. http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/dir/2003/1215id2.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Kearns
"Incremental XML Parsing and Validation in a Text Editor." By Uche Ogbuji. From XMLhack.com (December 15, 2003). At XML 2003 in Philadelphia, James Clark presented the ideas and implementation behind his nXML XML editing mode for GNU Emacs. The goal is to provide the user with as many cues as possible to the user as to well- formedness and validity without interfering with the basic text editing, similar to Rick Jelliffe's Topologi XML editor. http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2118 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#nXML
"Incremental XML Parsing and Validation in a Text Editor." By James Clark. Presentation given at XML 2003. A normal XML parser or validator starts at the beginning of the document and processes the entire document. This kind of implementation is not useful for an XML editor since completely reprocessing the document on every edit cannot scale to large documents. To solve this problem, XML processing must work incrementally. http://www.idealliance.org/papers/dx_xml03/papers/04-02-05/04-02-05.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#clarkNXML
"Atom Authentication." By Mark Pilgrim. From XML.com (December 17, 2003). Atom is a new standard that uses XML over HTTP to publish and syndicate web-based content. As a sequel to his article on the Atom API, Mark Pilgrim discusses Atom authentication using extended HTTP authentication and the WSSE Username Token. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/12/17/dive.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#PilgrimAtomAuth
"Roll Your Own Secret Santa Web Application, Part 1: The Beans. A Step-By-Step Guide to the Tools, Technology, Design, and Implementation." By Merlin Hughes. From IBM DeveloperWorks. December 17, 2003. "Merlin Hughes presents the design and implementation of a J2EE-based Web application, along with a discussion of the tools and technologies that can be used to ease the development of such applications. The 3-part series provides a broad overview of how to build a J2EE application from the ground up. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-santa1/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Hughes
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"DMTF Announces New Server Management Working Group. Dell, HP, IBM and Intel Lead Formation of New Effort to Satisfy Customer Server Hardware Management Requirements." http://xml.coverpages.org/DMTF-CIMWG.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
Workshop on XML-Based Richly Annotated Corpora. LREC 2004 Post- Conference Event. May 29, 2004. Lisbon, Portugal. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-12-29-a.html http://coli.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/forschung/xbrac/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#lrec-XML
WWW2004. The Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference. May 17-22, 2004. New York Sheraton, New York, NY, USA. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-09-05-a.html http://www2004.org/ http://www2004.org/cfp/refereed.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#www2004
ODRL International Workshop 2004. April 21 - 23, 2004. Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria. http://odrl.net/workshop2004/ http://xml.coverpages.org/ODRL-Workshop2004.html http://odrl.net/workshop2004/cfp.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#odrl2004 http://xml.coverpages.org/drm.html
XML Europe 2004. "Documenting the Future." April 18 - 21, 2004. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
http://www.xmleurope.com/2004/ http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/contents/2003/11/24-xmleurope/read http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#XMLEurope2004
The Gilbane Conference on Content Management. March 24 - 26, 2004. Los Angeles, CA, USA. http://www.gilbane.com/CM_conference_LA_04.html http://sales.lighthouseseminars.com/lighthouse/conference-grid.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#gilbaneCM200403
DATAX Workshop 2004. International Workshop on Database Technologies for Handling XML information on the Web. March 14, 2004, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. http://xml.coverpages.org/DATAX2004.html http://www.disi.unige.it/person/MesitiM/dataX/ http://www.edbt04.gr/workshops.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#datax2004
AIIM 2004 Conference. March 8 - 10, 2004. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY, USA. http://www.aiim2004.com/ http://www.aiim.org/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#aiim2004
Web Services Edge 2004 East International Conference & Expo. February 24 - 26, 2004. Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA, USA. http://www.sys-con.com/webservicesedge2004east http://www.sys-con.com/webservicesedge2004east/papers.cfm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#wsEdge2004East
OMG Workshop on Deploying Service Oriented Architectures. February 23 - 26, 2004. San Jose, CA, USA. http://xml.coverpages.org/OMG-SOAWorkshop.html http://www.omg.org/news/releases/pr2003/11-10-03.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#omgSOA
SIGS Datacom OOP 2004. "From Technology to Business." January 19 - 23, 2004. International Congress Center Munich (ICM), Germany. http://web.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/oop_2004/index.htm http://web.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/oop_2004/program/program.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#oop2004
Third Annual O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. February 9 - 12, 2004. Westin Horton Plaza San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA. http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/ http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/28/etech04_grid.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#etech2004
National Information Standards Organization's (NISO) Annual Meeting. January 9 - 12, 2004. U.S. Grant Hotel, San Diego, California, USA. http://xml.coverpages.org/NISO-Meetings200401.html http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/NISO-ALA-04.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#niso2004AGM
First International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2003). "The New Computing Paradigm for the Networked World." December 15 - 18, 2003. Trento, Italy. http://www.unitn.it/convegni/icsoc03.htm http://www.unitn.it/convegni/icsoc03_program.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#icsoc2003
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