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APPLICATIONS TRACK
Track
Chairpersons: Robin Tomlin, PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP and Dave Turner, Microsoft Corporation
MONDAY
- December 6, 1999
XML
AND DATA (SCHEMAS AND METADATA)
2:00
pm
Data
Maintenance on the Web Made Easy with XML
Templates
This
session focuses on generating a new maintenance
Web for an SQL table by saving it's attributes
and preferences in an XML template. XSL
transformation will generate and execute
DHTML and server site scripts.
by
Nikita Ogievetsky, Cogitech Inc.
2:45
pm
From
Relational Database to XML
XML
and relational databases are a natural fit.
Many Web developers are now interested in
providing XML data from their current relational
database environment. This session begins
with a discussion about how XML and relational
databases work together. It then describes
the strategy that one relational database,
Oracle8i, provides developers a leg up in
satisfying the increasing demand of access
to information. Using numerous demonstrations,
this talk clearly explains the resources
and features available to developers and
the technical details of how to exploit
them by building XML-enabled applications
for data and documents.
by
Steve Muench, Oracle Corporation
4:00
pm
XML
and Related Standards for Data Warehouses
A
data warehouse approach is used to federate
legacy information systems. XML and related
standards are, however, very well adapted
as a common input and output format. They
also dramatically reduce the development
costs. This session provides details about
the use of Java programming language and
an XML API such as DOM to create a data
warehouse.
by
Philippe Futtersack, Electricité De France
and Didier Bolf, Decancs-Metamor Worldwide
Inc.
4:45
pm
Modeling
an XML Schema
An
XML schema is a new mechanism being defined
by the W3C for formally specifying constraints
on XML. The schema indicates data elements
and attributes, their order, occurrence,
and datatype. Web developers have immediate
requirements to quickly develop XML schemas.
This session provides a methodology by which
developers can quickly interactively model
an XML schema, as well as discusses why
the development of the schema is critical.
by
Lee Buck, Extensibility, Inc.
TUESDAY - December 7, 1999
AUTHORING
XML
9:00
am
From
Word Processor to XML: Authoring the Conference
Proceedings
In
a closed authoring environment, a single
XML-aware tool can be provided to each author
who is expected to provide XML-coded text.
But in many cases, publishers have little
control over the authoring community. Authors
may be scattered and the publisher cannot
require each author to use an XML aware
tool. This session focuses on the procedure
used to create the XML '99 conference proceedings
in XML. It discusses the principles of developing
a word processing template based on an XML
DTD and the transformation of text created
in MS Word, using that template, into both
XML and HTML for the conference CD by using
Interleaf's Bladerunner technology.
by
Dianne Kennedy, XMLXperts!/GCA and Joe Tragert,
Interleaf Corporation
9:45
am
Creating
XML Content to Drive the Web
Modern Web sites are increasingly driven
from databases that contain both traditional
fielded data and XML content. This presentation
discusses several case studies of the use
of XML for this purpose, and the authoring
tools that enable non-technical writers
to create valid XML content for those databases.
by
Bruce Sharpe, Softquad Software Inc.
11:00
am
XML
and Enterprise Information Portals
Enterprise
Information Portals are the current buzzword.
Why? This speaker explains what the hype
is about. This presentation also discusses
the problems of information distribution/contribution,
approaches to this problem and what role
XML does/will play. This talk showcases
a case study of General Motor's Enterprise
Information Portal and explains their business
problem and how an XML-enabled Enterprise
Information Portal was deployed.
by
Norbert Mikula, DataChannel, Inc.
11:45
am
XML
in Next-Generation Web Catalogs: A Real-World
Case
XML
is revolutionizing Web product catalogs
by replacing rigid HTML-centric architectures
with flexible, extensible, dynamic XML ones.
In this presentation, Larry Alston examines
how XML is redefining the entire notion
of Web product catalogs, within the context
of one of the world's most sophisticated
XML Web product catalog deployment: Dell
Computer Corporation's family of Web sites.
by
Larry Alston, eXcelon Division, Object Design,
Inc.
2:00
pm
Building
and Integrating Distributed Web Applications
Using Microsoft Windows
This session outlines how the standards-based
XML services in Microsoft Windows can be
used to develop distributed Windows DNA
applications, from the backend database,
through to the Web server on the middle-tier,
to the browser on the desktop. It also illustrates
how these XML services enable the exchange
of data and integration of both Web and
legacy applications using BizTalk, an open,
collaborative, cross-platform and language
neutral framework for application integration
and electronic commerce.
by
Charlie Heinemann, Microsoft Corporation
2:45
pm
Objects
and XML for Next Generation Web Applications
The presentation focuses on analyzing
the requirements for the next generation
of Web application architectures and presents
a technology roadmap and some initiatives
focused on satisfying these requirements.
The core technology-an XML-based object-oriented
model-is leveraged through a set of services
for distributed data exchange, application
integration, e-commerce, syndication, and
affiliate management.
by
Simeon Simeonov, Allaire Corporation
WEDNESDAY - December 8, 1999
XML
ON THE CLIENT SIDE
9:00
am
On-Line
Help from XML
Lucent
Technologies has developed a system of on-line
help for engineers using XML as a starting
point for data entry. Architecture standards,
single source methodology, and integrated
development platforms address practical
business solutions for information products.
by
Matthew L. Brannon, Lucent Technologies
and Zarella James, ISOGEN International
Corp.
9:45
am
Building
a Client-side Interactive XML Application
For
the past two years RivCom has focused on
finding the best ways to apply client-side
formatting and behavior to XML information.
This session provides a detailed case study
describing how one can merge XSL with declarative
descriptions of the desired runtime behavior,
develop an XML-based activity language to
describe that behavior, build an XSL processor
to integrate styling with behavior, build
a lightweight browser add-on that will host
the XSL processor, and develop stylesheets,
action sheets, and supplemental scripts
that will create the Web front end
for this project.
by
Tony Stewart, Flash Creative Management
11:00
am
Is
XML the Missing Link in Raising Browsers
to a Higher Intelligence?
XML
has the potential to deliver structured
information to the desktop thus enabling
the deployment of truly intelligent browsers
that can utilize it. This presentation examines
how an intelligent browser can use XML tagged
information to mediate between multiple
heterogeneous databases and deliver customized
views of maintenance and spare parts information.
by
Gerald Berger, Mincom Ltd.
11:45
am
State
of the Art: An XML Browser Comparison
This
session provides leading company views of
the state of the art in XML browsing today.
Comparisons from the major browsers and
their approaches to enabling us to view
XML are provided. Actual demonstrations
from Microsoft and Netscape are included
so that the audience can see the latest
in XML browsing first hand.
Moderated by Mark
Walter, Seybold Publications
Charlie Heinemann, Microsoft Corporation
and Nisheeth Ranjan, Netscape Corporation
CORE
STANDARDS TRACK
Track
Chairpersons: Dan Connolly, World Wide Web Consortium
and James Mason, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 and SAIC
MONDAY
- December 6, 1999
2:00
pm
XML
and Digital Signatures
This specification defines syntax and procedures
for the computation, verification, and encoding
of digital signatures using XML. In addition,
it proposes a solution to authenticating
Web resources by means of XML. Learn details
by attending this session.
by
Joseph Reagle, World Wide Web Consortium
2:45
pm
XHTML
XHTML 1.0 is a reformulation of HTML 4.0
as an XML 1.0 application. This session
focuses on the ways XHTML differs from HTML
and why it was developed. The modularization
of XHTML 1.0 into semantic modules and implementation
of the modules through a DTD are highlighted.
Finally the W3C plan to provide tools to
convert HTML documents into valid XHTML
is discussed.
by
Dave Raggett, World Wide Web Consortium
4:00
pm
CSS
This
session introduces the Cascading Stylesheet
standard, CSS. Both the concept of a stylesheet
and why this particular standard enables
styles to "cascade" are discussed.
The latest additions to the CSS specification
are also presented. Learn how to use CSS
with both HTML and XML in this session.
by
Bert Bos, World Wide Web Consortium
4:45
pm
XSL
The newest Web standard for style is known
as eXtensible Style Language. Although XSL
is still on the drawing board, it holds
tremendous potential for interacting with
XML. What is XSL? How is it different from
CSS and DHTML? What is the status and schedule
for this promising W3C standard? This presentation
provides an overview and the latest information
on style specification using XSL.
by
Steve Zilles, Adobe Systems Inc.
TUESDAY - December 7, 1999
9:00
am
SVG
Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG) provides a language
for describing two-dimensional graphics
in XML. SVG describes vector graphic shapes
(e.g., paths consisting of straight lines
and curves), images, and text. SVG enables
us to group, style, transform and composite
graphic objects into previously rendered
objects. SVG drawings can be dynamic and
interactive.The feature set includes nested
transformations, clipping paths, alpha masks,
filter effects, template objects, and extensibility.
SVG works with the Document Object Model
(DOM) to allow for vector graphics animation
via scripting. This session focuses on the
features and uses of SVG.
by
Chris Lilley, World Wide Web Consortium
9:45
am
SMIL
SMIL is a W3C full recommendation, approved
in June 1998, which encodes the hypermedia
presentations distributed over the Web.
It promises to do for interactive multimedia
what HTML did for hypertext. Learn more
about SMIL in this informative session.
by
Dick Bulterman, Oratrix
11:00
am
WebCGM
™
WebCGM™ is a profile of the ISO Computer
Graphics Metafile Standard (ISO/IEC 8632:1992),
tailored to the requirements for scalable
2D vector graphics in electronic documents
on the World Wide Web. Learn from the experts
what is happening in the WebCGM ™
arena today.
by
John Gebhardt, InterCAP and Dieter Weidenbrueck,
ITEDO Software GmbH
11:45
am
RDF
Resource Description Framework (RDF) is
a foundation for processing metadata; it
provides interoperability between applications
that exchange machine-understandable information
on the Web. RDF emphasizes facilities to
enable automated processing of Web resources.
This session examines how RDF enhances processing
on the Web, the benefits associated with
RDF and expectations about the future of
the framework.
by
Ora Lassila, Nokia Research Center
2:00
pm
XPointer
XPointer provides ways to directly identify
any node, data, or selection in any XML
document by describing its structure and
context. An identified data location is
called a "target." The XPointer
specification is particularly meant to enable
hyperlinks to identify any such data, regardless
of whether there is (or even could be) an
ID on the target or not. Learn about the
XPointer language and how it will work with
XLink to provide a new level of Web functionality.
by
Daniel Veillard, W3C, INRIA Rhone-Alpes
2:45
pm
XLink
With
the advent of XML, an improved, more functional
approach to linking is being introduced
as the XLink standard. This session explains
new Web linking concepts and provides a
status report of the new Web linking standards.
by
Daniel Veillard, W3C, INRIA Rhone-Alpes
WEDNESDAY - December 8, 1999
9:00
am
XML
Schema and Datatypes
An XML schema is a mechanism somewhat
analogous to DTDs for constraining document
structure (order, occurrence of elements,
attributes). In addition, specific goals
beyond DTD functionality, such as the specification
of datatypes have been identified within
the scope of XML Schema. This informative
session focuses on the emerging XML schema
language and the proposed mechanism for
specifying datatypes.
by
Michael Sperberg-McQueen, World Wide Web
Consortium/MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
and Murray Maloney, Muzmo Communications
Inc.
9:45
am
XSLT
XSL (Extensible Style Sheet Language) was
posted to W3C as two separate Working Drafts
on April 6. The first part of XSL is now
the specification for XSLT. XSLT is a language
for transforming XML documents into other
XML documents. XSLT was designed to be used
independently of XSL. However, XSLT is not
intended as a completely general-purpose
XML transformation language. Learn more
about XSLT in this session.
by
G. Ken Holman, Crane Softwrights Ltd.
11:00
am
Querying
XML
Today, many people want a standard
way to query XML. One proposed solution
is a query language designed specifically
for XML documents. The logical model for
XML queries is based directly on XML. This
session introduces the issues involved in
querying XML, then outlines current proposals,
which provide a language for specifying
nodes, paths, and conditions based on a
model of logical completeness for the structure
of XML documents.
by
Paul Cotton, IBM Canada Ltd.
11:45
am
DOM
Document
Object Model (DOM) provides us with a uniform
method to interact with XML on an application
level. What is the DOM? What are the levels
of the DOM? How does it guide software developers?
What is the status and schedule for this
W3C standard?
by
Lauren Wood, SoftQuad Software Inc.
eBUSINESS
TRACK
Track
Chairpersons: Phillip Merrick, webMethods, Inc.
and David Webber, Gnosis Incorporated
MONDAY
- December 6, 1999
CASE
STUDIES
2:00
pm
Data
Transport and Management Using XML
This presentation looks at how
Dell manages dell.com, one of the most successful
eCommerce sites on the Web, and how Dell
moves critical eBusiness data between data
sources.
by
John Winfrey, Dell Computer
2:45
pm
Grainger
Connect (sm) - The Virtual Supply Chain
The instructor describes how Grainger,
one of the worlds largest suppliers of Maintenance
Repair and Operating (MRO) supplies, uses
XML to manage access to its rich content
catalog and process purchase orders transmitted
over the Internet.
by
Rick Reese, W.W. Grainger, Inc.
4:00
pm
XML
Based Integration of Trading Partners -
Design Goals, Architecture, and Case Studies
In recent months XML has been successfully
applied to integrate business systems of
trading partners over the Internet. Software
systems on the buyer and the seller side
exchange new XML documents representing
product information and transaction documents
such as orders, shipping documents, or invoices.
This session covers the design goals and
architecture of these software systems and
XML documents and present case studies showing
how they are deployed.
by
Achim Voermanek and Boris Putanec, Ariba
Inc.
4:45
pm
Enabling
B2B eCommerce with XML
Andersen Consulting Technology
Research and Development organization has
been actively exploring business applications
for XML technology since early 1998. The
flexible and extensible nature of XML has
made it a compelling technology when considering
inter-enterprise integration over the Internet.
XML offers new opportunities for improved
information sharing between business partners
regardless of platform or legacy application.
Through applied research and development
activities, Andersen Consulting has pioneered
XML enabled business solutions. In this
session, the speaker introduces a vision
for the role of XML in business-to-business
eCommerce and provides some tangible examples
of solutions which illustrate that vision.
by
Andre Machicao, Andersen Consulting
TUESDAY - December 7, 1999
APPROACHES
9:00
am
XML
in B2B Trading Networks: Linking Customers,
Partners and Portals
Business-to-business eCommerce
is being shaped by the emergence of real-time
trading networks focused around the natural
hubs that grow around large customers, and
the new B2B portals run by third parties
such as Ariba, SAP, VerticalNet, and others.
This presentation looks at this changing
landscape, and the role XML is playing in
forming it.
by
Charles Allen, webMethods, Inc.
9:45
am
XML
and EDI: Combining the Best of Both Worlds
Before the Internet became popular
as a business tool, corporate America made
a huge investment in EDI standards and technology.
EDI still stands today as the primary method
for business-to-business electronic commerce.
XML and related technologies offer new ways
to accomplish similar inter-company messaging
with some advantages and some remaining
challenges. This discussion compares the
two disciplines and brings you up-to-date
on the latest industry efforts to combine
the two technologies for business use.
by
Steve McVey, Sterling Commerce
11:00
am
Next:
BizCodes, BizTokens and BizComponents
The concept of XML/EDI has started
a chain of technology implementations. Now
we need to perform a gap analysis to consider
what we have today, what future paths are
open, what goals to set, and what business
needs are still unfilled. As companies move
to XML based systems what considerations
should be foremost in their implementation
calculations and why? As XML opens up electronic
enterprise pipelines, how can trading partners
leverage today's COTS products and implement
new and interesting capabilities to create
greater business wealth? This session answers
these questions and illustrates a sampling
of noteworthy examples.
by
Bruce Peat, E-Process Solutions Inc.
11:45
am
eCommerce
Standards in the Insurance Industry
The
life insurance and pensions industry in
the United Kingdom is in the process of
moving to business-to-business eCommerce
through the use of XML. The rationale behind
the decision and how the goal is being achieved
is described in this presentation.
by
Anna Harvey, SGML Technologies Group
ARCHITECTURES
2:00
pm
XML's
Impact on A2A and B2B Enterprise Application
Integration
XML's Impact
on A2A and B2B Enterprise Application Integration
XML is having an increasingly substantial
impact on A2A and B2B data sharing and application
integration projects. This session highlights
key technical achievements based on experience
with a major healthcare application pilot
implementation earlier this year as part
of the European ISIS XML/EDI project. The
presentation demonstrates how solutions
in XML can achieve a much superior result
compared with what has been previously been
possible, providing a substantial example
of how new levels of Enterprise Application
Integration will result.
by Andrew Hinchley, Communications Planning
Ltd.
2:45
pm
XML-Based
eBusiness Solution Framework
Now
that most businesses have an eCommerce presence
on the Web, the Internet is ready for its
next major development: Business-to-Business
eCommerce. It involves linking together
thousands of suppliers, distributors, and
retailers within a business community and
for major corporations like NEC, being able
to participate in multiple business communities.
NEC has developed an XML-based solution
framework to address this problem and enable
the rapid development of solutions that
connects NEC's business units to these marketplaces.
This solution is compliant with industry
standards like (OAG, RosettaNet, OBI), business-process
centric, leverages Internet middleware and
relies on a repository of well-formed XML
business documents.
by
Jean-Jacques Dubray, NEC Systems, Inc.
WEDNESDAY - December 8, 1999
TECHNOLOGIES
AND SCHEMAS
9:00
am
BizTalk
Framework: An Overview
BizTalk is a framework based on
XML schemas and industry standards for sharing
information. It will enable businesses to
integrate their systems and processes by
freeing business data from application infrastructure.
This data-focused approach will allow businesses
to easily interchange BizTalk documents
with online trading partners regardless
of the platform, operating system, or underlying
technology of their existing systems. Examples
of BizTalk documents include product catalogs,
purchase orders, product and promotional
information. This session gives a detailed
look at the BizTalk framework and strategy,
including an overview of the participating
partners and industry associations.
by
Speaker TBA
9:45
am
How
XML Enables Internet Trading Communities
and Marketplaces
This presentation describes the
vision of open trading communities or marketplaces
in which buyers and suppliers of goods and
services are linked by the exchange of electronic
documents encoded in XML. The challenges
it describes include the migration from
EDI, the development of "community"
standards for documents, and the interoperability
of documents between trading communities.
by
Robert J. Glushko, Commerce One, Inc.
11:00
am
Migrating
Legacy X12 EDI Systems to XML - Issues,
Ideas, Practical Constraints
This presentation discusses the
implementation and philosophical issues
regarding interchanges between X12 EDI and
XML based systems, based on actual projects
where the business constraints serve to
drive the technology implementation. Real
implementation of XML and EDI leads to a
better understanding of the available options
in designing XML to interact with X12 EDI.
Furthermore there are interoperability conditions
born of the two different mediums.
by
Betty Harvey, Electronic Commerce Connection,
Inc.
11:45
am
Unlocking
the Web's Full Potential with XML Directory
Services
The
presenter describes how directory services
and XML combined to enable companies to
turn their corporate computing infrastructures
into powerful new "Web Interstructures."
These new applications can open up their
companies, connect them more intimately
with customers and channel partners, extend
business processes across company boundaries,
and create new revenue sources.
by
Jack Serfass, Bowstreet
PUBLISHING
WITH XML TRACK
Track
Chairpersons: Beth Micksch, AlignMark, a Thomson
Corporation and Brad Husick, Vignette Corporation
MONDAY
- December 6, 1999
XML:
PRODUCTS AND STANDARDS IN PUBLISHING
2:00
pm
XML
and QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress is an extremely popular precision
design and layout tool for publishers around
the world. While these publishers never
adopted SGML in significant numbers, there
is great interest in capturing data published
in QuarkXPress as XML. Why the change? Are
there tools to do this? What XML support
can we expect in this popular tool? Find
out more in this session.
by
Mark Lemmons, Quark Inc.
2:45
pm
PRISM:
Developing a New XML Metadata Vocabulary
for Magazine and News Publishers
It's no secret that XML's success
depends on wide adoption of efficient industry-specific
vocabularies. PRISM (Publishing Requirements
for Industry Standards Metadata) is an initiative
with an aggressive schedule to develop a
Metadata vocabulary for repurposing, aggregating,
and syndicating magazine and news content.
This talk describes PRISM, reports on its
progress, and explains why the Working Group
members consider this initiative so critical
to their businesses.
by
Linda Burman, L. A. Burman Associates and
Chair, PRISM Working Group, GCARI
4:00
pm
ICE
for Web Syndication
Information & Content Exchange (ICE),
is a protocol designed to facilitate the
controlled exchange and management of electronic
assets between networked partners and affiliates.
Applications based on ICE will enable companies
to easily construct syndicated publishing
networks, Web superstores, and online reseller
channels by establishing Web-site-to-Web-site
information networks. Learn more about ICE
in this session and how publishers can use
ICE to create new syndication models for
the Web.
by
Jay Brodsky, Tribune Media Services
4:45
pm
Adobe
Products and XML
Adobe is launching a new generation of products
that are XML-based. Learn more about how
Adobe uses XML in FrameMaker, InDesign,
Illustrator, and more. Questions about XML
and PDF are addressed in this session. Do
these technologies compete? Or can they
compliment one another? This session is
designed to answer publisher's questions
about XML and Adobe publishing products.
by
Speaker TBA, Adobe Systems Inc.
TUESDAY
- December 7, 1999
PUBLISHING
OPPORTUNITIES USING XML
9:00
am
From
Publishing to Interaction: How to Gain Competitive
Advantage Through XML with Dynamic, Interactive,
and Personalized Content
This session shows how organizations can
not only get out from under today's Web
publishing problems, but also set a direction
to deal with today's eBusiness opportunities.
The key is to leverage XML's remarkable
dual capability to represent both text and
data, which translates into its unique support
for both content and transactions.
by
PG Bartlett, Arbortext, Inc.
9:45
am
Information
Commerce
The Internet has created new opportunities
(and new challenges) for commercial publishers.
This presentation focuses on emerging business
models for Internet, Intranet, and CD-ROM
publishing.
by
Russel W. Young, NextPage Inc.
11:00
am
Building
with XML
The apparent simplicity and power of XML
as a markup language has led to a number
of efforts across PricewaterhouseCoopers
in which XML plays a critical role, enabling
the publication of objects that have the
dual character of text meant for presentation
and of data meant for consumption by programs.
These efforts include a markup language
for describing company financial performance
information, a language for documents that
present complex financial instruments, and
a language for information presented and
used in energy related industries. The talk
covers the ways in which which we and other
companies are building not only better document
systems, but new businesses based on open
standards for publishing documents, and
tools, pitfalls and a few lessons learned,
along with a forecast for the future evolution
of XML and publishing.
by
Walter Hamscher, PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP
11:45
am
XLink
and Publishing Opportunities
The evolving W3C XLink standard offers new
creative and commercial opportunities to
the world of Web publishing. Common practices
in existing relational databases give us
clues about how properly expressed relationships
among existing data are themselves useful
data and hence valuable assets that can
provide the basis for electronic information
products. Be sure to attend this session
to learn the specifics.
by
Bob DuCharme, Moody's Investors Service
2:00
pm
JIFFI,
an XML Standard for Direct-Mail Campaigns
Coordinating the printing, assembly,
and mailing for a direct mail campaign is
a very complex task involving many advertisers
and printers. To facilitate the interchange
of the schedules and printing instructions
to support direct mailing, the Promotion
Graphics Council of GCA has developed the
Job Instruction File Format for Industry
(JIFFI)— an electronic production order
specification. This new GCA standard formalizes
the specification of the collection of data
elements that fully describe the components,
their interaction and printer actions required
in a direct mail campaign. JIFFI also enable
mailers and suppliers to receive timely
information on the production status of
various printing jobs. In this session,
learn how XML is used to coordinate direct
mail campaigns.
by
Cameron Bellamy, Columbia House
2:45
pm
The
XML Niche in Distributed Publishing
This session looks at the benefits of using
XML as an output/viewing format for information
stored in SGML. A case study is presented
as an example of how XML and SGML can co-exist
in a distributed SGML publishing environment.
by
Jeremy Squires and Pam Jones, Microstar
Software Ltd.
WEDNESDAY
- December 8, 1999
CASE
STUDIES: XML IN THE REAL WORLD
9:00
am
Online
Publishing Using Topic Maps: The Case of
the "Quid" Encyclopaedia
Finding relevant information quickly and
reliably has always been a major challenge.
Traditional navigational aids are not appropriate
when dealing with high volumes of information.
The need for more powerful methods of navigation,
and more control over the way information
is intended to be navigated, has given rise
to the Topic Maps model, (ISO/IEC 13250).
This presentation explains in a straightforward,
and non-technical way, how Topic Maps can
provide dramatically improved navigation
for online publishers using XML, HTML or
even PDF. The online version of the famous
yearly French encyclopaedia, "Quid",
is presented as an example of a Topic Map
implementation. The CD ROM containing the
proceedings for this conference is also
used as another example.
by
Michel Biezunski, Infoloom and Fabrice Fremy,
Quid
9:45
am
Using
XML to Simplify Authoring: A Case Study
for Customer Support Documentation at Ascend
Communications
This presentation describes an XML-based
authoring and Web publishing application
developed for Ascend Communications. The
application makes use of XML to improve
and simplify the process of writing and
publishing support documents to a technical
support Web site.
by
Arofan Gregory, Commerce One and Jeff Quiggle,
Documentum, Inc.
11:00
am
Saturn
Technical Publications: A Case Study with
a Customer Focus
The technical service information from Saturn
Corporation, a division of General Motors,
has been ranked by J. D. Power as the best
in the automotive service industry. Saturn
attributes this success to their corporate
philosophy and values that focus heavily
on meeting the customer's needs. This presentation
is a case study of the new XML-based publishing
system at Saturn. The speaker discusses
the benefits of using a customer-focused
incremental development life cycle for implementing
XML for technical authoring and presents
a summary of lessons learned.
by
Jean Mercedes Hamilton, SPX Valley Forge
Technical Information Services
11:45
am
XML-Based
Intranet Archival Documentation System
This presentation describes an XML based
system implemented on a corporate Intranet,
for authoring, storing, indexing, browsing,
and searching documentation about television
and radio archive of broadcasted and recorded
program. Such a system is very important
for a radio television broadcast company,
because a significant part of the program
is based on archived materials. An XML-based
Intranet solution for system for radio and
television program archival documentation
is presented in this presentation. The usage
of XML for authoring, searching and displaying
documents through a Web browser on an Intranet
is also discussed.
by
Drazen Tomac, Croatian Radio Television
TECHNICAL
TRACK
Track
Chairpersons: Doug Tidwell, IBM Corporation
and Norbert Mikula, DataChannel, Inc.
MONDAY
- December 6, 1999
CASE
STUDIES
2:00
pm
Using
XML in a Software Diagnostic Tool
Many
software diagnostic and debugging tools
such as our VMView Java execution tracing
tool produce output text. The use of XML-based
output greatly facilitates the filtering,
searching, and presentation of this data.
This session focuses on this tool in detail.
by
Alden Dima, National Institute of Standards
and Technology
2:45
pm
Using
XML to Model SPOT 5 Satellite Image Metadata
This
presentation shows how XML is used to encode
metadata for SPOT 5 satellite imagery, and
what advantages can be gained from XML adoption
with respect to traditional approaches.
by
Francois Chahuneau, AIS S. A. and Christophe
Angleraud, Spot Image
4:00
pm
XML
Programming Models for Electronic Commerce
Systems
This
presentation contrasts different programming
models for XML documents. A new typed programming
model and how its characteristics match
the requirements of electronic commerce
systems is discussed.
by
Jari Koistinen, Commerce One, Inc.
4:45
pm
Using
XML to Serve a Million Customers a Million
Custom Pages
IBM's
DeveloperWorks site is pushing the boundaries
of what Web portals can do. In this session,
Doug explains how IBM uses XML and our content
management system to deliver over a million
custom Web pages a week to a million different
customers.
by
Doug Tidwell, IBM Corporation
TUESDAY - December 7, 1999
LINKING
SYSTEMS
9:00
am
Implementing
a Component Broker Using XMI
The
XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) standards
has been adopted by the Object Management
Group for the exchange of information models
between software tools. The speaker discusses,
in this session, a prototype system that
uses XMI to construct a Web-based model
translator and component broker service.
by
Dave Carlson, Ontogenics Corp.
9:45
am
Leveraging
Standards to Create APIs
This presentation reviews how the use of
standard protocols can save time and money
for developing open tools. By creating APIs
using these standards, an organization can
focus on product data rather than on implementing
libraries and communicating the use of these
libraries.
by
Howard Rafal, Banta Integrated Media
11:00
am
XML-Based
Linking Concepts
Linking
concepts vary from the simple "see
also..." cross-reference link to very
sophisticated link networks like topic maps.
Electronic documents will make use of all
kinds of links. The presentation gives an
overview of the different aspects that have
to be taken into account when designing
linking methods for electronic information,
summarises of the possibilities given in
linking languages such as XLink and XPointer,
propose different ways to create, manage,
and maintain networks of links, and highlight
important applications of links.
by
Martina Hemrich and Ulrike Schaefer, STEP
Electronic Publishing Solutions GmbH
11:45
am
XUL:
An XML Update Language
In
this session the speaker presents a general
purpose XML update language, called XUL.
The purpose of XUL is to provide a standardized
representation of the difference between
documents, in a language that is at the
same time easy to read and efficient to
process.
by
Francisco Curbera, IBM Research
QUERYING
AND UPDATING
2:00
pm
Combining
and Querying XML Data with XQL
XQL is a query language for XML; it has
been implemented for XML repositories, XML-based
middleware, Unix-style filtering of XML
documents, Perl libraries for manipulating
XML documents, and DOM libraries. This presentation
explores new features that have been added
to XQL to allow users to combine information
from multiple sources, use the relationships
expressed in links as part of a query, and
search based on text containment.
by
Jonathan Robie, Software AG
2:45
pm
Designing
and Developing XML Based Server Forms
Learn the next generation of Web-centric
database and document development. At this
session, the speaker discusses the technical
issues of creating XML-based server forms
and demonstrates the power of using XSL
and XQL to transform XML into HTML or to
transfer specific XML data for use in an
electronic data transfer language.
by
Mike Dierken, DataChannel, Inc.
WEDNESDAY - December 8, 1999
DATA,
METADATA AND OTHER FORMS OF DATA
9:00
am
CARD:
An XML Schema for Relational Databases and
their Data
Moving
relational data to an XML document can be
very useful. The XML can be sent down the
wire to a browser where DHTML is used to
view the XML data in a different way according
to the needs of each user. Most major database
vendors now support XML functionality in
their products. However, when their data
is exported to XML, the context
of that data from a relational standpoint
is lost. For example, when a table is exported,
the XML does not describe which column of
data was the primary key. The applications
consuming the XML data have no means of
knowing the original business rules of the
data, in this case uniqueness. In order
for applications to fully understand the
relational data, the XML document would
also need to contain relational database
information such as primary keys and data
types. As a solution, infoShark presents
the CARD XML Schema. The main goal of the
CARD schema is to provide a common means
for describing a relational database's schema
and data so that relational databases, non-relational
data stores, and software applications could
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