| Track
Chairpersons: |
Jeanne
El Andaloussi, Director of Operations, AIS - Berger-Levrault
Document Engineering |
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David
Turner, XML Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation
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| Track
Consultant: |
G.
Ken Holman, CTO, Crane Softwrights, Ltd. |
This track is designed to provide an "A" to
"Z" guide to building an XML Web site. It will
encompass all aspects of an XML Web site development process
from site designing to using Java and XML. In addition,
presentations focusing on key W3C Recommendations such
as the DOM, SMIL, SVG, and XSLT should be included. |
TUESDAY
• DECEMBER 5, 2000
2:00
pm
Design an XML Web Site: The Basics
Originally designed to solve the Web's problems, Web developers
have much to gain from a properly designed site based on
XML. In this session, attendees learn how to design Web
sites that use XML to solve both client- and server-side
problems. Specifically, you learn how XML can be used to
improve site navigation, ease maintenance problems, and
to enhance the rendering of Web pages in all browsers no
matter what their current capabilities. Attendees are also
introduced to Rocket, a freely available framework that
can serve as the basis for creating your own XML-based Web
site.
by Todd Headrick, CTO & Carl Tyler, Director
of Development, Infoteria
2:45
pm
"Proven, Practical Methods for Applying XML Technology to
Internet Sites"
Application developers are only beginning to see how much
they can do with XML and where they can apply it. This session
explores demonstrated approaches and available XML technology
for Internet, intranet and extranet sites; practical usage
pointers; and, actual case history data of implementation
and business benefits. Attendees will walk away with ten
strategic action items for applying XML to their own Web
sites.
by Keith Boone, Architect, eBusiness Technologies
4:00
pm
Adoption Strategies for Existing XML Vocabularies
One of the critical decisions to be made in building an
XML web site is to decide upon an XML vocabulary. The most
obvious option is to select an existing vocabulary. This
presentation provides strategies for locating, reviewing,
and selecting just the XML vocabulary to adopt.
by Duane Nickull, Founder/President/CTO, XML Global
Technologies
4:45
pm
Data Modeling and XML Vocabulary Development
This presentation focuses on the design of XML vocabularies.
It highlights the process of data analysis for XML and the
creation of an XML tagging vocabulary.
by Debbie Lapeyre, Vice President, Mulberry Technologies,
Inc.
WEDNESDAY
• DECEMBER 6, 2000
ADDING
XML TO YOUR SITE
11:00
am
Providing XML Content for Your Web Site
This session discusses the issues of developing XML content
for your Web site. The speaker discusses the role of XML
content on a Web site, new infrastructures that are needed
to support XML on the Web site, how to prepare existing
content in XML for the Web site, and how best to prepare
for the demands of constantly merging new and legacy data,
as well as key things to watch for when designing your data
requirements.
by Mark Gross, President/CEO, Data Conversion Laboratories
11:45
am
Exploiting XSLT Extension Elements for Sites and Applications
Beyond basic transformations, by leveraging XSLT extension
elements, web designers can use XSLT as a powerful "XML
Server Pages" application-building paradigm. This presentation
walks through the details of how to take advantage of this
little-known feature of the XSLT 1.0 standard.
by Steve Muench, Lead XML Evangelist, Oracle Corporation
2:00
pm
Repurpose Your Data! An Introduction to the Use of XML,
XSLT, and HTML
In this session, we study the key role that XSL plays in
Web and e-Business applications for XML Vocabulary conversions
and generating HTML from XML data. We look at some of the
reasons that XSL is needed, as well as several types of
applications and where XSL fits in the architecture. Mark
includes a brief overview of XSL, XPath, and XSL Formatting
Objects, as well as some of the emerging tools for developing
XSL style sheet and transformation scripts.
by Mark Colan, XML Evangelist & Technologist,
IBM Corporation
2:45
pm
XML and Visual Basic
The flexible and standards-based data description that XML
provides can easily be used with Visual Basic. For example,
XML can be used for importing data from other systems, passing
data from the client to the server in a multi-tier environment,
or for storing user settings. This presentation is designed
to show the VB community how to take advantage of XML technology.
by Charlie Heinemann, Lead Program Manager, XML Technologies,
Microsoft Corporation
4:00
pm
OASIS XSLT/XPATH Conformance
An OASIS Technical Committee has been formed to collect,
document, and develop a test suite for conformance testing
of XSLT and XPath processors. This presentation overviews
the work and status of the committee. It also provides an
explanation of what this conformance means to those implementing
XSL in the real world.
by David Marston, Lotus Development Corp. & Member
of OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Committee
4:45
pm
Creating Interactive Web Forms from XML Documents
This paper explains the visual creation of a Web form from
an XML document. XML Form Designer can be used to (i) create
XSL style sheets in a WYSIWYG environment, (ii) define input
assistance rules that provide interactive help functions
for the Web forms, and (iii) add an XML digital signature
function to the Web forms without any programming.
by Yoshinori Aoki, Researcher, IBM Tokyo Research
Lab
THURSDAY
• DECEMBER 7, 2000
XML
ON THE SERVER SIDE
11:00
am
Using Java, XML, SAX, XSLT in "Style Free" Style Sheets
One of the most often marketed advantages of XML is the
separation between content and the layout; XML representing
content and a style sheet to specify layout. Today XSLT,
the most widely used portion of the XSL style sheet specification
has led to a massive injection of logic within style sheets.
This mixing of presentation and logic is becoming questionable.
In this presentation, a simple technique to isolate most
of the presentation outside XSLT, "style free style sheets"
is presented. This technical presentation demonstrates,
relying on concrete implementation examples, a possible
use of the core technologies (Java, XML, SAX, XSLT) as the
central element to create dynamic Internet portals while
achieving a better separation between data, logic and presentation.
by Eric van der Vlist, CEO, Dyomedea
11:45
am
The Need for XML Services in the Windows Development Platform
When building an XML-based application in a multilingual
environment, the development effort will be simplified when
the same core, and enhanced, XML services and interfaces
can be accessed from different programming languages. This
presentation focuses on how developers have access to these
features as a core set of services on the Windows platform.
You see demonstrations showing support for some of the newest
W3C standards including XML schemas (XSD), examples showing
how to optimize XML throughput caching schema and transform
caching, and code samples showing access to these and other
services, including DOM and SAX2, from multiple programming
languages.
by Charlie Heinemann, Lead Program Manager, XML Technologies,
Microsoft Corporation
2:00
pm
XML on the Server: XML, JSP and Tag Extension
XML, JSP and tag extension form a powerful trio in dynamic
e-commerce web sites. This article illustrates how the combined
use of these technologies help create powerful XML-based
web sites. It also introduces a XML tag extension library
available in Allaire JRun 3.0.
by Clement Wong, Senior Software Engineer, Allaire
Corporation
2:45
pm
XML and ASP
Active Server Pages is an open, compile-free application
environment in which you can combine HTML, scripts, and
reusable ActiveX server components to create dynamic and
powerful Web-based business solutions. Learn how to use
ASP with XML in this session by Dr. Frank Boumphrey, author
of "XML Unleashed".
by Frank Boumphrey, Author / Consultant
4:00
pm
Leveraging XML for Inter-enterprise Data integration
Enterprises have expended a tremendous effort to get “good
data” into corporate databases. However, this data is not
readily available to conduct eBusiness. Furthermore, once
the data is “freed” from relational storage and format,
a new set of challenges prohibits effective bi-directional
data flow. Throughput has always been a challenge for Internet
usage since we readily consume any bandwidth that we invent.
And once we achieve optimal data flow, we still have to
deal with synchronization issues. This presentation examines
the problem of bi-directional relational data flow in more
detail as well as offers a new approach to data management,
semantic translation, and efficient transport over the Web
that capitalizes on the capabilities of XML.
by Barbara Bouldin, CTO & Founder, infoShark, Inc.
4:45
pm
Bringing the Internet to your Database: Using SQLServer
2000 and XML to build loosely-coupled systems
This presentation focuses on how to provide the basic technology
to enable a relational database to become a component in
a loosely-coupled system. It provides an overview of the
features needed to provide access via HTTP, transform relational
query results into XML, provides queryable and updateable
XML views, how to provide rowset abstractions over XML to
shred XML into relations, and how to bulk load XML data
into a relational database. The presentation discusses how
these features can be used for website development and any-to-any
data interchange and emphasizes the ease-of-use of building
XML views.
by Michael Rys, Program Manager, SQLServer XML Technologies,
Microsoft Corporation
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