Program Details

XML 2005 will have multiple concurrent tracks. A full Schedule-at-a-Glance is now available for this year's program or you can use the following links to visit individual program days.

We have also reserved two special tracks specifically for Late Breaking News and Product Presentations. See details below:

Special Tracks

Late Breaking News - The Planning Committee will be reserving a number of speaking spots on the program for "Late-Breaking News Sessions". These presentations are reserved for developments "So New" that they could not be proposed by the previous conference session submission deadline. These session will be awarded at the discretion of the conference chair and program committee. Deadline to submit late-breaking news presentations is September 16, 2005.
Product Presentations - The Planning Committee will be reserving a number of speaking spots on the program for "Product Presenations". Product presentations are forums used by the XML developers and product suppliers. Deadline to submit late-breaking news presentations is September 16, 2005.

XML 2005 Conference sessions are geared for:

High Level Audience - suitable for attendees who wish to see the "big picture". Sessions are designed to give an overview of a topic, discuss the business aspects of a technology, and/or cover a number of related topics. These sessions may contain some technical content, but will not include in-depth technical detail.
Technical Audience - suitable for attendees who wish to go into detail about a specific topic. Sessions will be structured for a more technical audience. Attendees will probably require some prior knowledge of the subject to fully understand the contents.
High Level/Technical Audience - suitable for all attendees. These sessions will be geared toward all audience levels and will contain presentations that include both "big picture" discussions along with some technical content.

Keynote Speakers

Soumitra Sengupta, Product Unit Manager, WebData XML Team, Microsoft Corporation, USA

Plugging into the Pervasive XML Infrastructure
Soumitra Sengupta will speak about the logical steps in XML infrastructure; where we are, and where we're heading.

Bio: Soumitra Sengupta is a Product Unit Manager in the SQL Server organization at Microsoft, responsible for the WebData XML team that implements the core XML technologies. Previously he was co-founder and CTO of B-Bop Associates, which produced a native XML interface on top of relational DBMS.p>

Steven G. Harris, Vice President, Java Platform Group, Server Technologies, Oracle

XML and Web Services: A Blueprint for Next Generation Applications
This presentation will discuss the challenges that organizations must overcome in dealing with the complexity of modern application architectures and show how XML and Web Services play a pivotal role in the modern application blueprint.

Bio: Mr. Harris has degrees from George Washington University and UC Berkeley. After more than 10 years in scientific and engineering computing and consulting areas, he spent three years working on document management and systems integration. In 1993, he co-founded a software startup providing an object-oriented database product to Smalltalk developers (a precursor to Java). He sold the company to ParcPlace-Digitalk and served as VP of Engineering of that publicly-held company. He joined Oracle in 1997 to manage development of the Java virtual machine for the Oracle8i release. Since then, his role has expanded to include the entire J2EE platform in the Oracle Application Server product. This includes EJB, Servlets, JSPs, JDBC drivers, SQLJ, TopLink, and web services support in both the application server and database.

Jim Hendler, Professor, University of Maryland & Director of Semantic Web and Agent Technology, Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory

From Atoms to OWLs the new ecology of the Semantic Web
Over the past couple of years, Semantic Web deployment has really started rolling. Successes have included adoption of RDF by major corporations and the development of new ontology-based technologies of use for many enterprise and web applications. Despite this, controversy still seems to abound with respect to both the relationship of the Semantic Web to XML, and the use of these technologies. This talk will explain what the Semantic Web is all about and, perhaps more importantly, attempt to dispel two pervasive myths -- that XML and the Semantic Web are incompatible, and that XML is able to do all that the Semantic Web promises without reinventing the semantic extensions inherent in RDF and OWL.

Bio: Jim Hendler is a Professor at the University of Maryland and the Director of Semantic Web and Agent Technology at the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory. He has joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science, the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and is an affiliate of the Institute for Systems Research. He has authored about 200 technical papers in the areas of artificial intelligence, Semantic Web, agent-based computing and high performance processing. Hendler was the recipient of a 1995 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, is a former member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board, and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is also the former Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), was awarded a US Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal in 2002, and is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web Coordination Group. He is the Editor in Chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems and is on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science

David Megginson, Principal, Megginson Technologies Ltd.

Everyone's using XML, but does anyone care?
XML-based applications like blog syndication and recomposable web sites are changing the way we use the web and the way we live our lives. Why isn't it easy, then to answer the question "does XML matter"?

Bio: David Megginson, principal of Megginson Technologies, has been active within the SGML and, later, XML communities since 1991. He led the original initiative that created SAX, the Simple API for XML, which is now the most widely used streaming API for XML and has been implemented in products by IBM, Oracle, Apache, and Sun, along with many others.

David's work includes consulting and development for many companies and organizations, a large number of Open Source software packages, and two books: Structuring XML Documents (1998) and Imperfect XML (2004).

David formerly chaired the XML Information Set Working Group at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and served as a member of the W3C's XML Working Group and XML Coordination Group.

In Spring 2000, David was proud to receive the Java Technology Achievement Award For Outstanding Individual Contribution to the Java Community from Sun Microsystems and JavaPro magazine.

Outside of XML, David is an instrument-rated private pilot.

Robert Picciano, Vice President, Data Management, IBM Corporation

The future of XML Information Management
This presentation will discuss how XML is changing the definition of 'Information Management' and the challenges associated with this change. XML provides endless opportunities when it comes to solving complex data issues companies face today from data integration to implementation of Service Oriented Architectures(SOA). Companies that choose to exploit the advantages of XML will undoubtly gain an edge over their competitors but will also be required to solve the challenges around how to best manage and service XML data without compromising data security and integrity.

Bio: Bob Picciano is Vice President of Database Servers for IBM’s Information Management Division. In this unique and broad capacity, Mr. Picciano is the responsible business line executive for IBM’s highly successful database portfolio of software products; including the DB2 Family, Informix IDS, Cloudscape, RedBrick, and Informix XPS. Mr. Picciano oversees the product line and technology landscape to ensure that IBM maintains its position of leadership; as well as oversees the associated marketing, sales, services and technical support aspects aligned with database software. Mr. Picciano reports directly to Janet Perna, IBM’s Information Management General Manager and Senior Executive. He is also a member of IBM’s Senior Leadership Team, providing guidance to the corporation and across IBM.

As IBM’s Vice President of Database Technology, Mr. Picciano led the worldwide development and maintenance of IBM’s award winning DB2 UDB on all Linux, Windows and Unix platforms. DB2 UDB is the foundation of e-business applications and is used by over 3,000,000 customers worldwide to leverage information. Mr. Picciano was the Senior Information Management Executive for IBM Canada and performed his worldwide DB2 duties while on international assignment leading the team from IBM’s Toronto Software Development Laboratory in Markham Canada.

Mr. Picciano earned his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University in 1987. He first entered IBM as a programmer in Bethesda, Maryland, developing advanced workstation based SGML editor products.

Tuesday, November 15

9:00 AM

Opening Keynote: From Atoms to OWLs the new ecology of the Semantic Web
Track: Keynote
Audience: High Level View
Over the past couple of years, Semantic Web deployment has really started rolling. Successes have included adoption of RDF by major corporations and the development of new ontology-based technologies of use for many enterprise and web applications. Despite this, controversy still seems to abound with respect to both the relationship of the Semantic Web to XML, and the use of these technologies. This talk will explain what the Semantic Web is all about and, perhaps more importantly, attempt to dispel two pervasive myths -- that XML and the Semantic Web are incompatible, and that XML is able to do all that the Semantic Web promises without reinventing the semantic extensions inherent in RDF and OWL.
Presenter(s): Jim Hendler, Professor, University of Maryland, USA

9:45 AM

Opening Keynote: XML and Web Services: A Blueprint for Next Generation Applications
Track: Keynote
Audience: High Level View
This presentation will discuss the challenges that organizations must overcome in dealing with the complexity of modern application architectures and show how XML and Web Services play a pivotal role in the modern application blueprint.
Presenter(s): Steve Harris, Vice president, Java Platform Group, Oracle Corporation, USA

11:00 AM

The PC's PI Guide to Deploying XML
Track: Deploying XML
Audience: High Level View
The XML 2005 Planning Committee will discuss many of the common deployment scenarios for XML.
Presenter(s): Sharon Adler, Senior Manager, IBM Research, USA; Michael Champion, Program Manager, Microsoft, USA; Jim Melton, Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corp., USA; Brand Niemann, Computer Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA

A Close Look at the Compact XML Schema-Aware XML Processing Framework
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
In this paper, we will provide an overview on the existing compact XML technologies and discuss the project building compact schema-aware XML processing framework.
Presenter(s): Jinyu Wang, Sr. Product Manager, Oracle Corporation, USA

Implementing a Government-wide Semantic Solution to Thesauri
Track: Government
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This presentation describes the development of a common RDF-based SKOS, XSLT, and XSL-FO thesaurus solution applicable to any government agency that leverages ISO standards to express concepts, extract associated terms, and broader or narrower terms.
Presenter(s): Kenneth Sall, XML Data and Systems Analyst, SAIC, USA & Ronald P. Reck, Consultant RRecktek LLC, USA

Linking Outside the Box
Track: Publishing
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The DocBook community has implemented a powerful and versatile cross referencing system that lets you wire together a collection of documents with maintainable links. Olinks reach further than ID/IDREFs, and are easier to maintain than URLs.
Presenter(s): Bob Stayton, Principal Consultant, Sagehill Enterprises, USA

XML Masters Series: Web Services
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: Technical View
See XML Masters Series page.
Presenter(s): Furrukh Khan, Professor, Ohio State University, USA

Going From Disparate Data to BI
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Many enterprises revisit business data for operational insight. And while data is generated and stored in different silos, ODBC, OLE DB, and XML enable enterprises to leap from stratified content management to corporate business intelligence.
Presenter(s): Phil Storey, Senior Sales Engineer, Datawatch Corp., USA

11:45 AM

Real World XML - Higher Education Single Sourcing Course Catalogs with XML
Track: End-User Applications
Audience: High Level/Technical View
CMS is revolutionizing the way higher education handle online content. So why are most universities still managing their course catalogs by hand? Join the author for an in-depth look at how XML can improve a university beyond its website.
Presenter(s): David Cummings, Chief Executive Officer & President, Founder, Hannon Hill Corporation, USA

Performance in XML Application Data Structures
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: Technical View
An investigation of the performance impact of XML APIs, with a view to imroving overall efficiency of the XML processing stack.
Presenter(s): Eric Perkins, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA

The US Federal CIO Council's Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice
Track: Government
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) has made considerable progress towards implementations of semantic technologies and web standards in the U.S. government with a series of white papers, conferences, and pilot projects.
Presenter(s): Brand Niemann, Computer Scientist, US EPA, USA

Handling Math in Real-World Workflows: Practical Lessons
Track: Publishing
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The use of XML in STM publishing is growing, but one of the unique challenges is how to handle embedded mathematics. In this presentation, we will present some practical lessons Design Science has garnered from working with early adopters of MathML.
Presenter(s): Bob Mathews, Director of Training, Design Science, Inc., USA

XML Masters Series: Web Services (Continued from 11:00am)
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: Technical View
See XML Masters Series page.
Presenter(s): Furrukh Khan, Professor, Ohio State University, USA

XML Marks the Spot: XML Helps Move Knowledge from Books to Bytes
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The technological advantages relating to automatic book scanning have had a clear impact on sharing information quickly and accurately. With advanced search/data management with XML, there is increased accessibility to information that is scanned.
Presenter(s): Lotfi Belkhir, CEO, Kirtas Technologies Inc, USA

2:00 PM

Federated Identity Management: An Overview of Concepts and Standards
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This talk will explore how the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and Liberty Alliance standards are being used to solve the problem of secure, personalized, seamless transactions that remain privacy-sensitive.
Presenter(s): Eve Maler, Technology Director, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA

Modeling Methods and Artifacts for Crossing the Data/Document Divide
Track: Metadata and Semantics
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This paper synthesizes the complementary ideas from document analysis and data modeling, emphasizing what they have in common with analysis and modeling methods, tools, and artifacts that span the data/document divide in XML vocabularies.
Presenter(s): Robert Glushko, Adjunct Professor, School of Information Management and Systems, USA

Developing vocabularies with multiple distributed teams
Track: Collaboration
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Collaborative development and evolution of XML vocabularies across multiple development teams is technically very difficult to manage. This paper describes a methodology and supporting technology to support collaboration across multiple teams.
Presenter(s): Adrian Pasciuta, Technical Director, DigitalML Ltd., UK

PubMed Central: An XML-based archive of life sciences literature at the NLM
Track: Deploying XML
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This paper details challenges faced building the NIH's archive of journal literature, PubMed Central.
Presenter(s): Jeff Beck, Technical Information Specialist, National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA

XJ: Integrating XML and Java
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
XJ (XML Enhancements for Java) is a research language that extends Java with first-class support for Java. We will show how XJ supports more robust and efficient development of XML-based applications.
Presenter(s): Mukund Raghavachari, Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

TigerLogic XML Data Management Server - The Power Behind An SOA
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This talk will present TigerLogic, a pioneering native XML data management server as the most logical approach for storing SOA data, as this data is basically XML.
Presenter(s): Ash Parikh, Director of Development and Technology, Raining Data Corporation, USA & Premal Parikh, Lead Architect/Team Lead, Enterprise Applications Group, Raining Data Corporation, USA

2:45 PM

Liberty Federation Deployment Case Study
Track: Case Studies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Presentation covers Sun's first deployment of Liberty which created a single signon circle of trust between Sun and an external application service provider. Presentation will cover project goals, technical architecture, and lessons learned.
Presenter(s): Yvonne Wilson, Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA

Best Practices for XML Schema Evolution in Application Development
Track: Deploying XML
Audience: Technical View
Want to modify your XML Schema without breaking your existing code base? This session describes the practical approaches to enterprise application design that allow your XML Schema to evolve over time and presents examples from J2EE applications.
Presenter(s): Adam FitzGerald, Principal Technologist, BEA Systems, USA

Lost in the Semantics: Presenting Semantic Markup
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Semantic markup is making the web more machine-readable; but potentially it places much more machine-interpretation between content authors and their audiences. This paper looks at the trust issues involved and the shape of some potential solutions.
Presenter(s): Lucian Holland, Technical Architect, DecisionSoft Ltd, UK

Models and Messages: Insights from the HL7/OMG Services Specification Project
Track: Deploying XML
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The Services Specification Project is a joint venture in healthcare standards between HL7 and OMG. This paper brings out a number of issues regarding the foundations of interoperability, in the interplay of models and syntax.
Presenter(s): Ann Wrightson, Principal Consultant, CSW Group Ltd, UK

Microsoft's Language Integrated Query and XML
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
We present the newly announced Language Integrated Query (LINQ) features of a future .NET, and demonstrate its XML support in C# and Visual Basic.
Presenter(s): Soumitra Sengupta, Product Unit Manager; Michael Champion, Program Manager & Erik Meijer, Architect, Microsoft WebData XML - Microsoft Corporation, USA

Bulletproofing Web Services
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: Technical View
This presentation will illustrate the solid engineering and testing practices required to ensure complete Web service functionality, interoperability, and security.
Presenter(s): Wayne Ariola, Vice President of Corporate Development, Parasoft Corporation, USA

4:00 PM

The session concept for Web Services
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: Technical View
WS-Addressing and WS-Context propose different models for session-oriented Web Services. The important difference of these approaches is the degree of coupling between session participants. In this presentation we shall compare and contrast the models.
Presenter(s): Greg Pavlik, Consultant Member of Technical Staff, Oracle, USA

Names, Namespaces, XML Languages and XML Definition Languages
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
We need names for and descriptions of (multiple versions of) XML languages, their constituents and relationships. This paper distinguishes between XML languages and XML definition languages, and explores ways to name the things definition languages define.
Presenter(s): Henry Thompson, Reader, University of Edinburgh, UK

Benefits of Avoiding Runtime/Build-Time Distinctions for Metadata Vocabularies
Track: Metadata and Semantics
Audience: Technical View
Flexible use of schemas and modular metadata can leverage common tools and facilitate interoperability that are not apparent when focusing on runtime vs. build-time distinctions
Presenter(s): Kenneth Laskey, Lead Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, USA

The Atom Publishing Protocol: Publishing Web Content with XML and HTTP
Track: Collaboration
Audience: Technical View
The Atom Publishing Protocol is an emerging interface for editing content. The interface is RESTful and uses XML and HTTP to define a protocol that's easy to implement and extend. History, basic operation, and applications outside weblogs will be covered.
Presenter(s): Joe Gregorio, President, BitWorking, Inc, USA

Syntax, Semantics & Standards: Model for a National Health Information Network
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level View
Report on the governance, architecture and deployment of a National Health Information Network. Presentation focuses on common semantic models and their relationship to XML and Java, supporting rapid development, flexibility and interoperability.
Presenter(s): Liora Alschuler, Consultant, alschuler.spinosa, USA

UDDI and ebXML from One Registry
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Introducing the Service Registry, part of the Sun Java(TM) Enterprise System, which is a fully featured ebXML Registry/Repository with an additional UDDI 3.02 Inquiry interface. One registry serves both ebXML and UDDI clients.
Presenter(s): Tony Graham, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Ireland

4:45 PM

SOA in the Real World
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: High Level/Technical View
In this session, Ed will review how two leading financial services organizations built and deployed production-ready SOA systems, and significantly reduced development cycles and total cost of ownership.
Presenter(s): Chris Sirna, Senior Consultant, AmberPoint Customer Experience Group, USA

A Tool Kit For Implementing XML Schema Naming and Design Rules
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: High Level/Technical View
A Took Kit being developed at NIST encodes XML schema Naming and Design Rules in a computer-interpretable fashion, enabling automated rule enforcement and improving schema quality.
Presenter(s): Joshua Lubell, Computer Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

XMI and the Many Metamodels of Enterprise Metadata
Track: Metadata and Semantics
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The XML Metadata Interchange standard allows the capture of metadata in all the many richly expressive metadata languages used today. With semantics expressed by mapping to a semantic model, enterprises can automatically manage their metadata.
Presenter(s): Joram Borenstein, Director of Marketing, Unicorn Solutions Inc., USA & Joshua Fox, Chief Software Architect, Unicorn Solutions Inc., Israel

Remixing RSS - past, present and future
Track: Knowledge Management
Audience: High Level/Technical View
RSS Remixing past present and future: how users are remixing the RSS revolution
Presenter(s): Roland Tanglao, Chief Blogging Officer, Bryght, Canada

Introduction to DITA
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
DITA is an up-and-coming standard for technical publishing in XML. In addition to being well-designed for the task, it also includes several interesting general-purpose technologies in its framework.
Presenter(s): Paul Prescod, Group Program Manager, Blast Radius Products, Canada

DataDirect XQuery - Database Independent XQuery
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: Technical View
This session presents DataDirect XQuery 1.0, a database-independent implementation of XQuery and the XQuery API for Java (JSR 225) for the Java platform.
Presenter(s): Jonathan Robie, XML Program Manager, DataDirect Technologies, USA

7:30 PM

.gov xmlCoP
Track: Town Hall Meeting
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The regular monthly meeting of the .gov XML Community of Practice (xmlCoP) will be conducted as a town hall meeting, in which all participants will be welcome. XML naming and design rules and guidelines (NDRG) will be a primary topic of discussion.
Presenter(s): Owen Ambur, Co-Chair, XML Community of Practice (xmlCoP), USA

XML Registry APIs: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?
Track: Town Hall Meeting
Audience: Technical View
Do you use an API -- in the Java(TM) programming language or another -- to access an XML Registry? What do you like or dislike about the hoops you jump through to make the API work? Come along and share your likes and dislikes about current methods of accessing XML Registries.
Presenter(s): Tony Graham, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Ireland

Wednesday, November 16

9:00 AM

Opening Keynote: Plugging into the Pervasive XML Infrastructure
Track: Keynote
Audience: High Level View
Dave Campbell will speak about the logical steps in XML infrastructure; where we are, and where we're heading.
Presenter(s): Soumitra Sengupta, Product Unit Manager, WebData XML Team, Microsoft Corporation, USA

9:45 AM

Opening Keynote: The future of XML Information Management
Track: Keynote
Audience: High Level View
This presentation will discuss how XML is changing the definition of 'Information Management' and the challenges associated with this change. XML provides endless opportunities when it comes to solving complex data issues companies face today from data integration to implementation of Service Oriented Architectures(SOA). Companies that choose to exploit the advantages of XML will undoubtly gain an edge over their competitors but will also be required to solve the challenges around how to best manage and service XML data without compromising data security and integrity.
Presenter(s): Robert Picciano, Vice President of Data Management, IBM Corporation, USA

11:00 AM

Your schema and the industry-standard schema
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level View
You want to use an industry standard schema, but you need to adopt it for your company's particular needs. Schema adaptation has its opportunities and its pitfalls; knowing your options and planning ahead can help you navigate them successfully.
Presenter(s): Bob DuCharme, Consulting Software Engineer, LexisNexis, USA

XML in Mathematical Web Services
Track: End-User Applications
Audience: Technical View
We describe how two XML-based data formats are used in a mathematical service toolkit based on the Maple computer algebra system.
Presenter(s): Stephen Watt, Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Native XML databases in the real world
Track: Storing XML
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Based on a broad survey of native XML database companies, this presentation describes how native XML databases are being used in the real world, including descriptions of why native XML databases succeeded and relational and other technologies failed.
Presenter(s): Ronald Bourret, Researcher, rpbourret.com, USA

System Architecture for XML Offload to a Cell Processor-Based Workstation
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: Technical View
The presentation describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system architecture for XML offload to a Cell processor-based workstation. This architecture includes a high-performance parser based on a novel enhanced finite state technology.
Presenter(s): Stefan Letz, Software Developer, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, Germany

XML Masters Series: Document Publishing
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
See XML Masters Series page.
Presenter(s): Jeff Shick, American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, USA

The power of native XML applications
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level View
In the Internet era, we've experienced dramatic innovations in application architecture from fat, standalone application to thin, Web application. XML has been one of the key components in Web application, as a core data interchange abstraction in middle tier. Justsystems and IBM envision the future computing architecture by extrapolating the role of XML to both directions: native XML application and native XML store. The session covers:

Introduction to native XML application
xfy as a runtime environment for native XML application
xfy as an authoring environment for native XML application
IBM DB2 native XML store for native XML applications
Developing native XML applications with xfy including demo

Presenter(s): Hideki Hiura, COO, Chief Scientist, Justsystems Inc,, Japan & Rav Ahuji, Strategy Manager, IBM

11:45 AM

On Language Creation
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Many custom languages for applications have been created, but have failed to achieve their goals. This paper explores some of the reasons why.
Presenter(s): Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Canada

Computing for the Mathematical Sciences with XML, Web Services, and P2P
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: Technical View
This talk details the use of XML, Web Services, and P2P technologies to build a computational grid for the Mathematical Sciences and discuss the challenges of developing vocabularies for messaging and orchestration.
Presenter(s): Alex Milowski, Lecturer, Center for Document Engineering, UC Berkeley, USA

XQuery By Example: Making O'Reilly Books Sing and Dance
Track: Storing XML
Audience: High Level/Technical View
In this session I'll take some O'Reilly book content (encoded in Docbook XML) and show various ways that the content can be repurposed and made to sing and dance online using XQuery.
Presenter(s): Jason Hunter, Lead Applications Engineer, Mark Logic Corporation, USA

Native XML Scripting with ECMAScript for XML (E4X)
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Reading, writing and maintaining XML code can be tedious, time consuming, and error prone. Learn how E4X simplifies application development by using familiar intuitive programming constructs and operators to read, write, and manipulate XML data.
Presenter(s): Rich Rollman, Vice President - Engineering and Product Development, AgileDelta, Inc., USA & John Schneider, Chief Technology Officer, AgileDelta, Inc., USA

XML Masters Series: Document Publishing (Continued from 11:00am)
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
See XML Masters Series page.
Presenter(s): Jeff Shick, American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, USA

Introduction to the NEW Native XML Support in DB2
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Overview of the NEW IBM DB2 Native XML Support.
Presenter(s): Michael De Santis, DB2 Native XML Senior Program Manager, IBM Corporation, USA

2:00 PM

How schema-validation is different from being married
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
A description of why schema-validity is not a black and white question, and how to exploit the shades of gray.
Presenter(s): C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Technical Staff, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), USA

Securing XML - case studies from the Financial Services Industry
Track: Case Studies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Drawing on practical experience in Vordel's XML security projects, this presentation describes how security is being applied to financial XML transactions.
Presenter(s): Mark O'Neill, CTO, Vordel, Ireland

XML Programming Refactored (The Return Of The Monoids)
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: Technical View
We propose to refactor special-purpose XML centric languages into their essential constituents. Instead of creating specialized languages for querying XML, general purpose languages should be extended with query capabilities based on monoids, allowing pprogrammers to query any form of data, using a broad notion of "collection". Instead of the DOM, we need to create a lightweight, rational, and simple API for manipulating XML that is designed specifically to play well with this general query infrastructure. In particular this implies that the API needs to support creation of XML that is node centric as opposed to document centric, and expression-oriented as opposed to the imperative statement-oriented style of the DOM.
Presenter(s): Erik Meijer, Architect, Microsoft WebData XML, USA

XML Initiatives in Pharma
Track: Vertical Industries
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The pharmaceutical industry is rapidly adopting XML-based standards for several of their key information processing functions. In the US Drug Product Labels are now required to be submitted to the FDA for review in an XML format called Structured Product Label (SPL) language. Similarly, in the EU an emerging standard, Product Information Management (PIM) will address largely the same thing but in a very different way. These two approaches are described and compared as well as the underlying drivers and concepts behind them.
Presenter(s): Dale Waldt, Senior Consultant, aXtive minds, USA

XSL Transform Self-Documentation
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The project defined an XML format for documenting XSL stylesheets used in data conversion at PubMed Central. The authors also created an XSLT-based system to present the documentation in HTML.
Presenter(s): Sandy Tao, NLM Associate Fellow, National Library of Medicine, USA & Jeff Beck, Technical Information Specialist, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, USA

XML Authoring for Those Who Don't Like Markup
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The presentation highlights the benefits of standardizing on XML by enabling the integration of tools for authoring, management and delivery of content. This opens up new opportunities for greater productivity, automation and improved business processes.
Presenter(s): Jon Parsons, Director Product Marketing, XyEnterprise, USA

2:45 PM

New XML Validation Technologies in Action
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: Technical View
This presentation is drawn from a number of real-world XML validation projects, and compares and contrasts the experience 'in the trenches' with the current state of the art in XML validation standards, as discussed in XML working groups.
Presenter(s): Alex Brown, Technical Director, Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd., UK

ACORD Security Profiles: Securing Insurance Web Services
Universal Lessons Learned
Track: Vertical Industries
Audience: Technical View
ACORD is a prominent standards organization for the insurance industry. Its technology standards are widely implemented by insurance IT organizations. Session discusses Web services security techniques as standardized recently by ACORD JAG-Framework WG.
Presenter(s): Rima Patel, Technology Evangelist, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA

Phantom XML
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: Technical View
This presentation shows how various kind of data can be virtually represented as XML and how efficient querying over this data can be achieved.
Presenter(s): Dr. Lionel Villard, Advisory Research Engineer, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center & Kristoffer Rose, Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA

Drafting Legislation in XML
Track: Case Studies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This case study will demonstrate a radically new approach to collaborative authoring of structured documents that has been deployed in the Parliament of Ireland and is being implemented other legislatures including the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
Presenter(s): Lisa Richards, Senion Engagement Manager, Propylon, USA & Clyde Hatter, VP, Legislative and Regulatory Solutions, Propylon, Ireland

Semantic Web Calendaring: RDF Calendar, hCalendar, and GRDDL
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: Technical View
The RDF Calendar vocabulary is the result of a test-driven vocabulary development effort. hCalendar is an emerging microformat standard. See how they fit together with XSLT and GRDDL.
Presenter(s): Dan Connolly, Technical Staff, W3C/MIT, USA

Syntext Serna and New Trends in XML Content Authoring
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
We will introduce Syntext Serna and show how it can cope with modern trends and requirements for XML content authoring, such as multi-source compound documents and topic-oriented architectures like DITA, utilizing Serna XSL-on-the-fly capability.
Presenter(s): Paul Antonov, CEO, Syntext, Inc., USA

4:00 PM

Analysis of XML schema usage
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
We introduce essential concepts of XML schema analysis and apply them to the important problem of understanding XML schema usage in practice.
Presenter(s): Ralf Lammel, Program Manager, Microsoft, USA & Dave Remy, Program Manager, Microsoft, Webdata/XML, USA

Web Service Compositions – From XML Syntax to Service Models
Track: Metadata and Semantics
Audience: Technical View
This session presents a rigorous approach to modelling, verifying and validating the behaviour of web service compositions (BPEL4WS) with the goal of simplifying the task of designing coordinated distributed services and their interaction requirements.
Presenter(s): Howard Foster, Research, Imperial College London, UK

SQL, XQuery, and SPARQL: What's wrong with this picture?
Track: Storing XML
Audience: Technical View
Does the world really need Yet Another Query Language? A new language for querying RDF, named SPARQL, is emerging from the W3C. Some observers say that the W3C's own XQuery is sufficient for querying RDF, at least in its XML incarnations, while others suggest that SQL is a more mature, widely-implemented language for querying tuples. This presentation explores these issues and positions the three languages.
Presenter(s): Jim Melton, Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corp., USA

Large-scale validation of millions of UBL Invoices with XML Schema and Schematro
Track: Deploying XML
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Real life problems, experiences and solutions with syntactical and semantical validation of millions of electronic invoices. Theoretical considerations on the localization of international vocabularies.
Presenter(s): Mikkel Brun, Chief consultant, Danish National IT and Telecom Agency, Denmark; Brian BNI Nielsen, Enterprise Architect, Danish National IT and Telecom Agency, Denmark & Christian Lanng, e-business analyst, Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation , Denmark

XML, REST, and SOAP at Yahoo
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This session will discuss the uses of XML at Yahoo Search Marketing, including REST and SOAP based APIs, and the challenges of large scale, high performance systems.
Presenter(s): Parand Darugar, Director of Architecture, Yahoo Search Marketing, Yahoo Inc., USA

XML Authoring Panel
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This session will feature a panel of XML Authoring Vendors and XML experts. The XML Authoring Vendors will demonstrate traditional XML authoring tools and environments. Alternative methods for authoring XML content will also be demonstrated. Discussions about XML environments and appropropriate authoring methodologies will be be discussed.
Presenter(s): Betty Harvey, President, Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc., USA
Panelists/Experts:
Paul G. Antonov, CEO, Syntext, Inc., USA
Lisa Gillispie, Senior Applications Engineer, PTC - Arbortext, USA
Ted Henry, Sales/Marketing Engineer, Altova, Inc., USA
Kevin Kelly, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA
Jerry S. Silver, Director, Product Management, Blast Radius Inc., Canada
Dale Waldt, Senior Consultant, aXtive minds, USA

4:45 PM

Creating and Maintaining Large Families of Related Schemas
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: High Level/Technical View
How do you create and manage large families of XML schemata that share definitions of simple types and/or complex structures? This presentation discusses the real-life development of a set of a family of >450 inter-related W3C XML Schemas.
Presenter(s): Anthony Coates, Chief Architect, London Market Systems, UK

Towards SOA and Enterprise Integration: Lessons from the Police Service in UK
Track: Government
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This paper presents our approach and lessons learnt to date of setting up and deploying the service oriented architecture for modernising and integrating Police IT systems in the United Kingdom.
Presenter(s): Michael Hu, Enterprise Architect; Enterprise Integration Manager, Police Information Technology Organization, UK

Integrating Messaging and Databases to Implement Service Architectures
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Implementing service architectures using an XML-capable DBMS with asynchronous messaging capabilities can offer the secure, reliable, transactions of the web services approach while presenting a minimal interface much as REST offers.
Presenter(s): Michael Champion, Program Manager, Microsoft, USA

RosettaNet : Adoption Brings New Problems, New Solutions
Track: Vertical Industries
Audience: High Level/Technical View
RosettaNet specifies standardized, XML-based business documents, and their exchange over the Internet. We will focus on XML-based technologies to address the new challenges that arose during 4 years of deployment of RosettaNet based solutions.
Presenter(s): Suresh Damodaran, Senior Software Architect, Sterling Commerce, USA

Opening Up: Sharing Data and Technology as a Growth Strategy
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level View
Amazon.com has thrown open the doors to its data and technology, and issued a challenge to software developers -- surprise us. More than 120,000 software developers are using Amazon Web Services to build their own businesses that cater to Amazon's shopping customers or retailers who sell through Amazon.com. Steve Rabuchin, who heads the Amazon Web Services developer relations group, will talk about the reasons Amazon decided to open up its data and technology, the challenges in doing so, and how the company is helping developers succeed as innovators and entrepreneurs.
Presenter(s): Steve Rabuchin, Developer Relations Director of Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com, USA

XML Authoring Panel (continued from 4:00pm)
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This session will feature a panel of XML Authoring Vendors and XML experts. The XML Authoring Vendors will demonstrate traditional XML authoring tools and environments. Alternative methods for authoring XML content will also be demonstrated. Discussions about XML environments and appropropriate authoring methodologies will be be discussed.
Presenter(s): Betty Harvey, President, Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc., USA
Panelists/Experts:
Paul G. Antonov, CEO, Syntext, Inc., USA
Lisa Gillispie, Senior Applications Engineer, PTC - Arbortext, USA
Ted Henry, Sales/Marketing Engineer, Altova, Inc., USA
Kevin Kelly, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA
Jerry S. Silver, Director, Product Management, Blast Radius Inc., Canada
Dale Waldt, Senior Consultant, aXtive minds, USA

7:30 PM

Artificial Artificial Intelligence -- What it is and what it means for the Web
Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), Amazon's human intelligence marketplace, provides a web services API for computers to integrate "artificial, artificial intelligence" directly into their processing. Hear Amazon.com's Steve Rabuchin describe the inspiration for Mechanical Turk, what Amazon has seen since launching the technology, and what Amazon expects for its future.
Presenter(s): Steve Rabuchin, Developer Relations Director of Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com, USA

OASIS SOA Adoption Blueprints
Track: Town Hall Meeting
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This presentation will address current implementations of the SOA Blueprints, including complete implementations from BEA and Microsoft, built on the Weblogic and .NET platforms respectively, as well as those currently under development at Oracle and Sun.
Presenter(s): Miko Matsumura, VP of Marketing, Infravio, USA

XML Document Formats
Track: Town Hall Meeting
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This town hall debates the merits of different current formats for XML documents and how they can be leveraged to meet the requirements for enabling sustainable, evolvable information and communication technologies.
Presenter(s): C. Len Bullard, II, Senior Technical Consultant, Intergraph Corporation, USA

Thursday, November 17

9:00 AM

XSLT Throughout the Document Lifecycle
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
XSLT can be applied to a range of tasks besides generating final output formats, including the automation and semi-automation of editorial and copy-editing chores, extra-schema validation, data aggregation, filtering, indexing, file management and more.
Presenter(s): Wendell Piez, Consultant, Mulberry Technologies, Inc., United States

Applying XML Technologies: Trusted Information Sharing
Track: Vertical Industries
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The President directed the deployment of a "trusted information network" based on the 9/11 comission report. This paper presents Trusted Information Sharing solution for all verticals based on ISO-REL, PKI & XML DigSig standards.
Presenter(s): Dmitry Lenkov, Oracle, USA

Semantics and Security: Applying RDF and OWL to Defense and Security Challenges
Track: Metadata and Semantics
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This presentation will address the recent interest in semantic web standards and discuss how these standards impact the defense, security and intelligence communities within Federal Government.
Presenter(s): Steve Hamby, Architect, Software AG, USA

Extending the Use of XML in the Enterprise
Track: Deploying XML
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Recent advances in available tools blur the once clear distinction between structured and unstructured data. This talk examines how new tools empower users unaware of mark up to contribute to an XML workflow and a managed content environment.
Presenter(s): Jon Parsons, Director Product Marketing, XyEnterprise, USA

Describing Web Applications
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: Technical View
This session will introduce the Web Application Description Language (WADL) which is designed to provide a machine process-able protocol description format for use with HTTP-based Web applications, especially those using XML.
Presenter(s): Marc Hadley, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA

DITA, Documentum and XML Authoring
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Techniques for integrating DITA-based authoring and component management into a Documentum implementation using XMetaL discovered in a real-world deployment.
Presenter(s): Paul Prescod, Group Program Manager, Blast Radius Products, Canada

9:45 AM

Global large-scale stylesheet deployment case study
Track: Deploying XML
Audience: Technical View
An overview of the principles, implementation techniques and benefits of a stylesheet architecture supporting a global deployment of document transformations for the HTML and PDF presentation of US Intelligence Community IC-MSP XML documents.
Presenter(s): Ken Holman, CTO, Crane Softwrights Ltd., Canada

Bridging Islands of ESB with Web Services
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
ESBs can be viewed as processing islands that are connected using a common Web services infrastructure. In this session, the attendee will examine the roles of ESBs and Web services can play when planning to deploy an SOA.
Presenter(s): Andrew Nash, Chief Technology Officer, Reactivity, Inc., USA

XML in the Wild Blue Yonder: A Survey & Town Hall of USAF XML Implementations
Track: Government
Audience: High Level/Technical View
A survey of USAF XML implementations will be dissected to discuss perceived benefits and concerns. Audience participation using a town hall model will be elicited to discuss the survey results, share practical experiences and weigh in on critical topics.
Presenter(s): Cheryl Connors, Senior Information Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, USA; Mary Ann Malloy, Lead Information Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, USA & Amit Maitra, Principal Information Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, USA

Making the right constraints for usable and accessible user interfaces
Track: End-User Applications
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This session focuses on managing constraints that will enable the user to create an accessible and usable user interface. It outlines how to build a logical page, a basic bottom-up repository management system and a process for compiling pages.
Presenter(s): Gary Cornelius, Junior Technical Consultant, CSW Group Ltd., UK

A proposed markup standard for contract documents
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The OASIS LegalXML eContracts TC recently selected a schema as the basis of its proposed markup standard for narrative contract document. This presentation will explain the objectives of the proposed standard and the architectural approach.
Presenter(s): Peter Meyer, Managing Director, Elkera Pty Limited, Australia

Microsoft Office Open XML formats
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This session will provide a technical description of the new Microsoft Office Open XML formats that will become the default XML based formats of the coming version of Microsoft Office (Office 12). The Microsoft Office XML formats provides a great Open and standard-based XML format for Office Documents that enables new XML document scenarios that were not possible before.
Presenter(s): Brian Jones, Lead Program Manager, Office, Microsoft Corporation, USA

11:00 AM

Unit Testing in XSLT 2.0
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: Technical View
Using unit testing to improve stylesheet quality and documentation
Presenter(s): Norman Walsh, XML Standards Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA

Applying Commercial XML Firewall Technology in Multinational Military Networks
Track: Case Studies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
As web services mature, military organizations are adopting SOA concepts. Securing web service exchanges in multinational, military environments is critical. We discuss our experimentation with commercial firewall technology to address this need.
Presenter(s): Marshall Huss, Associate Technical Staff, The MITRE Corporation, USA

Proliferation of OASIS Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Standard
Track: Government
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The OASIS EM-TC has developed the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)- a simple but powerful XML format for exchanging emergency messages. Use of CAP is increasing, and good progress is being made toward the NIMS vision of interoperability and compatibility.
Presenter(s): Patti Aymond, Senior Scientist, IEM, Inc., USA & Elysa Jones, Engineering Program Manager, Warning Systems, Inc., USA

The Impact of XML on Contract Law and the Volume of Contract Litigation
Track: Other
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Can XML bring order to the chaos of Internet contracting? Clickwrap and browsewrap interfaces are frequently litigated, but EDI contracts are not. Will implementation of Web-services contracting systems give rise to frequent litigation or not?
Presenter(s): Jane Winn, Professor, University of Washington School of Law, USA

Binding the Graphical Web (Component and Data Bindings with XBL, XHTML and SVG)
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: Technical View
The emerging XML based web increasingly relies upon ways of presenting just-in-time content with languages such as SVG and XHTML, yet the power to properly harness them will likely lie in the emergent binding languages such as XBL, sXBL, and XTF.
Presenter(s): Kurt Cagle, Author, Metaphorical Web, USA

XML Goes Mainstream
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
XML goes mainstream, promises and pitfalls.
Presenter(s): Don Vale , Astoria Software, Inc., USA

11:45 AM

Automated mass production of XSLT stylesheets
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: Technical View
Looking for a tool that lets you generate XSLT stylesheets without requiring any knowledge of XSLT? Popular spreadsheet programs that can save data in XML provide 90% of this tool; a spreadsheet template and a few short stylesheets provide the rest.
Presenter(s): Bob DuCharme, consulting software engineer, LexisNexis, USA

Defining Network XML Threat Prevention: Next Generation XML Intrusion Prevention
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This presentation describes the unique security challenges that XML Web Services present to traditional network protection and infrastructure solutions such as Firewalls (FW), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS).
Presenter(s): Steve Orrin, CTO, Sarvega, Inc., USA

Using Scalable Vector Graphics in Document Management
Track: Knowledge Management
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Three xml based tools that use location and SVG to enhance regular, semi-structured text reports. These tools are basically document management through GIS
Presenter(s): Richard Hammond, Knowledge manager, USEPA, USA

Architecture evolution of an application: Center in a Box
Track: Case Studies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This session will present a case study in the evolution of a content management system from a static web publishing model to a Service Oriented Architecture.
Presenter(s): Mano Marks, Researcher, Center for Document Engineering, UC Berkeley, USA; Christine Jones, Researcher, Center for Document Engineering, UC Berkeley, USA & Chitra Madhwacharyula, Researcher, Center for Document Engineering, UC Berkeley, USA

Using XML to Comply with Hazardous Material Requirements
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
As high tech companies scramble to comply with hazardous substance directives, the industry has adopted an efficient way to exchange material content throughout design, manufacturing and logistics processes.
Presenter(s): Chris Benedetto, Senior Director, Industry Development, RosettaNet, USA

Migrating to XML DB2 Native XML with Exegenix conversion technology
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This session previews the native XML capabilities of IBM DB2, the legacy document migration process based on Exegenix technology, and illustrates the difference that appropriately-marked up material can make to applications built on DB2 Native XML.
Presenter(s): Ryan Germann, Product Manager, Exegenix, Canada & Gary Robinson, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Software Solutions, Silicon Valley Lab, IBM Corporation, USA

2:00 PM

SYSTRAN Translation Stylesheets: Machine Translation driven by XSLT
Track: Case Studies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
We present SYSTRAN Translation Stylesheets, a way of using XSLT stylesheet to drive machine translation. The structure of a document is used for disambiguating natural language semantics. Machine translation is integrated in the publishing process.
Presenter(s): Pierre Senellart, PhD student, SYSTRAN S.A / INRIA Futurs, France & Jean Senellart, Director R&D, SYSTRAN, France

Using XML for Platform Security
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: High Level/Technical View
By defining a GSS-API binding for XML security tokens, one can start utilizing such tokens for platform-level authentication.
This way, SAML and other XML security tokens can be used as "first class" security tokens within operating systems.
Presenter(s): Gerald Beuchelt, Web Services Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA

Extending the Reach of Web Services to Mobile Devices
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: Technical View
Mobile computing is taking the world by storm. This session describes how to maximize the reach of your applications by using XML and web services on mobile devices and includes tips, techniques, and code samples to run on the most devices.
Presenter(s): Rich Rollman, Vice President - Engineering and Product Development, AgileDelta, Inc., USA & John Schneider, Chief Technology Officer, AgileDelta, Inc., USA

Developing a Business Case for XML-based Content Management Systems
Track: Publishing
Audience: High Level View
This session will help business managers articulate and quantify the long-term advantages of converting corporate data repositories to XML.
Presenter(s): Brian Buehling, Managing Director, Dakota Systems, USA

"Just" Use XML
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: Technical View
With appologies to Winston Churchill, XML is the worst document format except for all those others that have been tried. This tongue in cheek and over the top presentation will cover a number of areas that are sources for frustration to developers.
Presenter(s): Sam Ruby, STSM, IBM Corporation, USA

Bryght - Hosted Web 2.0 sites for everybody
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level View
Overview of Bryght
Presenter(s): Kristopher Krug, President, Bryght, Canada & Roland Tanglao, Chief Blogging Officer, Bryght, Canada

2:45 PM

A Generalized Grammar for Three-way XML Synchronization
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: Technical View
Synchronization problems, though diverse, can be categorized into distinct classes. This paper proposes a general synchronization grammar which can describe synchronization rulesets for XML.
Presenter(s): Robin La Fontaine, CEO, DeltaXML Ltd., UK & Thomas Nichols, CTO, DeltaXML, UK

SOA Policies and Their Enforcement
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: High Level/Technical View
A closer look at the SOA policy standardization landscape reveals significant gaps in the field of policy enforcement. We will propose new enforcement policy types using novel concepts together with building blocks taken from XACML, WS-Policy and SAML.
Presenter(s): Gideon Kaempfer, CTO, SilverKite, Israel

UBL Update
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
UBL increases interoperability in electronic commerce by standardizing generic business messages. The UBL 1.0 Standard, released in November 2004, includes an XML library of standard data components and a set of basic business schemas (purchase order, invoice, shipping notice, etc.) together with a wealth of supporting materials to aid the implementer. UBL 2.0, due out in 2006, will incorporate recent input from governments and tax authorities to provide a complete XML solution for electronic procurement. This presentation will introduce UBL, explain its relationship to ebXML (ISO 15000), and update potential users on recent adoptions and technical developments.
Presenter(s): Jon Bosak, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA

Extensible Manifesto
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Mediocre XML implementation or failed XML projects are a problem for all of us trying to implement XML and sell the concepts to users, clients, and developers. Other computer science areas have mature models and methodologies to improve the successful implementation of their technologies, including Object Oriented Programming, Databases, Application development, and others. Why not the XML community? This talk is a "call to action" for the XML community to develop more mature processes and approaches to XML implementation. Several common problems are explored and set of 10 "Guiding Principles" are proposed to begin and guide the development of an Effective XML Methodology.
Presenter(s): Dale Waldt, Senior Consultant, aXtive minds, USA & Nick Carr, General Manager, Allette Systems, Australia

2005: The Year Mainstream Networking Embraced XML
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Major networking companies such as Avaya, Nortel, Juniper, and Cisco and chip giant Intel took major steps to position themselves in the new 7 billion market of application intelligent networking enabled by XML. Learn about this new XML networking landscape.
Presenter(s): Michael Leventhal, Senior Director, XML Products, Tarari, Inc., USA

Records, Tags, and Pipelines
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: Technical View
Serving XML is an XML pipeline language and an extendible "inversion of control" Java framework. The idea is to support a seamless flow of records and SAX events, in particular, to support conversion of legacy enterprise data into XML and back again.
Presenter(s): Daniel Parker, Consultant, Economic Technolgy, Inc., Canada

4:00 PM

Using XSL, XForms and UBL together to create complex forms with visual fidelity
Track: End-User Applications
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This session will explain how XSL-FO, XSLT, XForms and UBL can be used together. XSL-FO for page oriented layout with a visual fidelity, XForms for advanced and flexible forms. And UBL to represent the business data.
Presenter(s): Klaas Bals, Chief Technology Officer, Inventive Designers, Belgium, Belgium

DITA Case Study: Encoding the Joseph Smith Papers
Track: Case Studies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Through a detailed case study and live demonstration, shows how Brigham Young University has successfully used DITA to encode the historical journals and other papers of Joseph Smith.
Presenter(s): Eric Severson, Chief Technology Officer, Flatirons Solutions, USA & Anthony Mott, Joseph Smith Papers Project, Brigham Young University / LDS Church, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, USA

Efficient XML
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This 90-minute session will be a panel discussion on the challenges faced by those who need to process XML more efficiently than the current state of the art allows. Advocates of different alternatives, including hardware acceleration, binary XML, and code optimization have been invited to present their views and debate one another.
Panelists:
Michael Champion, Program Manager, Microsoft, United States, USA
John Schneider, Chief Technology Officer, AgileDelta, Inc., USA
David A Lee, Senior Member - Technical Staff, Epocrates Inc., USA
Michael Leventhal, Senior Director, XML Products, Tarari, Inc., USA
Dr. Santiago Pericas-Geertsen, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA
Dr. Eric Perkins, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA
Eric Sedlar, Architect for XML Technology, Oracle Corporation, USA

Simplified Discovery Model: Key to Success
Track: Knowledge Management
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The paper highlights issues with high quality, but complex and highly structured discovery mechanisms and proposes a simpler solution for Web Services discovery built on a minimal number of optional parameters, text indexing, and trusted intermediaries.
Presenter(s): Claire Vishik, Senior Software Architect, Sterling Commerce, USA

Functional XML: An new approach to XML processing
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Existing XML processing models are pipelines, controlled by pipeline descriptions which resemble shell scripts. Functional XML allows XML documents to specify their own processing explicitly, without losing the generality of the pipeline script approach.
Presenter(s): Henry Thompson, Reader, University of Edinburgh, UK

Macromedia Flex - RIAs for Local Government
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
How Macromedia Flex supports a local governments mission of exceeding the expectations of it's citizens with Rich Media Applications.
Presenter(s): Bryan Tidd, Director of Technology, City of Canton, USA

4:45 PM

Enterprise-level Web Form Applications with XForms and XFDL
Track: End-User Applications
Audience: Technical View
Paper presents the first combination of the interoperable cause-and-effect processing models and intent-based user interface layers of XForms with a host language (XFDL) that offers
security, precision presentation, and a document-centric paradigm.
Presenter(s): John Boyer, Senior Product Architect/Research Scientist Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software, IBM Victoria Software Lab, USA

Reaching New Levels of Interoperability and Collaboration with DITA
Track: Deploying XML
Audience: High Level/Technical View
One of the obstacles to XML adoption has been poor interoperability between document types. DITA solves this problem through information typing and specialization, enabling new forms of collaboration and increased interoperability between applications.
Presenter(s): Paul Prescod, Group Program Manager, Blast Radius Products, Canada

Efficient XML (continued from 4:00pm)
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This 90-minute session will be a panel discussion on the challenges faced by those who need to process XML more efficiently than the current state of the art allows. Advocates of different alternatives, including hardware acceleration, binary XML, and code optimization have been invited to present their views and debate one another.
Panelists:
Michael Champion, Program Manager, Microsoft, United States, USA
John Schneider, Chief Technology Officer, AgileDelta, Inc., USA
David A Lee, Senior Member - Technical Staff, Epocrates Inc., USA
Michael Leventhal, Senior Director, XML Products, Tarari, Inc., USA
Dr. Santiago Pericas-Geertsen, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA
Dr. Eric Perkins, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA
Eric Sedlar, Architect for XML Technology, Oracle Corporation, USA

XML Data Binding: Integrating XML and Object-Oriented Technologies
Track: Deploying XML
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This session explores two popular Java-XML binding frameworks and evaluates them against criteria deemed to be of greatest significance to developers in this space. The alternative available from Microsoft .Net will be considered as well.
Presenter(s): Neil Chaudhuri, Software Engineer, LMI Government Consulting, USA

W3C XML Schema; RELAX NG; Schematron; or DTD. How's a User to choose?
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level View
XML schemas specify what tagging is allowed in a set of XML documents. Originally XML had only one way to express these rules; now there are many. What are they? What are the differences among them? When is one more appropriate than another?
Presenter(s): B. Tommie Usdin, President, Mulberry Technologies, Inc., USA

B2B Security Implementation Using Web Services
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: Technical View
Configuring secure Web Services between multiple entities is challenging. SOA Software’s XML VPN enables integration, agility, and security for B2B Web services. The paper will explore how business can implement secure Web service with their partners.
Presenter(s): David Pawloski, Product Director, SOA Software, USA

7:30 PM

Closing Keynote: Everyone's using XML, but does anyone care?
Track: Keynote
Audience: High Level View
XML-based applications like blog syndication and recomposable web sites are changing the way we use the web and the way we live our lives. Why isn't it easy, then to answer the question "does XML matter"?
Presenter(s): David Megginson, Principal, Megginson Technologies Ltd., Canada