DITA has literally taken the world by storm, but implementing it can be tricky. Based on real-life experience, this presentation provides a wealth of practical advice for those considering DITA. Read more.

This presentation discusses some less obvious consequences, and explores various solutions which could be adopted in order to expedite popularity and increase utility of microformats. Read more.

Three speakers involved in the creation of the first XML appliances will talk about the evolution, uses, and some issues raised by XML-oriented hardware. Read more.

In this introduction to Office Open XML (OOXML), Mark Logic’s Kelly Stirman will share common use cases and major hurdles of using OOXML, and will discuss workarounds to address those challenges. Read more.

Microformats have exploited standards such as vCard and vCalendar. TripBlox takes microformats into the travel space with an Atom based format for publishing trip ideas. Read more.

A moderated panel of vendor representatives will discuss current features and future plans for their XML authoring tools as well as taking questions from attendees. Read more.

Navigating XML in Ajax can be daunting and perilous. This session explains a pipeline approach to consuming XML. XSLT transforms, data formats, and Ajax application trade-offs will be discussed. Read more.

This article sketches the uses of validation in an architecture that operates over XML data entered through human-computer interaction. Read more.

Serious publishers would never store editorial content in XHTML 1.1, but XHTML 2 adds structural richness and metadata storage capabilities that make it a good candidate for content storage. Read more.

This session examines XML technologies and strategies for building lighter-weight AJAX applications, including JSON/XML converters, E4X, and ATOM messaging systems Read more.

XML – love it, hate it. We'll take a look at Web Services in Healthcare, and the problems with XML, Schema's, SOAP, HTTP, SSL encountered in the Netherlands and elsewhere – and their solutions. Read more.

PRISM 2.0, the first major PRISM revision since 2001, addresses requirements for deliverin gcontent in online multimedia environments. Learn how PRISM 2.0 enables multi-platform publishing. Read more.

Discusses XProc: An XML Pipeline Language, a specification developed at the W3C for describing operations to be performed on XML documents. With luck, a Recommendation by December. Read more.

Mashups are light and quick compositions of information. It is a platform for consuming data from a variety of sources including Web Services, HTML pages, feeds and processing/ combining them. Read more.

Premises and design decisions on the XML Schema for the 39 volume, 123 old, still unfinished dictionary - addressing in particular design of a Schema supporting the editors in the editing process. Read more.

This talk outlines our team’s findings on the properties of XML documents and XPath expressions “in the wild”. Read more.

Successful service repositories soon become unmanageably large. Data mining techniques, applied directly to the service metadata, allow automated analysis and organization of these repositories. Read more.

XForms offers an order of magnitude simplification to the design and development of business applications. Read more.

The declarative power of XForms empowers business units to maintain their own applications without IT involvement, using graphical specification capture. Read more.

Use XForms to create a custom editor for an XML vocabulary. The key to this magic is a set of XML configuration files. Read more.

XForms speaks XML natively, and so does the open source eXist XML database. In this talk, we show how they form a particularly attractive combination. Read more.

Combine XForms, XHTML, and RDFa to build and test widgets, gadgets, and applications. Read more.

Leveraging the MVC design of XForms, Web 2.0 applications can be designed as reusable components loosely coupled using XAC and SCXML. Read more.

XForms: will it be a dream, or a dud? In this keynote address to the XForms community, Elliotte Rusty Harold offers his vision and advice on the future of XForms. Read more.

An overview of XSL-FO 1.1, used to express how to format XML documents into a paginated (printable) result such as paper copy or PDF files. Read more.

Many newer websites are offering REST as an xml web service interface. Learn how Ruby on Rails allows developers to program their entire app in a RESTful nature, and dramatically reduce dev time. Read more.

A failing in large data models is that the data items lose their connection to their original business contexts. Semantic technologies can restore the connection betwen the model and the business. Read more.

Sponsored event by Microsoft. Read more.

Use the power of publishing applications like Adobe InDesign CS3 to provide high-end layout of imported XML database content, while authoring and validating with lower-cost XML editing tools. Read more.

We share approaches & lessons-learned from efforts to leverage microformats & mashups to expose common information (e.g., events, locations, points-of-contact) to support 21st century warfighters. Read more.

Can XML really solve today's enterprise problems? How do we manage complex XML metadata, maintain performance, persist complex hierarchical structures, or deal with non-XML format such as SWIFT. Read more.

Lisa Bos will present current trends in CMS for publishers including native XML management. Read more.

This paper introduces the Open Data Foundation, a non-profit promoting a standard infrastructure for the exchange of data and metadata for statistics and research. Read more.

What happened when a bank allowed Web Services Security experts to try to breach the protection of its Web Services? Read more.

Sponsored session by Microsoft. Read more.

Initially a database solution, the process of streamlining gradually revealed a content delivery system based on on a succession of transformations on an XML source, this is how it evolved. Read more.

OASIS Open Document Format specifies how to represent office document such as text documents, presentations and spreadsheets in XML. We show how it can be made web accessible and group editable. Read more.

This presentation proposes an architectural approach that delivers highly scalable, robust AJAX Enterprise Applications (AEA) for data intensive environments. Read more.

DITA has compelling applicability to any kind of content that needs the general benefit of XML representation and can be managed on an element level. Read more.

This session examines the model for the Internet as a platform of interconnected devices, delves into changes in the model, & examines the technology & business pattern better known as the Web 2.0. Read more.

We report on efforts to build a XSLT processor capable of handling Gigabyte sized documents with equivalent performance characteristics to the best known existing implementation models. Read more.

Sponsored session by Microsoft. Read more.

This session describes how to develop dynamic content delivery applications using XML databases, XQuery and XForms. The session highlights how using open standards simplifies application development. Read more.

A developer-oriented introduction to the Atom Publishing Protocol and the Apache Abdera project. Read more.

I'll show how to use a specialized URIResolver to allow standard XSLT and XQuery engines to process data that is in formats other than XML, such as EDI, CSV, or xBase. Examples and code are included. Read more.

This panel will discuss different methods for modeling metadata inside XML content in publishing applications. Read more.

WebPath is an experimental XPath-2-based query language designed to treat the web as effectively a single XML document. The talk discusses design considerations as well as an implementation in Python. Read more.

Practical discussion of enterprise data modeling and XML schema systems for large-scale publishing. Covers many issues for data architects, some of which are not widely discussed in the industry. Read more.

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A hands-on look at how DITA can bring discipline and flexibility to the management of learning content. Read more.

Applications built on 'skimming' principles are very loosely-coupled, and can run on just about any server-side architecture. Read more.

Use XML to unify and standardize information between Design, Production and Support such as process industry S88/BatchML-compliant Recipe Editor, engineering and other dynamic compound documents. Read more.

The importance of XML technology to the legislative process in several states will be explored, including its role in bill drafting and publishing processes as well as support by elected officials. Read more.

Miguel de Icaza will talk about efforts to create an compatible Linux browser plugin compatible Microsoft's new Silverlight web platform. Read more.

Based on AtomPub and OpenSearch, the Integrated Documentation Environment for Aircraft Support (IDEAS) framework enables federated searches of technical content and updates via web feeds. Read more.

Creating XML transformations in two tasks, Mapping and Coding, maximizes the skills of various team members, reduces development time and cost, and increases correctness of the finished code. Read more.

LINQ to XML is a modernized in-memory XML programming API designed to enhance developer productivity, especially when developing Silverlight applications for the web. Read more.

Sidewinder turns every web-page into a full-featured desktop application, making programming as easy as coding XHTML, as well as supporting the writing of complete applications in JavaScript. Read more.

This training is for people familiar with XSLT - either XSLT 1.0 or XSLT 2.0 - who want to improve the reliability and accuracy of their stylesheets. Read more.

This tutorial introduces participants to the design and specification of XML vocabularies. XML Schema 1.0 is used, but the emphasis is on the intellectual and social problems of language design. Read more.

A quick start introduction to the DITA specification with a focus on how to create and process DITA-based content as well as key DITA concepts. Read more.

This session reviews the many constructs of XSL-FO and why they are included in the specification. Read more.

How the structure captured in authoring and managing content in XML can be utilized at the time of delivery. Read more.

An introduction to the language with practical examples about how to query, transform and aggregate XML documents using XQuery Read more.

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How do I use XQuery to access my relational data and join it with other XML data? How do I update relational databases from XQuery? Read more.

XSLT 2.0 introduces new keywords, syntax, and elements, This training for those who know XSLT 1.0 highlights what's new and what's changed between XSLT 1.0 and XSLT 2.0. Read more.

Schematron (a language for testing and reporting on structure and content of XML documents) is small, powerful, easy to learn, and an excellent complement to XSD, DTD, or RELAX NG for XML validation. Read more.

This workshop explores database design and information retrieval in data-centric XML applications. Read more.

This presentation is a case study featuring the Financial Accounting Foundation, Financial Accounting Standards Board. The project is codification (US GAAP). Read more.

How can I consume Web services from XQuery and how do I expose Data Services based on XQuery through Web services? Read more.

How can XQuery help me deal with XML industry standards, for example ACORD for insurance? Read more.