Schedule overview for 2007-12-03

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Exhibit reception in Gloucester.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Exhibit reception in Gloucester.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Does XML have a future on the web? XML 2007 opens with a panel of experts and audience discussion on where XML is (or isn't) going online.