Happy 2006! I hope everyone had a great holiday and will have a
good new year.
The next meeting of the XML Users Group will be held on Wednesday,
January 18, 2006 at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) at 2000
Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20009-1277. The meeting starts
at 7:00 p.m. and usually last approximately 2 hours. If attending
the meeting by Metro, get off the Dupont Circle stop and walk
north to Florida Avenue...turn right.
There is no cost associated with attending but if you are planning on
attending this meeting, please let us know so that we can give a list to
AGU management. You can register at:
http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/meeting-register.html
January 18, 2006
Wendell Piez and Debbie Lapeyre, Mulberry Technologies
Introduction to XPath 2.0
An introduction to the concepts and syntax of XPath 2.0 (the
new XML query and tree-traversal language - now in Working Draft -
from W3C) and the differences between XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0.
The data model has changed; there are powereful new functions
and operators; and XPath 2.0 is closer to a programming language
than ever.
NOTE: This will be a 2 hour tutorial. Plan on attending to
learn more about XPath 2.0
February 2006
Josh Lubell, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
A Tool Kit for Implementing XML Schema Naming and Design Rules
A tool kit being developed at the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) encodes XML schema Naming and Design Rules
in a computer-interpretable fashion, enabling automated rule
enforcement and improving schema quality.
Terry Brady
A Use-Case Driven Approach to the Development of Reusable Stylesheet
Modules
Developing a library of XSLT stylesheets that can operate on documents
of different types is a challenging. While XSLT supports modularization,
it takes some experience to learn how to properly modularize XSLT.
Collaborative XSLT development poses many challenges: misunderstanding
of XSLT import precedence rules can lead a team to abandon logical modularization
approaches; XSLT code requirements are difficult to articulate without writing
the stylesheets themselves; and XSLT code can be overwhelming to review without good
modularization.
This presentation will describe the experiences of a team of experienced and
junior engineers that created a collection of re-usable stylesheets. The
presentation will review the Stylesheet Unit Test Driver that the team
created and the development methodology that the team followed.
Currently we need speakers for both the technical and vendor
presentation portion of future meetings. If you would like
to give a presentation at a future meeting, please send e-mail
or call Betty Harvey (410) 787-9200. Share your knowledge and experience
with others.
Hope to see you there.
Washington Area XML Users Group Web Site:
http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug
Electronic copies of papers supplied from speakers are
available on-line.
To subscribe to the Washington Area XML Users Group mailing
list, go to http://www.eccnet.com/mailman/listinfo/dc-xmlusers.
DIRECTIONS:
From Connecticut Avenue north of AGU, make a left onto
T Street (1 block before Florida Avenue). Drive one block,
the entrance to Atlantic Garage North should be on your
right.
From Connecticut Avenue of AGU, make your first right after Florida Avenue onto T Street. Drive one block. the
entrance to Atlantic Garage North should be on your right.
From I-66
- Continue east on I-66 to Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge. This
places you on Constitution Avenue.
- Take a left on 18th Street, NW and head north. Continue north to
Connecticut Avenue.
- Turn left (North) on Connecticut Avenue to Florida Avenue.
- Right on Florida Avenue. AGU is 1/2 block on the right at the
corner of 20th & Florida Avenue.
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Betty Harvey | Phone: 410-787-9200 FAX: 9830
Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. |
ha****@eccnet.com | Washington,DC XML Users Grp
URL: http://www.eccnet.com | http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/
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