The next meeting of the XML Users Group will be held on Wednesday,
February 16, 2005 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
Agenda:
Terrence Brady, LexisNexis, Topic Maps
Mark Baker and Shigeki Hagiwara, Justsystem
Justsystem is a $120M company based in Tokushima, Japan that
develops XML technologies. At the XML 2004 conference in Washington
DC, we announced a new line of XML management technologies aimed at
addressing the need for scalable usage of customized and compound
vocabularies in the authoring and consumption of documents. The
product line is called xfy Technology.
Below are a few links to media coverage for xfy:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1728553,00.asp
http://www.sdtimes.com/news/117/story17.htm
If you would like more information or to download a trial
version of the product, please visit: http://www.xfytec.com.
The presentation will discuss will discuss an approach to
visually creating, editing and synchronizing, nested compound
March 2005
Michael Hahn, Vasont Software
Eating Your Own Dog Food
Repeated classes and presentations make an excellent case for
reuse and repurposing, one of those things SGML and XML are
supposed to be good for. This presentation discusses the system
I use to prepare and present classes and talks, using the very
technologies I'm teaching and discussing.
The collection of DTD modules and stylesheets will be available
online following the presentation.
April 2005
Jonathan Bruce, DataDirect, XQuery
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://ecc05.eccnet.com/mailman/listinfo/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 SGML/XML Users Grp
URL: http://www.eccnet.com | http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/
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