XMLhack OASIS newsDeveloper news from the XML communityNew year brings surge in OASIS activity- (Found July 2, 2008 ) OASIS have issued calls for participation in several technical committees, including forming a TC to develop a localization interchange language.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1506 XML-DEV Hacked- (Found July 2, 2008 ) XML-DEV subscribers noticing a distinct lack of traffic this week, may have assumed that everyone had just gone back to work. In actual fact the mailing list had been hacked.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1472 Official RELAX NG specification, tutorial arrive- (Found July 2, 2008 ) RELAX NG is an XML schema language developed by the RELAX NG technical committee at OASIS and designed to be an easy-to-learn and easy-to-implement alternative to the W3C's XML schema language. After several months of development and refinement, the RELAX NG TC has released an official committee specification for the language, along with a tutorial and DTD compatibility document.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1471 XSLT as query language- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Evan Lenz of XYZFind has created TransQuery, a small set of XSLT conventions and processing model constraints that enable the use of XSLT as a query language over multiple XML documents.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1467 New OASIS TC for web services component model- (Found July 2, 2008 ) HP, IBM and Macromedia, among others, have formed a technical committee within OASIS to pursue the development of a component model for interactive web services.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1433 E-business consortia meet for interoperability summit- (Found July 2, 2008 ) OASIS, OMG, HR-XML, UNCEFACT and XBRL.org will host an interoperability summit in Florida, just before the XML 2001 conference, aimed at identifying standards crossover.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1432 Bosak spearheads Universal Business Language- (Found July 2, 2008 ) A call for participation has been issued for a new OASIS Technical Comittee that will develop the Universal Business Language (UBL), under the chairmanship of Jon Bosak.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1378 RELAXing Progress- (Found July 2, 2008 ) James Clark has announced the publication of RELAX NG 0.9 and an accompanying tutorial. The editors have also published the initial working draft of a DTD Compatibility Annotations document.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1336 |