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 There were two fairly significant sets of announcements on XML today. I posted news summaries on my Web site (http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgmlnew.html), but the server has apparently been taken the server down, so for those interested, I post the news items on this email channel. When the server is back up, some additional links will be alive: [September 13, 1999] XML Featured in Microsoft Announcements. XML is highlighted in a series of recent announcements from Microsoft Corporation in connection with Windows DNA (Distributed interNet Architecture) 2000 and the BizTalk Framework. The company "announced the availability of a freely downloadable <a href="http://www.biztalk.org/">BizTalk JumpStart Kit</a> to aid developers in the immediate creation of BizTalk-compatible software applications. The Microsoft BizTalk JumpStart Kit makes it easier for developers to use XML schemas and the BizTalk Framework in current development projects and existing applications and to realize the benefits of industry-standard eXtensible Markup Language (XML) for electronic-commerce and application integration within and across organizations. In addition, a library for BizTalk-compatible schemas is now live on the BizTalk.Org Web site, with more than 100 freely available schemas submitted by 30 organizations." See <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1999/Sept99/ JumpStartPR.htm">"Microsoft Releases BizTalk JumpStart Kit for Developers. BizTalk.Org Library Open for Business Today With More Than 100 Schemas JumpStart Kit, Schema Library Allow Developers to Quickly Create BizTalk-Compatible Solutions Today With XML Schema, Tools, Services and Sample Applications."</a> Press releases from several other companies (Ariba, Bentley, Clarus, Concur Technologies, HR-XML Consortium, Intelisys, KeyFile, Litefoot, Motiva DesignGroup, NetFish, PMSC, Prophet 21) are referenced in the <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/xmlNews.html">"XML Industry News"</a> section. XML features strongly in a related Microsoft announcement, <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1999/Sept99/XMLPr.htm"> "Windows DNA 2000 Provides Pervasive XML Support For Next-Generation Web Development Microsoft Deepens Commitment to XML as Industry- Standard Integration Mechanism."</a> - "Microsoft Corp. today expanded its industry-leading commitment to eXtensible Markup Language (XML) with a series of announcements for far-reaching XML support in Windows. Distributed interNet Architecture (Windows DNA) 2000, the next generation of the Microsoft. platform for building distributed Web applications. XML, an industry-standard technology developed by the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), enables heterogeneous interoperability of data, components, business processes and applications over the Internet. The Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system, the cornerstone of Windows DNA 2000, is the first operating system with integrated, end-to-end XML support. Key products of the Windows DNA 2000 solution will offer new features and functionality based on XML, including Microsoft SQL Server, the 'Babylon' Integration Server, Microsoft Commerce Server and Microsoft BizTalk Server. The key enabler for Microsoft's vision of integrated, programmable Web services is XML. Through the exchange of XML messages, services can easily describe their capabilities and allow any other service, application or device on the Internet to easily invoke those capabilities. To help realize that vision, Microsoft today is submitting to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) an Internet draft specification for the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), an XML-based mechanism that bridges different object models over the Internet and provides an open mechanism for Web services to communicate with one another. Highlights: (1) SOAP provides an open, extensible way for applications to communicate using XML-based messages over the Web, regardless of what operating system, object model or language particular applications may use. SOAP facilitates universal communication by defining a simple, extensible message format in standard XML and thereby providing a way to send that XML message over HTTP. (2) Microsoft is tightly integrating XML into the SQL. The next version of SQL Server, code- code-named 'Shiloh,' will be fully XML-enabled and will include a superset of the features available in the technology preview for SQL Server 7.0. (3) Microsoft announces XML Transaction Integrator (XML-TI), a new feature of the forthcoming 'Babylon' integration server that enables customers to easily integrate and commerce-enable their existing enterprise applications via XML. XML-TI allows developers to easily invoke transactions on a host with XML without having to change any existing host code or write any new code. XML-TI consists of a runtime proxy and a component builder that generates an XML document interface for executing legacy CICS and IMS transactions." [September 13, 1999] OASIS Announces Expansion of XML.org as an XML Information Clearinghouse. A <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/xmlOrg19990913.html">press release</a> from <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/">OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards</a>) announced "major enhancements to <a href="http://xml.org/">XML.org</a>, the open, vendor-neutral industry portal for XML. New XML schemas from <a href="http://www.datachannel.com/">DataChannel</a> and the <a href="http://www.hr-xml.org/">HR-XML Consortium</a> have been submitted to XML.org. Other content upgrades include the addition of the XML.org Specifications Catalog (<a href="http://www.xml.org/xmlorg_catalog.htm">www.xml.org/ xmlorg_catalog.htm</a>), a comprehensive list of XML specifications currently under development including links for more information." This catalog is described as "the precursor to the fully functional XML.org Registry and Repository, coming in early 2000, the XML Catalog provides an overview of organizations producing XML specifications." The Web site now publicizes a document describing "XML.org Recommendations, Working Drafts, and Submissions; it provides detailed information on specifications submitted to XML.org. An <i>XML.org Recommendation</i> is an XML specification that was developed for one or more industries in a vendor-neutral manner and has broad industry acceptance. An XML.org Recommendation is suitable for widespread use within the industry or industries for which it was designed and has been given the OASIS Board of Directors stamp of approval. An <i>XML.org Working Draft</i> represents a work-in-progress by an OASIS working group or an industry consortium. The ultimate goal of the group producing the Working Draft must be to seek XML.org Recommendation status. To be accepted as an XML.org Working Draft, the development organization must demonstrate that the specification was developed in a vendor-neutral manner. An <i>XML.org Submission</i> has been given to XML.org for consideration as an XML.org Recommendation, for input to an OASIS XML.org working group, or as an announcement of the availability of a specification for review or application. A Submission can only be forwarded to XML.org by the organization that developed the specification." The XML.org Web site also now incorporates the XML.org Specification Submission Form to encourage and enable organizations to share their XML specifications with the community at large. The form allows one to submit XML DTDs, XML schemas, XSL stylesheets, and descriptive web pages, together with keyword assignments from the <a href="http://www.census.gov/epcd/naics/naicscod.txt">North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)</a> codes and descriptions. "Data Channel's [recent] submission to XML.org is the <a href="portalML.html">Portal Markup Language (PML)</a>, which is designed to support inter-portal communication by providing an XML- based description of portal-related data and metadata. PML in corporates the basics of vocabularies such as Dublin Core, Directory Services Markup and WebDAV and will continue to closely track applicable standards of relevance to this arena." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) 
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