<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from XML JOURNAL</title><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from XML JOURNAL</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>XML JOURNAL</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 17:29:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from XML JOURNAL</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/2/xmlj-mag-logo-145.gif</url><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>EDI to XML: A Practical Approach</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/563225.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/563225.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/563225_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[While EDI transactions account for most worldwide commercial activity, XML-based alternatives are beginning to gain traction. According to Forrester Research, stateful XML, stateless XML, and even flat file exchanges are all projected to grow at a faster rate than EDI over the next few years. The firm predicts stateful XML transactions will be required for a growing number of B2B process-oriented transactions and are projected to exceed the growth of EDI transactions over the next five years.]]></description></item><item><title>Benefitfocus Selects DataDirect XML Converters</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/552381.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/552381.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/552381_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[DataDirect announced Benefitfocus is using DataDirect XML Converters to automatically transform thousands of X12 compliant EDI documents from insurance carriers to XML for accelerated processing. DataDirect XML Converters provide bi-directional, highly-scalable software that streams EDI, flat files or other legacy data formats as XML and back, making data accessible to any application in the enterprise. The high-performance Java and .NET components support past and current X12 and HL7 EDI standards and provide a highly scalable streaming architecture to exceed the most demanding enterprise system requirements.]]></description></item><item><title>ISO Becomes OOXML&apos;s Steward</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/540594.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/540594.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/540594_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Against the backdrop of a noisy protest march through downtown Oslo Wednesday by 60 Norwegian software experts - including Opera CTO Haakon Wium Lie - objecting to Norway's Yes vote for Open XML standardization by the International Standards Organization, ISO took control of the controversial Microsoft file format, setting up three committees to handle it from here on out.]]></description></item><item><title>JustSystems Named &quot;Cool Vendor&quot; by Gartner</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/544808.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/544808.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/544808_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[JustSystems was included in the list of 'Cool Vendors' in the 'Cool Vendors in Content Management, 2008' report by Gartner. The report was authored by Toby Bell, Mark R. Gilbert, and Rita E. Knox. According to Gartner, 'Cool vendors in content management are establishing new directions for established technologies which can benefit professionals engaged in valuable content-focused business processes. Making their lives simpler, and the content itself smarter, yields extremely rewarding results.']]></description></item><item><title>JustSystems Champions &quot;The Document as the Application&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/544807.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/544807.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/544807_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[JustSystems announced the 'document as the application,' the company's vision for the future of information creation, collaboration, and delivery. JustSystems' 'document-as-application' approach blurs the line between traditional documents, which provide rich context, persistence and portability; and business applications, which provide live data and an interactive user experience. The result is a dynamic document that comes to life with diverse and distributed information sources that are always up to date.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Pushes OOXML Over the Top</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/535313.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/535313.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/535313_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has gotten enough votes to make its Open Office XML file format (OOXML), the default file format in Office 2007, an ISO standard, theoretically saving Office from being run out of town by a lot of ODF-smitten government agencies. There have been, as everyone must know by now, myriad accusations of chicanery, undo pressure, committee-stacking, ballot box-stuffing and other voting irregularities - on both sides of the aisle actually - Microsoft points an accusing finger at IBM, an ODF supporter, as Sun did during the aborted Java standards process for poisoning wells - and right after the results were in CNET reported that the allegations roused the European Commission - which, let's face it, has what can only be described as a hard on for Microsoft - to investigate.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft&apos;s OOXML Is Now Officially On a Par with HTML, PDF and ODF</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/532929.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/532929.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/532929_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[As anticipated here at SYS-CON.com and elsewhere already yesterday, and despite world XML expert Tim Bray's observation - after the OOXML BRM - that the process is 'irretrievably broken,' Microsoft's OOXML has been announced today as the latest ISO standard - after more than 14 months of intensive review and controversy.]]></description></item><item><title>LogiXML Adds ETL Data Integration to Web-Based Business Intelligence Product Line</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/530355.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/530355.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/530355_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[LogiXML announced the availability of the new Logi ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) product designed to support integration of enterprise data into a consistent format to support a variety of corporate applications. The new Logi ETL product is a Web-based data integration application that can transfer data from diverse sources to multiple destinations directly, be invoked by predefined processes, including scheduling, or be triggered by application actions. Although Logi ETL is part of Logi Unified BI Platform, the product can be used independently as well.]]></description></item><item><title>Layer 7 Technologies and Novell Team to Provide Identity Driven Security for XML Web Services</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/526545.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/526545.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/526545_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Layer 7 Technologies announced a go-to-market partnership with Novell to secure programmatic Web services, leveraging Novell eDirectory and Novell Access Manager identity solutions. Under the terms of the agreement Layer 7 will become a preferred partner joining Novell's identity and security management partner ecosystem to help address Web services security. End-users will benefit from an integrated best of breed approach to Web and Web services security.]]></description></item><item><title>Siemens PLM Software to Makeover Manufacturing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/524117.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/524117.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/524117_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Documents are a key part of manufacturing processes, from requirements and specifications, to bills, parts lists, marketing materials and technical maintenance manuals. However, documents typically provide static views of a dynamic business. In turn, documents can introduce design, development and maintenance delays, mistakes, rework costs and compliance issues that can rapidly erode profit margins, customer loyalty and time-to-market advantages.]]></description></item><item><title>TopQuadrant Software Imports Email MetaData into Enterprise-Class Semantic Applications</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/523816.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/523816.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/523816_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[TopQuadrant announced that TopBraid Composer and TopBraid Live now include a Semantic email importer. This technology enables organizations to develop Semantic applications that combine email metadata with other data sources, which can be searched and analyzed. This allows organizations to answer business questions using a combination of data from email, relational databases, spreadsheets, XML, UML, RSS/Atom and Semantic data imported from GRDDL, RDFa, RDF triple stores, SPARQL endpoints.]]></description></item><item><title>World XML Expert Tim Bray on OOXML BRM: &quot;The Process is Irretrievably Broken&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/509779.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/509779.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/509779_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) in Geneva ended in tears. Sun's Tim Bray immediately recorded his thoughts on the meeting, and his verdict was withering: despite some good that perhaps came of it ('With a very few exceptions, everyone really tried hard to work together and make the document better,' he writes), he described the BRM process as 'complete, utter, unadulterated bullshit.']]></description></item><item><title>New Strategy to Understand Technology Gets Spotlight Via TheMetaTechnology.com</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/504984.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/504984.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/504984_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[An online course about meta-technology, a new type of strategy to understand technology, has recently been launched online via the website, TheMetaTechnology.com. According to founder, Luca D'Angelo, 'Meta-technology is created by taking a piece of technology and modifying its standard input-process-output flow. By using meta-technology, we can experience a different type of interaction so when we use the original technology, we gain a deeper understanding of it. It's like going to the moon, experiencing a different gravity force, and then coming back to the world so we can have a deeper understanding of the world's gravity.']]></description></item><item><title>German CIA Paid Millions for Data Stolen from a Bank in a Neighboring Country</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/504511.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/504511.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/504511_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Deutsche Post CEO Klaus Zumwinkel, the head of Europe's largest postal service and a powerful member of the establishment, resigned last Friday - reportedly not willingly but under pressure from the government - after the German authorities started investigating him for tax evasion, a melodrama complete with a raid on his office in Bonn and a televised search of his home in a Cologne suburb. An arrest warrant was even issued and Zumwinkel was detained for questioning late last week then released after posting bond.]]></description></item><item><title>Index XML Documents with VTD-XML</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/453082.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/453082.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/453082_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Traditionally DOM or SAX-based enterprise applications have to repeat CPU-intensive XML parsing when accessing the same documents multiple times. VTD-XML 2.0 introduces a simple general-purpose XML index called VTD+XML (http://vtd-xml.sourceforge.net/persistence.html) that eliminates the need for repetitive parsing of those applications.]]></description></item><item><title>EC Pokes Around OOXML</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/503456.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/503456.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/503456_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has started poking around the rough-and-tumble of the standardization process looking for evidence that Microsoft broke anti-competitive antitrust laws trying to get its Office Open XML format (OOXML) memorialized by ISO, according to a story last Friday in the Wall Street Journal.]]></description></item><item><title>DataDirect Technologies&apos; XML Converters Streamline Data Integration for the Healthcare Industry</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/499537.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/499537.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/499537_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[DataDirect announced its DataDirect XML Converters are being used by leading healthcare organizations to comply with the X12 electronic data interchange (EDI) and Health Level Seven (HL7) clinical and administrative data standards in an effort to accelerate application development efforts, enhance operational efficiency, reduce overall costs and improve patient service levels.]]></description></item><item><title>ExtraLabs Software Unveils RSS Feed Editor 4.76</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/498951.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/498951.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/498951_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ExtraLabs Software announced the release of Feed Editor 4.76. Designed for the Windows OS, this application enables you to create, edit and publish RSS feeds and podcasts surprisingly fast and easy. Compared to other RSS editors in its category, Feed Editor combines an unprecedented number of features, including a support for various RSS formats, a podcasting support, a WYSIWYG HTML editor, an XML editor, an RSS Feed preview, an FTP upload and publishing, automatic date management, and an ability to convert CSV or HTML to RSS and back and others.]]></description></item><item><title>Autonomy ZANTAZ Announces Compliance with the Newly Released EDRM XML Standard for Electronic Discovery</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/497530.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/497530.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/497530_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ZANTAZ, an Autonomy company, announced that ZANTAZ Introspect is compliant with EDRM's Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard, EDRM XML 1.0. Autonomy ZANTAZ Introspect is one of the first e-discovery products to achieve compliance with the newly released XML standard, which was designed to improve interoperability and the transfer of electronically stored information (ESI) between applications involved in the discovery process.]]></description></item><item><title>Nuance Launches PDF Converter Professional 5 Software Family, Accelerates &quot;Better PDF for Business&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/497087.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/497087.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/497087_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Nuance Communications unveiled PDF Converter Professional 5, the best selling PDF desktop alternative to Adobe Acrobat for government, corporate, and academic organizations.  With the new release Nuance continues to expand on the features, quality and innovation needed to deliver 'Better PDF for Business' at a time when companies are looking to save money on IT solutions.]]></description></item><item><title>Eracent is Major Contributor to ISO/IEC 19770-2 IT Standard Development</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/495876.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/495876.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/495876_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Eracent has been given a mission to create the XML schema definition for ISO/IEC 19770-2 standard draft. The ISO/IEC 19770-2 standard will define the asset tags for software Configuration items. The asset tags are files in xml format. The definition of the xml tags and values are the core of the standard, but it also needs the formal xml schema definition to avoid any confusion and to be able to validate the tags.]]></description></item><item><title>JSON vs XML - A Jason vs Freddie Sequel</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/203935.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/203935.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/203935_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[It's not the latest sequel to the 'Jason versus Freddie' movie, it's one of the decisions you need to make if you're rolling out a Web 2.0 product. Make the wrong choice, and your project and reputation can suffer. Make the right choice, and you can be a hero. There aren't any easy answers, but I can take you on a tour of the technology and the decisions involved so you can make a better-informed choice. During our tour I promise you won?t be attacked by a man in a hockey mask, so sit back and enjoy the ride.]]></description></item><item><title>A7Soft JExamXML: A Free Java-Based XML Comparison Tool Has Been Released</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/484745.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/484745.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/484745_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[A7Soft has made a significant step in development XML related Java application. Releasing JExamXML, A7Soft transferred XML comparison technologies from the Windows application ExamXML to the industry standard Java platform, allowing mullions of XML developers to embed the XML differencing technologies into their application.]]></description></item><item><title>Response to Yahoo! Architect Douglas Crockford&apos;s Comments on XML</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/483800.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/483800.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/483800_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Is JSON better than XForms? That's an apples and oranges argument. I am willing to predict that XForms + XQuery will become a powerful enterprise model for rich form content, because the enterprise is considerably more XML-centric than the consumer stack is. I'm willing to predict that JSON feeds to most mashups will likely end up being a mix of XML (primarily via feeds) and JSON for quite some time, though I'm inclined to suspect that AtomPub will likely tilt the balance of power towards XML in the long run.]]></description></item><item><title>Does XML Have a Future on the Web?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/481198.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/481198.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/481198_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[A more interesting question is 'Is XML on the web trending up or trending down?' Clearly, it is trending down. For data transfer applications, XML is losing ground to JSON because JSON is simply a better data transfer format. And XHTML has failed to displace HTML in the marketplace. The benefit of clientside validation has proven to not be a benefit. I think you can argue, and in fact I did argue, that because of W3C's adventures with XML, the web itself may not have a future. The browser has a lot of problems, the worst of which are the security problems that came with Netscape Navigator 2. That was 12 years ago, and there has been no progress since that time in fixing the fundamental problems. There have been lots of patches on top of patches. Nothing more.]]></description></item><item><title>Can RSS &amp; XML Help Us Build the Data Web?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/361296.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/361296.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/361296_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Now let's consider the most-seen AJAX powered mashup: modifications of map sites, adding real estate pictures and locations to a map, for example. This sort of thing would be made a lot easier and accessible if the real estate agents published an RSS-like feed of properties, along with their GPS coordinates and prices. Even in this limited scope the possibilities are endless, a burger chain could publish the locations of its restaurants, or news bulletins could come attached with markers. Planes, trains, and - well, possibly - automobiles could be tracked and tacked onto maps. Want to see where the roadworks are on your journey? Just import the official highway's feed of roadworks into any mapping site or software of your choosing.]]></description></item><item><title>Tail-f Systems and IP Infusion Partner to Deliver Carrier-Grade Solutions for Network Equipment Providers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/493409.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/493409.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/493409_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Tail-f Systems and IP Infusion announced a strategic partnership to integrate their products and collaborate on sales and marketing.  Together the companies will enable network equipment providers to benefit from leading routing protocols managed by standards-based XML configuration management software.]]></description></item><item><title>DataDirect Launches New Release of XML Converters and XQuery Engine</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/474128.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/474128.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/474128_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[DataDirect Technologies announced the latest release of its DataDirect XML Converters and DataDirect XQuery products. With version 3.1 of its XML products, it offers even greater scalability and performance; broadens its support of popular databases and industry standards; and offers a highly scalable streaming architecture to exceed the most demanding data integration and enterprise system requirements.]]></description></item><item><title>Windows IT Pro Magazine Presents Altova XMLSpy with the &quot;Best of Connections 2007&quot; Award</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/475437.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/475437.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/475437_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Altova announced that Altova XMLSpy was named as winner of the 'Best of Connections 2007' in the Office category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro. In the award?s first year, the judges reviewed over 60 IT products and services submitted for the contest and chose 18 finalists that were evaluated at Microsoft Connections in Las Vegas. Interviews were conducted, and winners were announced on the exhibit floor of the Connections conference.]]></description></item><item><title>AltovaXML and XMLSpy Win Numerous Awards in 2007</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/471544.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/471544.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/471544_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[AltovaXML, a free XML standards processor, was named 'Best XML Parser' and 'Best XSLT Processor' in the 2007 SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards. XMLSpy, an XML editor and development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML-related technologies, won four awards in 2007.]]></description></item><item><title>JustSystems Touts XML Move from Back Office to Corner Office</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/467550.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/467550.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/467550_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[JustSystems, Inc. will promote XML?s evolving role at the XML 2007 Conference & Exposition, being held in Boston at the Marriott Copley Place on Dec. 3 ? 5, 2007. ?XML has grown up, with companies accelerating their XML adoption to support SOA and winding up with an abundance of highly-accessible information,? explained Jake Sorofman, vice president of marketing for JustSystems. ?All of a sudden, XML isn?t just about interoperability between disparate applications. It?s about making business-critical information available to executives, knowledge workers, and others who need it.?]]></description></item><item><title>BEA Systems Named Gold Sponsor of SOA World Conference &amp; Expo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/458988.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/458988.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/458988_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[BEA Systems is a leader in enterprise infrastructure software. BEA Enterprise 360 is the industry's most advanced approach for building a Liquid Enterprise. This comprehensive offering combines our product technologies, people, best practices, and broad network of partners to deliver maximum business value to  BEA customers. BEA Enterprise 360 gives the customers the ability to harness the convergence of: 1) Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) 2) Business Process Management (BPM) 3) Enterprise Social Computing.]]></description></item><item><title>Collaborative Licenses Web Services &amp; XML Technology</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/458949.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/458949.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/458949_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Collaborative Software, the company start-up by ex-Open Source Development Labs CEO Stuart Cohen, has licensed the Shared Assessment Programs created by BITS, the consortium of US financial houses intending to use it to create an open source program that makes vendor data more readily available through a Web Services front-end app for collecting and editing shared assessment submissions as well as an XML schema for validating them as XML documents. It's a compliance thing.]]></description></item><item><title>His Lawyer Prays Reiser Won&apos;t Testify at His Murder Trial</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/458700.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/458700.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/458700_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Hans Reiser, the Linux file system creator on trial in California for the alleged murder of his missing wife, is proving to be a handful for his own lawyer William DuBois. Having reportedly memorized the 9,000 pages of discovery, Reiser has been second-guessing everything the lawyer says in court and interrupting to the point DuBois has complained to the trial judge, according to Wired, which is doing gavel-to-gavel coverage. The book heard DuBois tell a bailiff if Reiser was kicked out of court things would be a lot better.]]></description></item><item><title>20/20 Interview Delays Murder Trial</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/451338.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/451338.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/451338_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[It seems that ABC's 20/20 is going to do a piece on Linux file system programmer Hans Reiser and the murder case against him on Friday, November 2 and that that's one of the reasons the opening statements in his trial have been pushed back from Monday October 29 to Monday November 5. Concern about prejudicial information. Other reasons appear to be the number of pre-trial motions and the difficulty the defense has had in getting the reportedly 400-page file on the custody case over Reiser's two little kids out of Juvenile Court. His lawyer finally got it after the murder trial judge intervened.]]></description></item><item><title>Free Graphical XSD Editor &amp; XML Editor: Liquid XML Studio</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/447818.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/447818.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/447818_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Liquid XML Studio is a free graphical XSD Editor & XML Editor that can also be used to edit WSDL and other XML based standards. It has a simple intuitive interface that makes developing for the complex W3C XML Schema (XSD) standard quick and easy. A validator is provided that strictly adheres to the W3C standard ensuring that the XML Schemas you produce are valid and correct.]]></description></item><item><title>Biometrics Goes Linux</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/440314.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/440314.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/440314_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[DigitalPersona, the biometrics authentication folk, has moved its One Touch SDK to Linux so developers can create fingerprint-enabled Linux applications. It figures it would be good for embedded Linux platforms and standalone systems in retail, finance, healthcare and time and attendance applications. The widgetry is initially designated for 2.6 versions of SUSE and Slackware and developers can use C and C++ environments to integrate it into code that will run on PCs, servers, POS terminal or embedded devices.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft-Novell Interoperability Lab Opens</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/430783.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/430783.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/430783_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft and Novell have opened that interoperability lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts promised in their controversial November accord. The location is right under the nose of the disapproving Free Software Foundation. The idea is to build and support technologies that let Windows and SUSE Linux, unlike other strains of Linux, work well together starting with virtualization, then moving on to standards-based systems management, identity federation and document formats. The 2,500-square-foot lab reportedly houses 80 servers of varying architectures and a SAN.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Fails to Win ISO Approval for the Office Open XML (OOXML) Standard</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/427726.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/427726.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/427726_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Last week Microsoft failed to win ISO approval for the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard in the 2nd round of the ISO standardization process. While the Wall Street Journal published a critical article about this, this is by no means the end of the road, nor is it even a major setback - the ISO process commonly requires multiple rounds, and the 3rd round (expected for early 2008) will very likely see Office Open XML becoming an ISO standard.]]></description></item><item><title>Should Every Application Be a Platform?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/427011.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/427011.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/427011_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The idea then came up again with the push to integrated software in the early 80s. Mitch Kapor and Lotus were selling the idea of an all-in-one package, Symphony, which was a word processor, database, spreadsheet, graphics and communication program, with a macro language tying it all together. Bill Gates proposed a different approach, let each app stand alone and share its data with other apps through a common scripting language. This idea was so good that I started a company in 1988, UserLand Software, to create such a scripting language for the Mac, which then had a rich user interface and a totally underdeveloped scripting interface. Today, the Macintosh has a rich tradition of interapplication communication, made possible by this simple idea that every app should have an API.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Looks for the Big Guns in OOXML In-Fighting</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/419573.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/419573.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/419573_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote 'yes' on ISO standardizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format, the one in competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) pushed by IBM and Sun.]]></description></item><item><title>Breaking News: ISO Fails To Ratify Open XML</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/423860.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/423860.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/423860_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Office Open XML (has not been ratified as a standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). An official ISO announcement is expected shortly. It was a close call: 74% of ISO countries voted to support Open XML as a standard. But for a standard to be ratified, you need 75%. France voted against, Hungary abstained.]]></description></item><item><title>W3C Publishes Web Services Policy 1.5</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/423861.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/423861.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/423861_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Years of customer experience with commercial Web services applications have made clear the need for a modular approach for describing required and optional extensions used by a service. Without this capability, it can be costly to rewrite an entire service whenever application needs change. According to an announcement today by WC3, Web Services Policy 1.5 can reduce this cost. 'It connects the core Web services standards -- SOAP 1.2, WSDL 2.0, and XML Schema -- to a growing set of extensions that reflect industry needs and experience.']]></description></item><item><title>Stylus Studio 2007 XML Enterprise Suite - Two-for-One</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/421847.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/421847.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/421847_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Until Friday, August 31, 2007, you can buy a single-user license of Stylus Studio 2007 XML Enterprise Suite, and Stylus Studio will e-mail you a complimentary second license for your friends or co-workers.]]></description></item><item><title>Using XMLSocket for Server Push in Flex</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/421394.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/421394.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/421394_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Adobe's LifeCycle Data Services ES offers developers powerful capabilities.  Some of this software's capabilities, specifically server push, can be developed with relative ease using a utility class that has been around in the Flash APIs for a great while, and without having to pay licensing fees for LifeCycle Data Services ES.  The utility class spotlighted in this article is flash.net.XMLSocket, and it provides all the client-side plumbing required for implementing server push.]]></description></item><item><title>Enterprise Faxing as Easy as XML</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/414282.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/414282.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/414282_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[With an XML-capable service, developers don't have to make alterations to enterprise applications, nor do they need to create a completely separate application to map from one system to the other. The faxes are transmitted to and received from the Internet fax service as XML documents, greatly simplifying handling on both ends.]]></description></item><item><title>OOXML&apos;s Fast Track to ISO Standardization a Minefield</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/405263.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/405263.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/405263_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[V1, the subcommittee advising the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) on formats, has failed by a tantalizing two votes to endorse Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format, already standardized by ECMA, as fit for ISO standardardization even though Microsoft reportedly packed V1 with its friends in anticipation of the vote last week. Despite the fact that V1 had only seven voting members a few months ago and 26 last Friday, the 13th, as it happens, no two-thirds consensus was reached and now INCITS' executive board is going to have to sort through the stack of V1's technical comments and come up with an American position through a 30-day letter ballot. There could also be a reconsideration ballot after that.]]></description></item><item><title>JSON - An Attempt to Bring XSS Back</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/352114.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/352114.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/352114_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[JSON lets one take advantage of the 'On Demand Javascript/Script Tag hack' described earlier. This technique allows new HTML script tags to be dynamically generated and the 'script' to be downloaded from any server.  When the downloaded script is made up of data formatted in JSON, the script tag is effectively being used to download new data across domains outside of the same-origin policy.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Spits in GPL Creator Richard Stallman&apos;s Eye</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/386632.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/386632.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/386632_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Goodness, didn't Microsoft just spit in Richard Stallman's eye? The GPL creator's attempts to stop Microsoft from cutting any more of those patent-protection deals like the one it cut with Novell don't quite seem to be working.  The last draft of the Microsoft-limiting GPLv3 was barely in circulation when Microsoft announced first thing Monday morning that it had pocketed a five-year deal with the little 80-man Debian commercializer Xandros, the New York outfit that bought Corel's Linux distribution, the code that used to be underneath Linspire (nee Lindows), a company more associated with the desktop than the server.]]></description></item><item><title>Head First HTML with CSS &amp; XHTML</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://xml.sys-con.com/read/357339.htm</guid><link>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/357339.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://xml.sys-con.com/read/357339_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I'm sure that there are times when you visit your favorite bookstore to look at new books on your favorite .NET topics and you cringe at the weighty tomes sitting on the shelves. You open these books and page upon page of continuous print swims before your eyes, but you figure it's important so you plop down your hard-earned money, take the book home, begin to read it in you rocker recliner and fall asleep.]]></description></item></channel></rss>