Fun With Numbers
December 11, 2000
Fun With Numbers
This article presents some of the highlights of the
XML 2000 conference held in Washington, DC from Dec. 3 to 8,
2000. Especially of interest was the focus on Schema, Topic Maps,
Web Services, SOAP, UDDI, and XSLT. This report includes coverage
of talks by Tim Berners-Lee (W3C), David Turner (Microsoft), Mark
Colan (IBM), Jon Bosak (Sun), Eve Maler (Sun), Matt Fuchs (Commerce
One), and Roger Costello (Mitre), among others. As usual, our
coverage contains numerous links to details that augment what was
actually presented at the conference. (All you need is infinite
time ;-)
According to various estimates, the conference drew 1000-1200
people, with a majority of content/documentation folks, compared
to eBusiness men and women. The first two days were mainly
tutorials and special interest sessions. I attended an all-day
Scalable Vector
Graphics tutorial by Jon Ferraiolo
(Adobe) and an all-day XML Schema hands-on
tutorial by Roger Costello
(Mitre). Both tutorials were extremely worthwhile; follow the
links to the instructors' names for similar material.
The remaining four days consisted of plenaries and 30- to
45-minute presentations in nine tracks:
I attended presentations from most of the tracks, so this article
will cover a wide variety of topics.
Other interesting numbers from the conference:
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over 90 vendors participated in the exhibition
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W3C now has over 487 members,
roughly double its membership from two years ago
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over 130 companies have joined the UDDI bandwagon
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ebXML has 1800 participants from 60 countries
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with 70 companies (and 90 participants), the XML Protocol Working Group
is W3C's largest WG to date (surpassing the also large XML Query WG)
Conference sessions as PowerPoint slides and audio can be
purchases as individual or team licenses from ConferenceNetwork.com,
(978) 250-4444.
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