Introduction
December 20, 1999
The Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA was the home of both
XML'99
and the overlapping
Markup Technologies'99,
December 5-9, 1999.
With over 2,200 attendees, conference chair Diane Kennedy (GCA) said XML'99 was the
"largest exposition of XML tools ever assembled".
Several speakers later indicated this was the largest XML conference ever as well.
Conference attendance was up 65% from last year's XML'98 in Chicago.
The conference was presented by GCA,
co-hosted by OASIS, W3C, and XML.com,
and sponsored by eidon, enigma, IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, webMethods,
Sequoia, Reed Technology and Information Services, Object Design, and XML.org.
Tracks listed on the
Grid-at-a-glance include:
- XML Applications
- Core Standards
- eBusiness
- Publishing with XML
- Technical
- Newcomer
- XML Vocabularies
- Content/Data Management
- Web Graphics
- XML Management
There were a number of half-day, full-day, and two-day
tutorials,
such as XML Schema, XSLT/XPath, DOM, SVG, Topic Maps, SGML, DTDs, XML and
favorite languages (Java, perl, Python), etc.
As in past conference reports, I can only discuss those sessions that I myself attended.
However, considering that the
conference proceedings
are password protected (and, as of this writing, many presentations have yet to be posted),
you'll be getting quite a lot of information that isn't otherwise available.
Another collection of articles about XML'99 appears on XML.com.
For those who like to plan ahead, check out
XTech 2000
(February 27 - March 2, 2000) to be held at the San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California and
XML Europe 2000
(June 12-16, 2000) which will be held at the
majestic Palais Des Congres De Paris in Paris, France.
What Happened at XML'99
What Happened at XML'99
Keynote: W3C Standards Update
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