XML World Conference Overview

The XML World Conference was held at the picturesque Chateau Laurier in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from September 13-16, 1999. The conference, organized by Interdoc, drew about 350 people from 60 countries. The first day was devoted to tutorials, while the remaining three days consisted of general sessions in the morning, followed by three or four tracks (Technology, Management, Application, and e-Commerce) in the afternoon. There is also an At-a-Glance schedule that lists all presentation titles. The exposition portion of the show ran two days and included about 15 vendors such as IBM, Corel, Omnimark, Microstar, and Bluestone.

Danny Boulanger, the President of InterDoc Corporation, stated for a press release that "XML World has been designed to give a forum for the many streams that are combining to inform about new business solutions such as the rapid emergence of e-Commerce. This event will unite international attendees and technology leaders from the XML business, technology and standards communities."

Conference topics included:

• Impact of XML on future business practices
• Current XML Technologies
• The Family of XML Standards: XSL, XLink, XPointer
• Metadata Standards
• Information and Content Exchange (ICE) Standard
• XML and Java
• Content Management
• Learning Technologies
• Multi-Tier Web Application Development
• System Design and Documentation
• Supply Chain Integration
• e-Commerce
• Relationship of XML to SGML
• Knowledge Management
• XML formatting and linking
• The Use of XML for Corporate Portals
• Business Intelligence
• Enterprise Integration
• Customer Service Environments

As of this writing, the presentations are not freely available online. However, proceedings can be purchased from Interdoc for $275 (USD).

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