March Meeting of the Washington, DC Area XML Users Group

[Betty Harvey <harvey@eccnet.com>]

The next meeting of the XML Users Group will be held on Wednesday, 
March 21, 2006 at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) at 2000 
Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20009-1277. The meeting starts 
at 7:00 p.m.  and usually last approximately 2 hours.  If attending 
the meeting by Metro, get off the Dupont Circle stop and walk
north to Florida Avenue...turn right.

There is no cost associated with attending but if you are planning on
attending this meeting, please let us know so that we can give a list to
AGU management.  You can register at:

 	http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/meeting-register.html


March 21, 2007

Carlo Innocenti (Minollo), DataDirect

 	Using XQuery to process and integrate XML, relational, web services,
 	and legacy data

 	This session provides an overview of the XQuery language, how XQuery
 	can be leveraged in complex data integration scenarios and how XQuery
 	can easily fit into various architectures including today's SOAs.
 	Live demos will provide hands-on experience about the power and
 	flexibility of the XQuery language.

 	At the end of the session, you will have answers to these and more
 	questions:


 	Can I use XQuery to query large XML documents?
 	Can I use XQuery to query non-XML documents?
 	Why would I use XQuery instead of Java?
 	How do I get started with XQuery?
 	How can I modularize my XQuery?
 	How is XQuery different from XSLT?


April 2007

Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems

 	UBL 2.0

 	UBL increases interoperability in electronic commerce by standardizing
 	generic business messages. The UBL 1.0 Standard, released in November
 	2004, includes an XML library of standard data components and a set
 	of basic business schemas (purchase order, invoice, shipping notice,
 	etc.) together with a wealth of supporting materials to aid the
 	implementer. UBL 2.0, approved as an OASIS Standard in November
 	2006, incorporates the experience of a number of government
 	agencies in 23 new document types that fill out the basic
 	order-to-invoice process of UBL 1.0 to provide a complete
 	XML solution for electronic procurement. This presentation
 	will introduce UBL, explain its relationship to ebXML (ISO 15000),
 	and explore the implications of a standard electronic business
 	language.

 	About the presenter

 	Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer Jon Bosak organized and
 	led the working group that created XML, subsequently serving for
 	two years as chair of the XML Coordination Group of the World
 	Wide Web Consortium. He is a long-time member of OASIS, the
 	Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
 	Standards, and he chaired the committee that developed the
 	OASIS process for the definition of industry-specific XML
 	markup standards. He has also served on the Advisory Board
 	of the Electronic Business XML initiative (ebXML), a joint
 	project of OASIS and the United Nations body for Trade
 	Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT); on the
 	Solution Provider Board of RosettaNet, the leading XML-based
 	supply-chain organization for the electronics industry; and
 	on the Board of Governors of the Electronics Industry Data
 	Exchange Association (EIDX), a member section of CompTIA.
 	He currently chairs the OASIS Universal Business Language
 	Technical Committee. Articles by Jon Bosak can be found
 	on his web page: http://www.ibiblio.org/bosak/

May 2007

Jessica Glace, LMI

June 2007

David RR Webber, Gnossis

Currently we need speakers for both the technical and vendor
presentation portion of future meetings.  If you would like
to give a presentation at a future meeting, please send e-mail 
or call Betty Harvey (410) 787-9200. Share your knowledge and experience
with others.

Hope to see you there.

Washington Area XML Users Group Web Site:
http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug
Electronic copies of papers supplied from speakers are
available on-line.

To subscribe to the Washington Area XML Users Group mailing
list, go to http://www.eccnet.com/mailman/listinfo/dc-xmlusers.

DIRECTIONS:

From Connecticut Avenue north of AGU, make a left onto
T Street (1 block before Florida Avenue). Drive one block,
the entrance to Atlantic Garage North should be on your
right.

>From Connecticut Avenue  of AGU, make your first right
after Florida Avenue onto T Street. Drive one block.  the
entrance to Atlantic Garage North should be on your right.


>From I-66

   - Continue east on I-66 to Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge. This
     places you on Constitution Avenue.
   - Take a left on 18th Street, NW and head north. Continue north to
     Connecticut Avenue.
   - Turn left (North) on Connecticut Avenue to Florida Avenue.
   - Right on Florida Avenue. AGU is 1/2 block on the right at the
     corner of 20th & Florida Avenue.


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Betty Harvey                         | Phone: 410-787-9200 FAX: 9830 
Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. | 
harvey@eccnet.com                    | Washington,DC SGML/XML Users Grp
URL:  http://www.eccnet.com          | http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/
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