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[David Webber]

CAMeditor Version 1.8 News Release
This release consolidates 4
months of development work on both CAMeditor and CAMV for the OASIS CAM
(Content Assembly Mechanism), and is the first for the 2010 “Alyeska” series.



Highlights

Using these latest  tools any standards group can now publish their
information exchange definitions as a sets of concise blueprints coupled with a
canonical XML dictionary of the exchange components. This then allows
developers to rapidly create tailored XSD schema and XML transaction instances along
with their documentation directly by using the 
tools.  This contrasts with previous
practice of publishing complex W3C Schemas that is difficult, time consuming
and costly for developers to make interoperable, maintain and support.



The 
canonical XML dictionary format is compatible with Microsoft Excel™ and
utilizes the Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS) definitions thus
making it accessible to business analysts to review the available data
definitions for blueprint construction and extension. Blueprints also support
the NIEM.gov approach to interoperable information exchange development.  The schema generator supports OASIS and NIEM
standard layouts.

 

The project vision is to provide
the leading open source toolset for implementing standards based information
exchanges with XML. Simplifying and speeding the development process and
enhancing the quality of your resulting schema for superior XML exchanges.  To date the project has had over seventeen
thousand file downloads from the Sourceforge.net resource site (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/camprocessor).



Technical Details

For the CAMV validation engine
this provides the latest V1.1.3 production release. Upgrades to the integration
with the CAMeditor have been completed including support for the latest warning
and information message handling validations reporting.



For the CAMeditor significant
changes include improvements for the Blueprint Expander, the canonical XML
dictionary details, the XSD generation, XML example and the Renamer tools.  



Added is the ability to generate
XSD schema using folder structures by namespace extension and type (subset,
extension, exchange, and external) along with customized header and footer
documentation text.  This powerful
feature has built-in mappings for NIEM 2.0, NIEM 2.1, LEXS and OASIS
schemas.  Custom mappings can be locally
configured to match developer tooling needs.



Other significant changes include
support for spell checking of XML component names (elements and attributes), better
handling of ERwin XSD models, and enhanced renaming and refactoring tools to
align SQL models to NIEM naming and design rules.  Various NIEM related enhancements have been
made in support of better IEPD generation (http://www.niem.gov).  CAMeditor is built using Eclipse, Java, and
Saxon xslt and is cross-platform deployable.



More information on how the  methodology can accelerate your information exchange
development through the application of XML component dictionaries and
blueprints can be found at the OASIS web site: 

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=36146