Overview
There are so many XML-related technologies around these days, all vying for your attention!
How is anybody meant to keep up, let alone have time to figure out what's just hype and what is really going to be useful?
Solution - come and listen to experts from the XML world delivering their verdicts on what's hot and what's not in XML.
This one-day seminar will present a number of specifications and technologies that you've heard of and will give you the information to decide whether they're fads that will never take off, or hidden gems that deserve more attention.
Spend a day hearing the leading names in XML and related technologies debating the cutting edge technologies and trends that are hyped, over-hyped, or under-hyped. One of the highlights of the week, this session is XML with attitude - thought-provoking, controversial, and guaranteed to provoke debate. It always proves to be richly entertaining and an informative experience for everyone involved!
Who should Attend
The day is aimed at anyone who wants to learn about the cutting edge technologies that could potentially change the way we work in the future. Everyone will benefit: those new to these technologies will get an overview of what is exciting in the world of XML and related technologies, while the experts will have the chance to discuss these same technologies loudly and vociferously!
Faculty
This course is prepared and delivered by a world-renowned faculty, including:
- Lauren Wood (Chair)
- Michael Sperberg-McQueen
- Rich Salz
Curriculum for 2008 - yet to be announced
Curriculum from 2007
Web 2.0Speaker: Lauren Wood (Chair)
The hype around Web 2.0 is even bigger than the hype around XML when it first garnered public attention. An alternative name for it is the read-write web; contributions from the many rather than dictates from the few is the chief attribute of Web 2.0, though there are many more concepts that are included in this catchphrase. Many business models claim to be Web 2.0-compliant, spurred on by the success of Flickr and YouTube, and this is helping to fuel the second big internet entrepreneurship wave. This session will take a look at some of the underlying ideas and technologies of Web 2.0 and equip attendees with the knowledge of the terminology they need to hold their own in discussions on the subject.
Microformats: what are they, and why should we use them?
Speaker: Dan Connolly
Copying yet another soccer schedule or flight itinerary into a computer's calendar by hand, one field at a time, will eventually drive anyone insane. The Web made exchanging documents easier, but there's been little progress for data.
There is hope - with the emerging hCard and hCalendar microformats, data can flow seamlessly from web pages into my calendar and contact tools.
The trick is to encode the data in HTML, using the class attribute to say what it is. But wait... why encode this in HTML? Why not use an XML vocabulary for contacts and calendar information? Or Semantic Web technologies like RDF and the Web Ontology Language (OWL)?
In fact, all of these have been tried. In this session, we'll explore what works and why, looking at both the social and the technical factors that will determine what we use in the future and how we use it.
Progress in ProcessingSpeaker: Jeni Tennison
Once upon a time the standard, and practically only, way to get information out of an XML document and into your application was to write SAX event handlers. Now, programmers and less technical users are faced with a whole host of APIs, data models and tools to process XML data. This session will look at how the mechanisms we use to manipulate XML have diverged and evolved, including the latest developments such as language integrated queries with XLinq and pipelining with XProc.
Trends and Transients Panel Discussion
The final session of the day gives you a chance to hear the chairs of the other summer school tracks give their opinions on this year's most-discussed technologies. This will be followed by a panel discussion.
