http://xmlhack.com/ Developer news from the XML community en-us Edd Dumbill (mailto:webmaster@xmlhack.com) Edd Dumbill (mailto:editor@xmlhack.com) Copyright 1999-2001, xmlhack team. http://xmlhack.com/images/mynetscape88.gif http://xmlhack.com News, opinions, tips and issues concerning XML development http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1506 OASIS have issued calls for participation in several technical committees, including forming a TC to develop a localization interchange language. OASIS http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1472 XML-DEV subscribers noticing a distinct lack of traffic this week, may have assumed that everyone had just gone back to work. In actual fact the mailing list had been hacked. Community OASIS http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1471 RELAX NG is an XML schema language developed by the RELAX NG technical committee at OASIS and designed to be an easy-to-learn and easy-to-implement alternative to the W3C's XML schema language. After several months of development and refinement, the RELAX NG TC has released an official committee specification for the language, along with a tutorial and DTD compatibility document. Schemas OASIS http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1467 Evan Lenz of XYZFind has created TransQuery, a small set of XSLT conventions and processing model constraints that enable the use of XSLT as a query language over multiple XML documents. XSLT OASIS http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1433 HP, IBM and Macromedia, among others, have formed a technical committee within OASIS to pursue the development of a component model for interactive web services. Protocols OASIS http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1432 OASIS, OMG, HR-XML, UN/CEFACT and XBRL.org will host an interoperability summit in Florida, just before the XML 2001 conference, aimed at identifying standards crossover. E-Commerce OASIS http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1378 A call for participation has been issued for a new OASIS Technical Comittee that will develop the Universal Business Language (UBL), under the chairmanship of Jon Bosak. E-Commerce OASIS http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1336 James Clark has announced the publication of RELAX NG 0.9 and an accompanying tutorial. The editors have also published the initial working draft of a DTD Compatibility Annotations document. Schemas OASIS