xmlhack: Editors' Newswire for 17 April, 2003

A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 17 April, 2003.

Asia Pacific OASIS Open Standards 2003: Call for Participation
from Uche Ogbuji at 23:57, 17 Apr

The conference will be held from October 1-3, 2003 at the Grace Hotel, Sydney, and will focus on standards for e-business such as ebXML, Web services, the Liberty Alliance and many others. Organizers are seeking submissions for conference sessions and tutorials.

YAPP XSLT, a parser engine written in XSLT
from Uche Ogbuji at 19:03, 17 Apr

YAPP XSLT is a lexical scanner and recursive descent parser generator implemented in pure XSLT (excepting the common nodeset() extension function).

Using OWL to Avoid Syntactic Rigor Mortis
from Uche Ogbuji at 18:35, 17 Apr

A white paper by Roger L. Costello about how to use OWL Web Ontology Language to provide semantic services for XML vocabularies. Includes a sample ontology of cameras. See also "Why use OWL?", by Adam Pease

GLUE 4.0, a web services platform
from Uche Ogbuji at 18:17, 17 Apr

GLUE is a Java framework for creating and deploying applications with web services, JSPs and servlets. It can be used as a lightweight application server, providing a simpler alternative to EJB, or as a plug-in to any 3rd party application server or servlet engine for adding web services capabilities. New features include JNDI and Eclipse IDE integration, DIME support, and updated WS-Security and WS-Routing support.

RDF Gateway 1.0, an RDF application, database and Web server
from Uche Ogbuji at 16:08, 17 Apr

RDF Gateway provides a platform for semantic Web. It offers a server-side scripting environment called RDF Server Pages (RSP) and similar to ASP and JSP. It also includes an RDF query language, RDFQL, based on ECMAScript. It also provides data services for integration with other sources. It is available for Windows only. A trial download is available.