Kimbro
Staken and Lars Martin announced the creation of XML:DB,
an initiative for the "development of standardized technologies for managing the data in XML Databases".
The
initiative appears to have been kicked off by the announcement on the
xml-server list of Lexus, a
project by the Infozone Group to define an XML update language immediately
followed by an answer
from dbXML.
The founders of the XML:DB
initiative, Jonathan Borden (The Openhealth Care Group), Lars Martin (SMB
GmbH) and Kimbro Staken (The dbXML Group, L.L.C.), list reasons for founding
their group that are similar to those found in the Lexus announcement:
Currently
all XML database vendors are forced to develop their own proprietary mechanism
for managing the data stored by their product. We are concerned that, without
some initiative to bring these efforts together, this will lead to considerable
confusion and duplication among users and, that as a result, the opportunities
that XML databases offer to the market will not be maximized.
Since these
first steps, the goals have
been extended to include the development of open source implementation and the
evangelism of XML database technologies:
1.
Development of standardized technologies for managing data in XML Databases.
2.Contribution
of reference implementations of those technologies under an Open Source
License.
3.Evangelism
of XML database products and technologies to raise visibility in the
marketplace.
Interested parties
are invited to join the effort:
Membership
in XML:DB is free and all interested parties are invited and encouraged to
participate.
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