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The next meeting of the XML Users Group will be held on Wednesday, 
August 21, 2002 at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) at 2000 
Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20009-1277. The meeting starts 
at 7:00 p.m.  and usually last approximately 2 hours.  If attending 
the meeting by Metro, get off the Dupont Circle stop and walk
north to Florida Avenue...turn right. 

There is no cost associated with attending but if you are planning on
attending this meeting, please let us know so that we can give a list to
AGU management.  You can register at:

	http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/meeting-register.html

Agenda:  August 21, 2002

NOTE:  Copies of Ken Sall's book "XML Family of
       Specifications: A Practical Guide" will be given as
       a door prize during the August meeting.

Eugene Kuznetzov, CTO, DataPower Technology 
        XML Network Services: Architectural Considerations 

        XML is quickly becoming the "lingua franca" for electronic 
	communications. Unfortunately, network infrastructure is blind 
	to XML traffic, leading to performance bottlenecks and security holes. 

	Organizations need to address the XML performance problem directly 
	at the network level, with technologies designed from the ground up 
	to deal with XML traffic. A new generation of XML-aware network 
	equipment is emerging. These solutions make it possible to manage, 
	process, secure and accelerate XML data streams.  

Ken Sall http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kensall/  
 
	Big DOM and Little SAX 

	The Document Object Model (DOM) provides "a platform- and 
	language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to 
	dynamically access and update the content, structure and style 
	of documents." This talk focuses on the DOM as a generic 
	API for XML applications. After a brief re-cap of the SAX 
	approach, pros and cons of the DOM will be emphasized. A 
	high-level look at DOM's Node interface will be presented, as 
	well as the W3C's DOM Level 1, 2, and 3 efforts. Examples 
	will illustrate cross-browser and cross-language capabilities such as: 

	- JavaScript to add nodes to an XHTML document
	- JavaScript to change style of an HTML page
	- JavaScript to dynamically update an SVG document
	- Microsoft VBscript DOM traversal of XML nodes
	- DOM Inspector in Mozilla
	- DOM traversal, filtering, node changing in Java
	- JDOM alternative (time-permitting)


	Bio: Kenneth B. Sall is an XML consultant. He has sixteen 
	years experience in information technology, including 
	eight years of Web development. Sall was a key contributor to 
	the Astronomical Instrument Markup Language for NASA/Goddard 
	Space Flight Center. In addition, he maintains the XML 
	section of Web Developers Virtual Library (WDVL.Internet.com) 
	and has written many articles and spoken extensively on XML. 
	Sall provides XML overview and XML training courses, customized 
	to audience needs. He is the author of "XML Family of 
	Specifications: A Practical Guide", recently published by 
	Addison-Wesley. 



September, 2002

NOTE:  Copies of Sam Hunting's book "XML Topic Maps: Creating and 
       Using Topic Maps for the Web" will be given as
       a door prize during the September meeting.

Sam Hunting, eTopicality
       Delivering Topic Map Information Using Web Services: A 
       Practical Application using NAICS and SIC codes
Lazysoft, Creators of Sentences. 

October, 2002

Ken Holman, XSL-FO Tutorial

November, 2002

Kevin Price - ADO and .NET
J.P. Morgenthal 

Currently we need speakers for both the technical and vendor
presentation portion of future meetings.  If you would like
to give a presentation at a future meeting, please send e-mail 
or call Betty Harvey (410) 787-9200. Share your knowledge and experience
with others.

Hope to see you there.  

Washington Area SGML Users Group Web Site:
http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug
Electronic copies of papers supplied from speakers are
available on-line.

To subscribe to the Washington Area SGML Users Group mailing
list, go to http://ecc05.eccnet.com/mailman/listinfo/xmlusers.

DIRECTIONS:

From Connecticut Avenue north of AGU, make a left onto
T Street (1 block before Florida Avenue). Drive one block,
the entrance to Atlantic Garage North should be on your
right.

>From Connecticut Avenue  of AGU, make your first right
after Florida Avenue onto T Street. Drive one block.  the
entrance to Atlantic Garage North should be on your right.


>From I-66

  - Continue east on I-66 to Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge. This
    places you on Constitution Avenue.
  - Take a left on 18th Street, NW and head north. Continue north to
    Connecticut Avenue.
  - Turn left (North) on Connecticut Avenue to Florida Avenue.
  - Right on Florida Avenue. AGU is 1/2 block on the right at the
    corner of 20th & Florida Avenue.


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Betty Harvey                         | Phone: 410-787-9200 FAX: 9830 
Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. |        
harvey@eccnet.com                    | Washington,DC SGML/XML Users Grp
URL:  http://www.eccnet.com          | http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/
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