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The next meeting of the XML Users Group will be held on Wednesday,
March 16, 2005 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:

Michael Hahn, Vasont Software

Eating Your Own Dog Food

Repeated classes and presentations make an excellent case for
reuse and repurposing, one of those things SGML and XML are
supposed to be good for. This presentation discusses the system
I use to prepare and present classes and talks, using the very
technologies I'm teaching and discussing.

The collection of DTD modules and stylesheets will be available
online following the presentation.

Dave Plogeri, Logixml LGX Reporting

XML Inside and Out

The LGX Reporting development platform makes it easy to build
web-based reporting applications. Learn how the server engine
makes interesting use of internal XML structures for great
performance and flexibility. And though databases are the
main reporting target, LGX Reporting works with XML data
too.

April 2005

Jonathan Bruce, DataDirect, XQuery

Hope of XQuery

Join Jonathan Bruce, XQuery Evangelist at DataDirect Technologies, as
he presents The Promise of XQuery, an introduction to XQuery and the
XQuery API for Java (XQJ). As XQuery moves closer to becoming a W3C
recommendation, developers are eagerly looking to take advantage of its ability to dramatically simplify and accelerate data integration and
query XML. Previously JDBC Specification Lead and Architect at Sun
Microsystems, Jonathan will focus on the exciting opportunities that
a formal XML query language presents for Java and for JDBC/SQL
developers who want to evolve their applications to leverage the
growing set of XML data sources.

Tommie Usdin, Mulberry Technologies

Document Model Selection: Off-the-Shelf, Altered-to-Fit, or Bespoke?

May 2005

Dave Patterson



We hope to see you there.

Washington Area XML 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 XML 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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