Yet Another Query Language? Am RDF query language, SPARQL, is emerging. Is XQuery sufficient for querying RDF in its XML incarnation? Is SQL adequate to query RDF in tuple form? We explore these issues and position the 3 languages.

This session surveys the strengths and weaknesses of the XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 languages when it comes to writing real-life, sizeable applications for performing data transformations.

Future-proofing your data requires not only that it be possible to parse it reliably in the future -- you also have to be able to understand it. XML helps future proof the syntax of your data; can we future-proof the semantics, too? How?

As XML technologies make gains in mainstream data processing, the need grows for markup languages that convert legacy data to XML. This presentation identifies use cases for flat-XML conversion, and describes a markup vocabulary that addresses them.

Google recently released the Google Data API, an Atom based protocol to retrieve, query and update data on Google properties. The talk discusses the protocol and libraries, together with sample code, as well as the planned future of the API.

W3C XML Schema allows numerical occurrence ranges in content models, to e.g. allow between 2 and 10 of some element. A new approach to implementing such models is described which is time- and space-efficient, even when such ranges are nested.

Efficient XML has been the topic of heated discussion in the XML community, and while things are quieter today much remains to be debated now that the W3C is working on a format. This talk will cover the past, present, and future of efficient XML.

This presentation describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a high-performance XML parser on the Cell Broadband Engine processor architecture as a part of a system architecture for XML offload and acceleration.

This paper will review the SPARQL specifications and its potential benefits to Web 2.0 applications. Focusing on the SPARQL protocol for RDF, the paper will provide implementation guidance for developers interested in adding SPARQL support to their APIs.

SPARSQL gives existing MySQL clients (PHP, DBI, ODBC, JDBC) RDF query access to MySQL databases. Learn how SPARQL support in MySQL provides the efficiency of relational databases with the versatility of RDF query.

The paper will focus on the practical challenges involved in creating and maintaining a very large triple store. Our repository contains bibliographic metadata spanning 17 million articles; it has 200 million triples from a range of vocabularies.

High performance databases are required to support the semantic alignment and query of RDF data. We will present on a new high performance open-source RDFS store based on a Generic Object Model and its application to federate and query RDF data.

Description of a new markup vocabulary called "Internationalization Tag Set" (ITS), which is used for Internationalization and Localization of XML documents and schemas.

Presentation of a system for publishing the European Combined Nomenclature legislation in twenty languages.

Variant XML formats within a domain are often similar core models with superficial differences in representation. Advanced XML design practices allow a common model to govern multiple syntactic forms.

Treebind is a generic Java Open Source API which binds a number of different hierarchical and graphs data model (XML, RDF, LDAP and Java objects are currently supported). This presentation is also a unique opportunity to compare these data models.

XSLT has roots in DSSSL. DSSSL has roots in the Lisp dialect Scheme. Now, XSieve interweaves both XSLT and Scheme, forming a more powerful XML processing language. XSieve is one of the successful Google "Summer of Code" 2005 projects.

In this presentation, we will show how xfy and IBM DB2 Viper can implement UltraRAD for XML applications, and change and accelerate utilization of information in companies.