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DeltaXML Newsletter - September 2004

The French research group INRIA first reviewed DeltaXML back in 2002 - they've now updated their analysis, and reaffirm their conclusion that DeltaXML "is currently one of the most reliable tools" and now add that we're "the established market leader". There's also a report from Bloor Research discussing the emerging XML change control market. This month we've also included a brief overview of the very successful UK "XML Open" conference.

This month we're also delighted to welcome the European Commission as a customer. We look forward to a long and successful partnership.

Next month we'll be looking ahead to the papers we'll be presenting at XML 2004 in Washington. In the meantime, if you have any feedback on this newsletter or on our products we'd love to hear from you. Please do tell us if you have any suggestions or recommendations for improvement.
Evaluation downloads of the DeltaXML Core API, together with full documentation and online demos, are available at our website: www.deltaxml.com

    - The DeltaXML Team.

Contents

In this newsletter:

Customer Focus: Recent DeltaXML Customers

Recent customers include:

DeltaXML is being used to assist with translation and in technical documentation systems for the automotive industry.
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XML Open Conference

DeltaXML was pleased to support the new XML Open conference in Cambridge, UK last week as sponsors. This proved a valuable event with a strong technical emphasis, and many of the key people who are helping develop XML as a technology platform, including Michael Kay, Sean McGrath, Murata, Makoto of RELAX NG, Jeni Tennison, Henry Thompson, Rick Jeliffe and Uche Ogbuji as well as plenty of newcomers. We look forward to next year's event.

Of particular interest was the growing emphasis on pipelining as a valuable approach to problem solving with XML, with activity in both the W3C and ISO DSDL groups. Work on datatyping in XML is also progressing fast, a consensus appears to be emerging that the current W3C XML Schema Part 2 datatypes can be limiting, there were some useful discussions of possible ways forward. Other valuable presentations included those from 1060 Research on NetKernel, and from Michael Kay on Schema-aware XSLT processing in XSLT 2.0.

At the conference website below you'll find details of the presentations, please do ask if you'd like to discuss the XML forms work we presented.

Weblinks:
http://www.xmlopen.org/

DeltaXML Reviews

 The French national research agency INRIA first published their report on XML comparison technologies in April 2002. Since then, XML change control has moved from an academic discipline to become a distinct market, with an ever-growing list of "XML diff" tools, many of them open source. INRIA have now comprehensively revised this paper, noting some of the improvements we have made and assessing ours as the only product to excel in all areas - producing a near-minimal delta, in near-linear time, with support for orderless matching and keyed comparisons. We're very glad they note that we're "the established market leaders", we are working hard to make sure that we keep that position through innovative R&D and by listening to our customers. Please reply to this email if you'd like a copy of their report.

The UK market research group Bloor Research have also been looking at DeltaXML, we're glad they think so highly of us. Also worth noting is a recent O'Reilly book, "XML Hacks", by Michael Fitzgerald, which looks at some available online XML comparison tools and awards ours the epithet "grokable". We are determined to keep our focus on providing features that developers really want, that solve real problems with easily accessible tools - so we're very pleased with this assessment. Blistering speed and configurability are only part of the picture, ease of use is critical also.

Weblinks:

http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=12110
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlhks/

Diary Dates

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Please let us know whether this newsletter has been useful to you, we welcome any suggestions about information you'd like discussed in future editions. We'll be back next month with another edition.

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