XML Workshop

Sat Sep 30, 2000
Central Lecture Theatre
IIT Bombay

8:30 - 10:05 Introduction to XML

8.30 - 8.40: Intro to workshop
8.40 - 9.30: Sharat Chandran (IIT): Introduction to XML
  • What is XML, motivation, XSL, XSLT, XML parsers ... (some demos perhaps with student help)
  • XML and databases: why?
  • why the hype?
* (Both of the above are generic XML, nothing to do with the database)
9.30 - 9.50: Siddhesh Bhobhe (PSPL): Working with XML and Relational Databases
Some examples (this will cover pulling XML from relational data into Java, pushing XML data as relational data back into the database, and pulling data from the database using XML into a web browser)
9.50 - 10.05: (IIT): Scientific Applications of XML * Chemistry XML, MathML, Genetics..

10.05 - 10.30: Coffee Break

10.30 - 12.30 XML Databases

10.30 - 10.50: Charuta Nakhe (IIT): XQL and XML-QL
10.50 - 11.10: Maya (IISc): XML storage (coordinate with Sharat)
11.10 - 11.40: Shailaja + Raghu (IIT): XML Query Processing * XML Algebra, Indexing and Query Processing
11.40 - 12.10: Kamal Satish (PSPL): XML Directories (DSML)
12.10 - 12.30: Ashish Tendulkar (PSPL): SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) * XML RPC over HTTP

12.30 - 1.45: Lunch (on your own for all IIT people, catered for external visitors and speakers/organizers)

1.45 - 2.45 XML and Business

1.45 - 2.15 : D. B. Phatak (IIT): Business applications for XML
2.15 - 2.45 : Arvind Pandey (PSPL): XML in E-Commerce
2.15 - 2.45 : Vasudev Kamat (PSPL): XML Based Business Standards * Commerce net, commerce 1, biztalk

2:45 - 3:00 Coffee Break

3.00 - 5.00 XML In use

3.00 - 3.20: Paresh Borkar (PSPL): XML in Use: Case study of Oblix
3.20 - 3.40: Shridhar Bhat (PSPL): XML in Universal Plug and Play Protocol
3.40 - 4.00: Unmesh Kulkarni (PSPL): XML as Middleware for CORBA
4.00 - 4.20: Siddhesh Bhobhe (PSPL): Challenges in XML
4.20 - 4.40: Akhilesh Mritunjai (IIT): XML and Web
4.40 - 5.00: Shalabh Chaturvedi (PSPL) :XML in Mozilla

5.00 - 5.10 Conclusion, Vote of Thanks