1. XML Conformance Testing Project Members Mary Brady, Project Leader Carmelo Montanez-Rivera Rick Rivello Mark Zimmerman Information Technology Laboratory Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division Standards and Conformance Testing Group

2. Electronic Commerce XMLTechnologies B2C (business-to-consumer) Interactive Television (DASE) Internet / World Wide Web B2B (business-to-business) Manufacturing (ICM) Distributed Learning (IMS)

3. HTML or XML? Figure 1: HTML Purchase Order Purchase Order Mary Brady NN Rm 572, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899 1234 Trees 50.00 20 1000.00 Be sure to water the root ball day of delivery Susan Carscadden NIST, Bldg 301, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899 </UL What is XML? Domain-specific languages Data separate from display Self-describing data Schemas Mary Brady 1234 Trees 50.00 20 1000.00 Be sure to water the root ball day of delivery Susan Carscadden Figure 2: XML Purchase Order

4. XML Technologies XML Syntax, Information Set, Schema, Linking, Fragment Registries Repositories Namespaces Programming Languages DOM Electronic Commerce, Distance Learning, Health Care Manufacturing, Interactive Television Transformations Formatting Objects StylesheetsQuery Language Signatures Information Description RatingsLibrariesControl Domain Specific BoardsMedicalEducationProcurement... Auto Parts XML.ORG BIZTalk E-Business Learning Objects XML/EDI...

5. XML Conformance Testing OASIS XML Conformance Sun, IBM, Fuji Xerox, DataChannel, MicroStar, W3C members Why NIST/ITL? Technical Leadership Coalesced industry partners 18 months First Deliverable XML Test Suite XML files & XSL Stylesheet 6 months XML Test Suite 1000 XML Tests DTD + 4000 lines of XML 400 lines of XSL Stylesheet Future Work XML StyleSheets, Schemas XML NS, XLink, XPtr Continued Support

6. OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) is a non-profit, international consortium dedicated solely to product-independent data and content interchange. Focusing on product interoperability, OASIS embraces the complete spectrum of structured information standards including XML, SGML and CGM. OASIS sponsors include Adobe Systems, Aerospatiale, AND-USA, Arbortext, Bentley Systems, Boeing, Bowstreet, Chrystal Software, Cohesia, Commerce One, CommerceNet, Corel, DataChannel, DMSi, Documentum, Dun & Bradstreet, eCredit.com, Enigma, Extricity Software, GCA, IBM, InformIT, Informix, InterCAP, Interleaf, Interwoven, ISOGEN, ITEDO, JetForm, Keyfile, Microsoft, NextPage, NII Enterprise Promotion Association, NIST, Object Design, Object Management Group (OMG), Open Applications Group, Oracle, ProNet Technology Partners, Reed Technology, Reuters, Sabre, Sequoia Software, SoftQuad, Software AG, STEP, StreamServe, Sun Microsystems, Synthbank, Wavo, Xerox, XMLSolutions and XyEnterprise.http://www.oasis-open.org

7. Adobe Systems, Inc. Aerospatiale AND-USA Inc. Arbortext, Inc. Bentley Systems Boeing Commercial Airlines Chrystal Software Cohesia Corporation Commerce One CommerceNet Corel Corporation DataChannel, Inc. Document Mgmt Solutions, Inc. Documentum Dun & Bradstreet eCredit.com Enigma Incorporated eXcelon Corporation Extricity Software Graphic Communications Association IBM Corporation InformIT/Pearson Education Informix Software, Inc. InterCAP Graphics Systems, Inc. Interleaf Inc. Interwoven Inc. ISOGEN International Corp ITEDO Software GmbH JetForm Corporation Keyfile Corporation Microsoft NextPage NII Enterprise Promotion Association NIST Object Management Group (OMG) Open Applications Group, Inc. Oracle Corporation ProNet Technology Partners LLC Reed Technology Reuters Limited Sabre Sequoia Software SoftQuad Software Inc. Software AG STEP (Sturtz Electronic Publishing GmbH) StreamServe, Inc. Sun Microsystems Synth-Bank Wavo, Inc. Whitehill Technologies, Inc. Xerox Corporation XMLSolutions Corporation Xyvision Enterprise Solutions Inc.

8. DOM Conformance Testing W3C, OASIS Sun, IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, Oracle XML ‘98 Met with W3C WG Chair NIST/ITL asked to develop tests XML ‘98 NIST Released Fundamental, Extended (ECMAScript)Fundamental, Extended (ECMAScript) Interactive test harness June ‘99 DOM Test Suite 800 ECMAScript Tests 30,000 lines of code Future Work Fundamental, Extended (Java) HTML (ECMAScript & Java) DOM Level 2 Continued Support

9. Summary Advances in EC depend on XML SDCT develops tests to improve XML products SDCT applies IT expertise to vertical markets Will continue to work in core technology as well as vertical market arenas http://www.nist.gov/xml/