OASIS Releases XML Conformance Test Suite, Second Edition

[Carol Geyer <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS Releases XML Conformance Test Suite, Second Edition

Boston, MA USA; March 5, 2001-- OASIS, the XML interoperability
consortium, together with NIST, the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, announced that the second edition of the popular OASIS XML
Conformance Test Suite would be publicly available March 15, 2001. The
new OASIS conformance test suite, updated to be in sync with XML Second
Edition, includes more than 1,000 new tests.

"Major XML software vendors rely on the OASIS test suite to ensure their
products are compliant with the W3C XML recommendation," said Mary Brady
of NIST, chair of the OASIS XML Conformance Technical Committee. "This
second edition builds on that success and provides additional
conformance tests. We integrated over 1000 new tests contributed by IBM
and modified the test suite to be consistent with changes to the XML
recommendation. Cooperation from the W3C XML Core Working Group was
invaluable in helping us develop comprehensive testing scenarios."

"OASIS, with the assistance of NIST, is uniquely positioned to deliver
reliable, objective XML conformance tests," commented Laura Walker,
executive director of OASIS. "Together, we bring an independent
perspective to the W3C XML recommendation, and that is very important.
We've been developing conformance test suites for three years, and are
gratified that XML technology vendors find these tests instrumental to
their success."

Users and vendors may download the OASIS XML Conformance Test Suite
Second Edition from the Consortium's web site, http://www.oasis-open.org
beginning March 15.

About NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology
(http://www.nist.gov/) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce's
Technology Administration. Established in 1901, NIST strengthens the
U.S. economy and improves the quality of life by working with industry
to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards. It carries
out this mission through a portfolio of four major programs:
Measurements and Standards Laboratories, Advanced Technology Program,
Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and Baldrige National Quality
Award.

About OASIS
OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) is the international, not-for-profit
consortium that advances electronic business by promoting open,
collaborative development of interoperability specifications. With the
United Nations, OASIS sponsors ebXML, a global framework for electronic
business data exchange. OASIS operates XML.ORG, the non-commercial
portal that delivers information on the use of XML in industry. The
XML.ORG Registry provides as an open community clearinghouse for
distributing and locating XML application schemas, vocabularies and
related documents. OASIS serves as the home for industry groups
interested in developing XML specifications. OASIS technical work
embraces conformance, security, business transactions, repositories and
other interoperability issues.

OASIS sponsors include Adobe Systems, Access360, Aerospatiale, AND Data
Solutions, Arbortext, Auto-trol, Aventail, Baltimore Technologies, B-Bop
Associates, BEA Systems, Bentley Systems, Boeing, Bowstreet, Bridge,
Business Logic Corporation, Chrystal Software, Cohesia, Commerce One,
Critical Path, DataChannel, Dataloom, Defense Information Services
Agency, Deutsche Post AG, Documentum, EADS Airbus, eCredit.com, empolis,
Enigma, Excelergy, eXcelon, Extensibility, Extricity, First Call,
Hewlett-Packard, IBM, icomXpress, Informix, Infoteria, Innodata,
Interwoven, IPNet Solutions, ISOGEN, ITEDO, Jamcracker, JetForm,
Logistics Management Institute, Mediaplex, Mercator Software,
Micrografx, Microsoft, Netegrity, Netfish, Netscape/AOL, NextPage, NII
Enterprise Promotion Association, Nimble Technology, NIST, ObjectSpace,
Pick Systems, Pearson Education, Planet 7 Technologies, Popkin Software,
ProNet Technology, Reuters, SAA Consultants, Sabre, SAP, Securant
Technologies, Sequoia Software, SilverStream Software, SoftQuad,
Software AG, Sterling Commerce, StreamServe, Sun Microsystems, Tamalpais
Group, Thomas Technology Solutions, TIBCO, Virtual Access Networks,
Visa, Wavo, webMethods, Whitehill Technologies, Xerox, XML Global,
XMLSolutions and XyEnterprise.

For more information:
Carol Geyer
Director of Communications
OASIS
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
+1.941.284.0403