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Subject: Members Approve XML Catalogs as OASIS Standard


Members Approve XML Catalogs as OASIS Standard  

Debian, PTC (Arbortext), Sun Microsystems and Others Define Specification for 
Resource Mapping 

Boston, MA, USA; 29 November 2005 -- OASIS, the international e-business 
standards consortium, today announced that its members have
approved XML Catalogs version 1.1 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies 
the highest level of ratification. XML Catalogs
defines mechanisms to facilitate machine processing of XML entities associated 
with external identifiers, allowing references to web
resources, such as files, images, stylesheets, and schemas, to be mapped to 
other resources.

"XML Catalogs play an important role in processing XML, enabling the use of 
known, trusted, and available resources under
circumstances in which this would otherwise not be possible," said Lauren Wood 
of  Sun Microsystems, chair of the OASIS Entity
Resolution Technical Committee. "The standard is stable and has been widely 
implemented."

Entity resolution refers to the procedure used by an XML processor to locate a 
resource or external file on the web. The processor
applies the file's labeling information (such as its system identifier and 
possibly a name, public identifier, etc.) to determine
the actual location of the external file. This determination process, which 
'maps' the known labeling information into an actual
location, is referred to as entity resolution. The file that contains the 
specific mapping information is known as the XML catalog.

"As a way to help systems work in practice, XML catalogs are such an essential 
part of the XML infrastructure that they predate XML
itself," said Jon Bosak, organizer and chair of the original XML Working Group 
and a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems.
"Catalogs were one of the first and most important specifications released by 
SGML Open, the organization now known as OASIS. It's
great to see this foundational part of the infrastructure brought up to date 
with web-oriented processing and XML features."

"The XML Catalogs OASIS Standard is essential, because XML itself does not 
specify entity management in any detail," noted Patrick
Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. "By enabling intelligent mapping, XML 
Catalogs allows machine processing to deal with realities
encountered on the Web today. External identifiers may require resources that 
are not always available,  protocols may not be
accessible to different types of software on a single computer. XML Catalogs is 
a big step forward for interoperability of XML
documents."

All interested parties are encouraged to exchange information on implementing 
XML Catalogs via the xmlcatalogs-dev mailing list
(http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/). As with all Consortium projects, 
archives of the OASIS Entity Resolution Committee's work are
accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS hosts an open mail list 
for public comment on the standard.


Support for XML Catalogs OASIS Standard 

"As a long-time supporter of XML and related standards, PTC welcomes this new 
catalog standard to the fold," said PG Bartlett, vice
president product management for Arbortext solutions, PTC. "Easing customer 
implementations and information sharing remains one of
our top priorities." 


About OASIS:

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is 
a not-for-profit, international consortium that
drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. 
Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using
a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus 
and unite disparate efforts. The consortium produces
open standards for Web services, security, e-business, and standardization 
efforts in the public sector and for application-specific
markets. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 5,000 participants representing 
over 600 organizations and individual members in 100
countries. Approved OASIS Standards include AVDL, CAP, DITA, DocBook, DSML, 
ebXML CPPA, ebXML Messaging, ebXML Registry,
OpenDocument, SAML, SPML, UBL, UDDI, WSDM, WS-Reliability, WSRP, WS-Security, 
XACML, XCBF, and XML Catalogs.
http://www.oasis-open.org


Additional information:

OASIS Entity Resolution Technical Committee 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity

XML Catalogs OASIS Standard FAQ
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/faq.php


Press contact: 
Carol Geyer
Director of Communications
OASIS 
carol.geyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx  
+1.978.667.5115 x209




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