XML at Microsoft: Today and Tomorrow David Turner XML Product Manager Microsoft Corporation

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XML at Microsoft Today and TomorrowDavid
TurnerXML Product ManagerMicrosoft Corporation
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Evolution To Web Services
XML
HTML
TCP/IP
Programmability
Presentation
Connectivity
FTP, E-mail, Gopher
Web Pages
Web Services
Browse the Web
Program the Web
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Programming the WebWeb Services Tie It All
Together
Integrated Platform Tools
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Platform Support

• Internet Explorer 5.0
• Windows 2000
• MSXML

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MSXML The Parser

• Available for stand alone redistribution
• Features
• High-performance, validating XML engine
• XML 1.0
• XML Document Object Model (DOM)
• Namespaces
• Support for XSL Working Draft
• XML Schemas
• Accessible from C, VB, Jscript, VBScript, Java,
  etc.
• Direct browsing of native XML in the brower
• Using XSL or CSS

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MSXML2 Technology Preview

• Initial support for XSLT and XPath
• Continued focus on server-side use
• New features to optimize throughput
• Caching stylesheets
• Passing parameters to stylesheets
• Passing objects to stylesheets
• Setting the mode at run-time
• XPath caching
• Schema caching
• Validation against in-memory schema

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Developer Support

• Visual Studio 6
• Multiple programming models
• DOM
• COM
• ADO
• Visual Studio 7
• Native, integrated support for XML

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Infrastructure

• BizTalk Server 2000
• Commerce Server 2000
• Host Integration Server
• SQL Server 2000
• Exchange 2000
• Repository XIF (meta data)

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Other Product Usage

• Internet Explorer 5.0
• Office 2000
• Meta data, properties, state info
• DATA charts, formulae, pivot tables
• Windows 2000
• WebDAV, WMI
• Money 2000
• Vizact 2000
• Outlook Express
• WebTV

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Information and Services

• Product Support Services (PSS)
• 180,000 Knowledge Base articles
• www.microsoft.com/catalog
• MSN
• MoneyCentral
• bCentral
• MSDN
• MSDN Training
• MS Press

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Summary

• XML
• Is integral to the vision for building
  next-generation Web applications
• Is a key technology in Microsofts Windows DNA
  2000 platform
• Microsoft supports XML standards
• Microsoft is integrating XML support into its
  product and technology offerings

http//msdn.microsoft.com/xml
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