XTech 2007 TITLE

A detailed technical introduction to XQuery 1.0, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0. The XQuery section will provide a solid basis in XQuery. The discussion of XSLT will focus on the new features in 2.0.

How much do cultural differences affect the transposition of models born in the US? Join those who have organized and promoting Barcamps in Paris and jumpstarted the first Parisian co-working space.

This introduction walks you step by step through a simple yet complete Web 2.0 "mashup" application.

Learn how all of openstreetmap works from the server to the client, and then go out and help map Paris!

This BOF session will cover several themes important to those developing and promoting tools for scientific research, collaboration and publishing online.

This tutorial introduces participants to the design and specification of XML vocabularies. XML Schema 1.0 is used, but the emphasis is on the intellectual and social problems of language design.

XForms is the new Web forms technology being widely adopted by industry. This tutorial introduces you to it, and what is new in XForms 1.1

This BOF is targeted at people who develop widgets for various environments, make such systems, or are interested in their reusability across different vendors.

The W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications activity aims to make it easier to create distributed Web applications involving a wide diversity of devices.

Physical hyperlinks promise to bring the web to the physical world. We present a history of physical browsing applications, alongside recent mobile experiments and prototypes.

Many of the most interesting uses of the ubiquitous web rely on knowing where someone or something is. How can we find this information and what can we do with it?

Online virtual worlds are becoming graphical, mainstream and popular. Find out how developers are using HTTP to bridge between the metaverse and the real world.

Making Web apps interact with common "sensor" hardware on mobile devices requires scripting APIs to that hardware -- APIs that haven't been standardized yet. This session looks at what's needed.

Imity is a live experiment piggybacking mobile identity and a social web on the ubiquitous world of bluetooth cell phones.

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Using examples of applications to illustrate the semantic disturbance that takes place when then web hacks objects of everyday lives and when it makes them disappear.

This BOF session focuses on discussion of mechanisms for enabling Web developers to create "location aware" Web applications, through access to user geolocation information exposed to browsers.