We’ve recently seen some interesting developments with Mark Logic in the financial services sector, particularly in the area of derivatives . The activity started with our partnership with docGenix , a spin-off from legal powerhouse Allen & Overy , who has built a MarkLogic -based application for managing derivatives contracts. I’ve blogged about docGenix previously in this post entitled MarkLogic Unleashed on Contracts .

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FpML Derivatives Trading Repositories with MarkLogic Server

Following on the heels of Luc's excellent post on the new ADF 11g carousel component – http://technology.amis.nl/blog/6514/jdeveloper-11112-carousel-component-as-master-and-detail – is another article that shows off this visually attractive component, using it in a slightly different way. Even though the most logical application of the ADF 11gR1 PS1 carousel component is to use for displaying images, the component

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ADF 11g: Carousel is not just for images – on carousels with panelbox, tabs, panelform and input components

A fair bit of work has been done but more is always needed. I think you need to start out with very clear objectives, especially in the following areas: * are you going to try and measure how well the products handle something close to a “real-life” workload (including factors such as updating, database loading, etc), or are you going to measure a small number of synthetic queries? * are you going to make strenuous efforts to get the best possible performance out of each product that you test, or are you simply going to measure what it achieves “out of the box”

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Benchmarking on XQuery Implementation in DBMS

I’m very happy to report that IDC has named Mark Logic “an innovation information access company under $100M to watch.” IDC’s press release is here and a copy of the ($3500 a la carte paid) report is here . Excerpt: New technologies are eliminating boundaries between content and data to enable pervasive access to all relevant information. Contributing to this innovation is a group of small companies with the vision and technology to have an impact on the IT marketplace.

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IDC Names Mark Logic Innovative Information Access Company to Watch

Just a quick post to highlight a story in the San Jose / Silicon Valley Business Journal entitled Mark Logic in San Carlos Saves Customers from Drowning in Data . Excerpt: The San Carlos technology firm offers software that helps businesses store, organize and filter all the data they’ve accumulated, including e-mails and Web pages and other so-called unstructured information that isn’t easily manageable

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Mark Logic Profiled in San Jose / Silicon Valley Business Journal

If you have a bunch of XML and are looking for of a place to put it, then I think I may have come up with a simple test that might be helpful. In talking with prospective vendors of XML repositories (definition: software that lets you store, search, analyze and deliver XML), try to establish what I’ll call “XML vision compatibility.” Quite simply, try to figure out if the vendor’s vision of XML is consistent with your own. To help with that exercise, I’ll define what I see as the three common XML vendor visions: YAFF (yet another file format) YADT (yet another data type) Whole world YAFF Vendors Vendors with the YAFF vision view XML as yet another file format

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XML: YAFF, YADT, or Whole World?

As a technology platform provider, you inevitably have certain visions of what applications your customers will one day build with your product. For example, Mark Logic Founder Christopher Lindblad originally envisioned that customers would spider and enrich Internet content, enabling an XQuery Internet search box as opposed to the typical keyword-oriented one. Christopher’s vision became reality a few years back when we started working in open source intelligence .

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docGenix: MarkLogic Unleashed on Contracts (with Webinar on 10/15/09)

Just a quick post to highlight some (fairly) recent research from Outsell entitled XML: The Necessary Ingredient for Information Publishing (paid, $695) based on a survey run early this year. While the survey had only 30 respondents, so you must generalize with care, I still think the results are interesting and illustrative. Excerpt from the introduction on how XML can help information providers go web 2.0: In our view, XML should be a key ingredient in any publisher’s or information provider’s toolkit.

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XML, “The Necessary Ingredient” Research from Outsell

I’m pleased to announce that the 3rd annual Mark Logic Digital Publishing Summit will be held on Thursday, December 10, 2009 at none other than The Plaza hotel in New York City. More information will be undoubtedly be forthcoming from our marketing department, but I wanted to get the date out for calendar-blocking purposes as soon as possible. [Revision: more information is now available here .] This should be an outstanding event, with I’d guess well over 200 people in attendance, discussing the top issues in the publishing and media business.

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Save The Date: Mark Logic Digital Publishing Summit 12/10/09 at The Plaza

Rick Jelliffe published a number of articles on this, the last one is http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/08/ converting -xml-schemas-to-sche-1.html Best Regards, George — George Cristian Bina XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com Vyacheslav Sedov wrote: > i am very seriously thinking about XSLT-based convertor from XSD to > Schematron rules – i have opinion that Schematron power underestimated > in XML world > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:55 AM, ricardo > queiros wrote: > > Hi, > > I develop a tool for browsing XML Schema files in a easy way.

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Schema reporting tools – XQuery use case?