3rd Annual XML for Financial Services Conference

The 3rd annual XML for Financial Services conference is scheduled for Jan. 26-28, 2004, at the Flathotel in New York City.  It will concentrate on maximizing interoperability, efficiency and cost savings thru integrated XML-based web services.  All the presentations have not been announced yet, but I will be giving the following Post-Conference Workshop:

Creating Data Driven Graphics with SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a World Wide Web Consortium language specification that describes two-dimensional graphics in XML, and is a natural language for creating data driven graphics like Pie Chart, Bar and Line Graphs. This session will give a brief introduction of the SVG syntax, and will then dive directly into how to efficiently translate your XML data into graphics. The secret to minimizing development time is to create reusable SVG components that utilize intermediate, custom namespaces. The custom namespaces are used to represent the different graphic components (i.e. Bar Graph, Pie Chart), and only the custom namespaces are translated to SVG. The result is that you will only have to translate your XML (like XBRL) into a simple meta-language, and not the more complex SVG. The examples in this session will use XBRL, which will be converted via XSLT to the applicable custom namespace, and JavaScript will be used to convert the custom namespace into the final, interactive SVG.

If it sounds a bit similar to my presentation back at XMLDevCon, it should, but it will be updated to included the new some RCC examples, and more than likely some of the new Longhorn stuff, too (depending on what is publicly available at that time).

The majority of the conference will focus on web services and security, along with presentations on some of the Financial XML based languages.

If you want more info hit the XML for Financial Services site.  It will be updated as more info becomes available.

DonXML