# W3C Workshop on XML Schema 1.0 User Experiences

# Logistics

- Parking Lots/Car Parks
- Bathrooms/Conveniences
- Coffee/Tea Breaks and Lunch
- Dinner/Supper Arrangements
- Networking
- IRC: irc.w3.org:6665 #xsd-user
- Photographs
- Tags: w3c schemaexperiences
- Introductions
- Scribes

# The W3C Workshop Process

Process Document:

> The Team organizes workshops to promote early involvement in the development of W3C Activities from Members and the public.

> The goal of a workshop is usually either to convene experts and other interested parties for an exchange of ideas about a technology or policy, or to address the pressing concerns of W3C Members.

Recent W3C Workshops have included:

Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services, Rule Languages for Interoperability, Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services, Multimodal Interaction, Semantic Web for Life Sciences, Web Applications and Compound Documents, Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets, long-term Future of P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages

# Agenda

- Gather user experience with XML Schema 1.0
- Examine problems around the specification and test suite:

  Usability, Implementation, and interoperability

- Examine proposed ways forward
- Gauge interest in further work
- Recommend a course of action to the W3C

# Experience Reports

## Tuesday

15 minutes talks followed by 5 minutes of discussion:

> Jonathan Marsh, WSDL
> Erik Johnson, WS-I
> Jon Calladine, BT
> Michael Rowell, OAGi
> Paul Biron, HL7
> Sridhar Guthula, QuickTree
> Ümit Yalçınalp, SAP
> Steven Ericsson-Zenith, Semeiosis
> Derek Denny-Brown, Douglas Purdy, Microsoft
> Chris Ferris / Noah Mendelson, IBM
> Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Sun
> Ashok Malhotra, Oracle
> Allen Brookes, Rogue Wave
> Mark Nottingham, BEA
> Dan Vint, ACORD

# Identification of Problems

## Tuesday

16:40-17:10
  Summary and analysis: Review of submissions to program committee
17:10-17:40
  Agenda proposals / topics for Day 2

## Wednesday

08:30-09:00
  Finalisation of today's topic agendas

# Examination of Problems

## Wednesday

09:00-10:30
  Panel discussion, XML Schema Working Group and W3C
  - versioning
  - test suite
11:00-12:30
  Topic discussion session 1

# Ways Forward

## Wednesday

13:30-15:00
  "Industry way forward" session: 30 minutes talk and discussion
  - Soumitra Sengupta, Microsoft
  - Ashok Malhotra, Oracle
  - Chris Ferris / Noah Mendelson, IBM
15:30-16:45
  Topic discussion session 2

# Next Steps

## Wednesday

16:45-17:00
  Summary and Next Steps
  - Gauge interest in further work
  - Recommend a course of action to the W3C