Visit the Czech Republic for XML Prague 2006

XML Prague is a regular conference on XML for developers, web designers, information managers and students, focusing this year on XML Native Databases and Querying XML.

It has been announced that a full day of experts speaking has now been extended with an additional day dedicated for participants to hold related BoF sessions and workshops.

Here’s the current list of sessions:

Conference Talks (Saturday 17th June)

• xq2xml: transformations on XQueries, David Carlisle
• Index-driven XQuery processing in the eXist XML database, Wolfgang Meier
• XML/RDF Query By Example, Eric van der Vlist
• Optimization in XSLT and XQuery, Michael Kay
• Text Processing through to XML, David Pawson
• XML Data – The Current State of Affairs, Kamil Toman, Irena Ml??nkov?°
• The road to an XSLT/XQuery IDE, George Cristian Bina

Workshops/BOFs (Sunday 18th June)

• First eXist Workshop, Wolfgang Meier
• DocBook BoF, Jirka Kosek

If you manage web sites and you like XML’s powerful and highly extendable capabilities, this is an event you should attend, especially if you’re based in Europe.