Who should attend: Programmers, managers, and architects involved in the use of XML for Internet applications. Participants should have some exposure to Java and to new developments in the Web arena. They will come away from this tutorial with practical information on XML and related metalanguages, tools that work with them, and how to use these technologies to build Internet applications.

This tutorial emphasizes XML-based data and metadata facilities for the Web.

Topics covered include:

• Introduction to XML
• Processing XML
  • Parsing and searching
  • DOM, SAX models
• XML-related technologies and languages
• XML tools and applications using Java
• Metadata for the Web
  • RDF as a metadata language
  • RDF tools using Java

Neel Sundaresan is a research staff member of the Web technologies group at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He is a lead architect of the Grand Central Station, a large-scale Web application project, and has been working with XML and RDF for the past two years. He wrote IBM's RDF for the XML processor in Java and has led several research efforts in XML at IBM Research. He offers tutorials related to leading-edge technologies and has published research papers at several national and international conferences and workshops. He is a member of the W3C RDF Schema working group.