PLAN-X:
Programming Language Technologies for XML
Thursday, 3 October 2002, Pittsburgh, PA
13 January 2004, Venice; colocated with
POPL 2004
XML has emerged as the de facto standard for data interchange on the web.
The use of XML as a common format for representation, interchange, and
transformation of data poses new challenges to programming languages,
applications, and database systems. During the last few years, the
database research community has devoted a lot of attention to XML's data
representation challenges, as evidenced by the number of XML-related
publications in premier database conferences and journals.
In contrast, the attention devoted to XML by the programming language
research community has been minimal. This is unfortunate, since the
robustness of current and future programming standards and tools for XML
will depend on the strength of their foundations in core programming
technologies e.g., XML parsing (parsing theory and incremental parsing),
XML schemas (type systems), XPATH expressions and XSLT programs
(pattern-matching languages and their optimization), XSLT debuggers
(dynamic program analysis and slicing). Since XML is a new domain, core
programming technologies developed in past research cannot be used
unchanged; instead, novel research is required to address the unique
challenges posed by XML and its use in web applications and standalone
applications.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers from the programming
languages and XML communities,
- to foster novel research to address unique challenges posed by XML
on current and future programming technologies;
- to exchange information on early research experiences with XML-related
programming systems, tool, and languages; and
- to expose the PLI community to XML technologies and the potential
impact of these technologies on future software.
Submission procedure
We solicit submissions on original research not previously published or
currently submitted for publication elsewhere, in the form of extended
abstracts. These extended abstracts should not exceed 5000 words
(approximately 10 pages); shorter extended abstracts (e.g., 2000 words)
are often sufficient.
Proceedings
There will be no formal proceedings. An informal proceedings will be
distributed at the workshop.
Important Dates (Note: Deadline has changed!)
- Paper submission deadline: 31 May 2002
- Notification of acceptance: 31 July 2002
- Final papers due: 4 September 2002
General Chair
Invited Speaker
Program Committee
- Allen Brown (Microsoft)
- Peter Buneman (U Edinburgh)
- Sophie Cluet (Xylem / INRIA)
- Mary Fernandez (AT&&T Labs)
- Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown University)
- Makota Murata (IBM Japan)
- Benjamin Pierce (U Penn), co-chair
- Michael Schwartzbach (Aarhus)
- Dan Suciu (U Washington)
- Philip Wadler (Avaya Labs), co-chair
Philip Wadler