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My presentation for XML Europe 2003, this time to be held in London on 5-8/May, was accepted. :-) Its title is "Standards applied: Using Apache Cocoon and Forrest", and here's the abstract as a spoiler:

Cocoon is an XML publishing framework offering novel and sophisticated techniques such as SAX-based streaming pipelines, a complete separation between content, logic and layout, and integration with numerous backend datasources. Forrest is a blueprint Cocoon application, that sits underneath xml.apache.org and numerous other websites using XML and XSLT as their technical underpinnings.
Apache Cocoon is based around the Separation of Concerns principle, making sure each person has exactly those tools and environment, and only those, at their disposal for maintaining the content, logic or style that make up a website, without the possibility to mess up his or her co-workers job. Because of this, making multi-channel or multilingual websites is dead easy with Apache Cocoon.
Apache Forrest is a blueprint application of Apache Cocoon, specifically aimed at technical (software) project websites and documentation: it comes with a set of stylesheets, XML grammars, and validation and rendition tools to easily set up a Cocoon-based website, both statically generated or deployed as a dynamic web application.
This talk, by one of the Cocoon and Forrest committers, will give you a quick intro on the design ideas and internals of these valuable open source projects.

Being a regular attendee of the XML Europe conference, it will be fun to be on the other side. Marc was accepted for hosting a full day XML & Java tutorial, too. Hopefully, my OSCON tutorial gets accepted, too!