ENGINEERING MAGORI CONSULTING - The XML technology

About XML.

• What is XML ?

• What is it for ?

• What is new in XML ?

Almost all drafts, which the XML uses, are not new.

• From where does this acceptance come ?

XML offers the possibility to structure data so that they correspond to rules, that it may determine itself.
In this manner we determine designated structured data as documents.

An XML - document constructs itself out of so-called ELEMENTs.

These ELEMENTs have names that can be recognised during the document developments.

These ELEMENT names can be seen as description data both directly to persons to be able to read and understood them and also to search programmes to indicate the adequate meaning of them.

There-with a potentially better quality could be reached during the searching content process through the internet.
Nevertheless the results of the XML - format of documents are not so much alone.
The user orientated formats which are noted in XML can gain actual profit out of this application.

In this sense, XML is solely one basic technology.

If you choose XML as a basis for a project, you will find an access to a large and growing aggregation of tools.
And, because XML is as a W3C- development license free product, you can construct your own characteristic software without paying someone something.
The large and growing support means that you are not tied also to a single bidder.

Objective: To get an overview about the XML (family of techniques), acquire capacity to work with XML.

3. Content of the course

XML - Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 - is a family of techniques: – KEYWORDS –

XML technology-:
- – Introduction. Origin and goals.
XHTML 1.0 ; XHTML 2.0
- – The Extensible HyperText Markup Language. A reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0;
- – Modularization of XHTML; XHTML 1.1 - Module-based XHTML; W3C-XHTML vers. 2.0
CSS
- – Cascading Style Sheets CSS vers.1; vers.2; vers.2.1;..
- – Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL); XSL Transformations (XSLT); XML Path Language (XPath); XSL Formatting Objects;
Namespaces in XML
- – URI syntax; XML namespace URI; system identifier ; public identifier
XML Schemas
- – Basis: XML Schema Part 1: » Structures « Part 2: » Datatypes «
- – Validator for XML Schema; - example application
- – XML Scheme for RDFXML
- – Scheme and Data Management
- – XML Scheme, & RDF Scheme Comparison
- – Logic grammars und XML Scheme
MathML
- – Mathematical Markup Language
SVG
- – Scalable Vector Graphics »vector/raster graphics in XML«
Document Object Model
- – DOM-programming interface for documents
» STEPml» XML Specifications – ( STEP STandard for the Exchange of Product model data) –
- – STEP/EXPRESS and XML; / STEP is an international standard (ISO 10303) /
- – STEP – What is STEP?
- – STEP – STandard for the Exchange of Product model data
- – STEP Modules Repository in XML format.
- – STEP/EXPRESS and XML.
- – XML representation of EXPRESS schemas and data.
- – EXPRESS The information modeling language used to define the STEP standard.
- – XML Representation of EXPRESS Models and Data.
- – XML and EXPRESS as schema definition languages.
- – STEP-XML is a short term for ISO 10303-28.
- – Combining XML with product data standards to enable data sharing and integration.
- – Overview of Meta Model Definition in XML for EXPRESS Representation.
- – XML Representation of Product Data.
- – Product Information Modeling / Product Master Model / Product Data Management (PDM) /
- – Intelligent PDM (IPDM) / Product Lifecycle Management. /
- – MDA Model Driven Architecture.
- – Systems Engineering (Integrated Model-based) - Systems Engineering Information Model.
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4. Internet & WWW - Architecture of the WORLD WIDE WEB.

Tim Berners-Lee : – Design Issues – Architectural and philosophical points

Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One
W3C Recommendation 15 December 2004
–  ABSTRACT :

The World Wide Web uses relatively simple technologies with sufficient scalability, efficiency and utility that they have resulted in a remarkable information space of interrelated resources, growing across languages, cultures, and media.

•  In an effort to preserve these properties of the information space as the technologies evolve, this architecture document discusses the core design components of the Web.

•  They are identification of resources, representation of resource state, and the protocols that support the interaction between agents and resources in the space.

We relate core design components, constraints, and good practices to the principles and properties they support.

–  EDITORS:
•   Ian Jacobs, W3C

•  Norman Walsh, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
–  AUTHORS :

•  See acknowledgments (&8).
Copyright © 2002-2004 W3C ^® World Wide Web Consortium
( MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ERCIM European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University Japan ).
All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply.
–   The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ).

W3C's (World Wide Web Consortium) mission is:

– To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential –
by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web.

W3C Develops Web Standards and Guidelines.

In order for the Web to reach its full potential, the most fundamental Web technologies must be compatible with one another and allow any hardware and software used to access the Web to work together.

W3C refers to this goal as Web interoperability.
By publishing open (non-proprietary) standards for Web languages and protocols,
W3C seeks to avoid market fragmentation and thus Web fragmentation

W3C About the World Wide Web Consortium

–
Tim Berners-Lee , W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web.
Tim Berners-Lee and others created W3C as an industry consortium dedicated to building consensus around Web technologies.
Mr. Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in March 1989 while working at the
European Organization for Nuclear Research   (CERN),
has served as the W3C Director since W3C was founded, in 1994.

Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee with Mark Fischetti.
The original design and ultimate destiny of the WWW, by its inventor.

Documents available from the Web or from any digital representation constitute a significant SOURCE of KNOWLEDGE to be represented, handled and queried.

5. Course duration

Ca. ... hour.Deeper involvement through private conversation is possible.
Reference:The advisor Dipl. Ing. Johann Magori - CAE system specialist - member of the engineer chamber in Hessen

» Complement of the content according to the needs: «
- - Formulating the learning objectives according to the needs.
- - Continuing education at appointments most favourable for you
- - Reduction of travel costs and loss times

6. References « Die XML - Technologie. » Introductions and Overviews. / Applications and Initiatives

Short References « XML -family of technology. » : Introductions and Overviews. / Applications and Initiatives	Editors ABSTRACT Autors
[1]What XML Means( K. R. Riggs - CIS Department, Florida, A&M University )
[2]Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML): General Introductions and Overviews ( International Standard ISO 8879:1986. )
[3] Extending Your Markup: An XML Tutorial.( By André Bergholz -Stanford University- )
[4]XML: The Foundation for the Future. ( By Mike Hogan, POET Software -White Paper- )
[5]XML and the Second-Generation Web.( From the May 1999 Scientific American Magazine - Feature Articles )
[6] Representation and Organization of Information in the Web Space... (Jian Qin School of Information Studies, Syracuse University)
[7]STEP - What is STEP? (STEP Tools Incorporated. )
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[0] Timeline of Computing History.( Bob Carlson, Angela Burgess, and Christine Miller; IEEE Computer Society)
[01] History of the Web.(© Oxford Brookes University 2002)
[A] Generating answers! – in 21^th Century. –
[B]PAN EUROPEAN - INTERCONNECTED KNOWLEDGE POOLS - ENGINEERING NETWORKING.( Euro-CASE )
[C]COOPERATE PLUS.( LEONARDO DA VINCI" Community Vocational Training Action Programme "e-Learning")
[D] W3C - Short References -

[ 1 ] What XML Means
Published in Journal of Conceptual Modeling    May 2003   Issue: 28
–  ABSTRACT :
The following two quotes were denigrated in a recent article:
1) There really is no difference between a document and a database.
2) XML data is fundamentally different from relational data
[relational structure] can led to inefficiencies in queries and retrievals.
While both of these claims were denounced, they both do contain substantial truth.
This article will consider to what extent they are true.
It will also present XML as a reasonable data model with characteristics of special interest.

Natural language is more general, expressive and difficult than relational databases. Nevertheless, texts certainly do store data and do require a model (background knowledge) to be information try reading in a foreign language or in an unknown theoretical field in your own language.
Since natural language is a proliferating machine-readable data source, thanks to the web, it is of legitimate interest as a data object. Unfortunately the problem of extracting data from general text is not solved, perhaps not even solvable.

XML offers an approach in which the users of language can mark the significant factual content of text.

The raison d’etre of XML is marking, not data management. However to mark content implies that some level of data management must be inherent. Moreover the simple, hierarchical structure of XML, the expressiveness of tags and the flexible range of constraints available through the DTD (a BNF equivalent) creates a data model adaptable to many sources text, formula, database or programmatic data.
This article proceeds by examining Pascal’s definition of data model. A simple data model for XML is given and is examined against Pascal’s definition of and requirements for a data model. Some characteristics unique to XML are shown and an argument is made that it is simple in a meaningful sense.
–  AUTOR:

•  Ken Roger Riggs, Ph.D. is a computer scientist and a professor of CIS at Florida A&M University.
His degrees are in Philosophy (Indiana University) , Computer Science (U. of Central Florida) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (U. of Miami ).
He has been involved in a mix of practice, research and teaching since 1976. His interest in models is both practical and pedagogical.
His recent published work includes papers on AI, databases, datamining and XML marking.
Other recent publications address conceptual modeling related issues in software engineering (refactoring) and programming languages.
Contact Information:

K. R. Riggs
CIS Department Florida A&M University
Tallahassee, FL 32307
<riggs@cis.famu.edu>
Florida A&M University. Dr. Riggs

[ 6 ] Representation and Organization of Information in the Web Space: From MARC to XML
by Jian Qin School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
–  ABSTRACT :

Representing and organizing information in libraries has a long tradition of using rules and standards.

As the very first standard encoding format forbibliographic data in libraries, MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC) format is being joined by a large number of new formats since the late 1980s.

The new formats, mostly SGML/HTML based, are actively taking a role in representing and organizing networked information resources.

This article briefly describes the historical connection between MARC and the newer formats for representing information and the current development in XML applications
that will benefit information/knowledge management in the new environment.

–  AUTOR :

•  Jian Qin  Associate Professor

•  School of Information Studies.

•  Syracuse University.   343 Hinds Hall, Syracuse, New York (NY) 13244-4100

[ 7 ] STEP – What is STEP?
Copyright © 2009 STEP Tools Incorporated. All Rights Reserved

–  ABSTRACT :
STEP can be used to exchange data between CAD, Computer-aided manufacturing, Computer-aided engineering, Product Data Management/EDM and other CAx systems. STEP is addressing product data from mechanical and electrical design, Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, analysis and manufacturing, with additional information specific to various industries such as automotive, aerospace, building construction, ship, oil and gas, process plants and others.

STEP is developed and maintained by the ISO technical committee TC 184, Technical Industrial automation systems and integration, sub-committee SC4 Industrial data.
Like other ISO and IEC standards STEP is copyright by ISO and is not freely available........

–  Contact Information:

•  STEP Tools, Inc.

•  14 First Street
•  Troy, New York 12180. USA.

[D]W3C - Short References :	Editors ABSTRACT Autors
W3C – Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)
W3C – XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
W3C – XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Third Edition )
W3C – XHTML™ 2.0
W3C – HTML 5 – A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML.
W3C – Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Second Edition)
W3C – W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 1: Structures
W3C – W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes.
W3C – Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification
W3C – Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification. Version 1.0.
W3C – Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0
W3C – Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 Specification.
W3C – Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification.
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The XML - technology.

– XML of manager perspective –

1. Target group.

2. Aim of the course

3. Content of the course

4. Internet & WWW - Architecture of the WORLD WIDE WEB.

5. Course duration

6. References « Die XML - Technologie. » Introductions and Overviews. / Applications and Initiatives