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Extensible Markup Language

Technical Seminar Presentation-2004

Biplaba Choudhury

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Extensible Markup Language

Introduction

XML is a meta-language, a simplified form of

SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language).
XML was initiated in large parts by Jon Bosak of
Sun Microsystems, Inc., through a W3C working
Group

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XML Overview
What is XML?
Why use XML?
How to use XML?

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What is XML
XML is a generalization of HTML.
XML is a replacement for ASCII
XML provides:
Internationalization using Unicode
Platform independence
Markup for structuring
XML is the future of relational databases
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Why use XML?

Tailor-made markup for structuring
information.
Internationalization and platform
independence.
Support by generic languages and tools:
parsing (DOM, SAX, Expat, XML4J, ...)
schema validation (DTD, XML Schema,
DSD, ...)
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The XML specification

Describes a class of data objects
called XML documents.
Partially describes the behavior of
computer programs which process
them.
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Character data and Markup

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Attributes
Elements can have attributes.
Attributes have values.
Attributes and values are written
within the start-tag.

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Document Type Definitions

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Datatypes in DTD attributes

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Datatypes in DTD attributes

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Default modifiers in DTD attributes

Modifier
1. #REQUIRED
2. #IMPLIED
3. #FIXED

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Description
1. The attributes value
must be specified with
the element.
2. The attribute value can
remain unspecified.

3. The attribute value

cannot be changed
by the user.

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Proof of concept Architecture

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Overarching Issue and Objective

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Logical View of Tasks

Database-to-Database Interoperability
Message-to-Message Interoperability

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Database-to-Database Interoperability

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Message-to-Message Interoperability

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System Architecture

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Conclusion

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