XML Exchange Research Articles

DEVELOPMENT OF ALGORITHMS FOR THE GEOSPATIAL ARRAY VISUALIZATION MODULE DATA IN XML FORMAT

The purpose of the article is development of the issue of increasing the efficiency of the automation and visu-alization procedure for creating documentation based on the use of XML-files, which, unlike existing ones, simpli-fies data exchange and presentation, which allows to automate document flow while maintaining accurate data description. Stationary or portable technical devices in which information is stored in XML files are usually used as visu-alization tools. Such files are used to exchange information between the decision maker, users and spatially dis-tributed systems and are called exchange. The XML format significantly minimizes the amount of memory on the media, in this format, any tags are created that are analogous to the fields in the table. The XML exchange file is also one of the tools for filling the cartographic basis of the urban cadastre and cadastres of other natural re-sources. The study improved the method of monitoring regional resources, based on the methodology of parallel cal-culations, which, in contrast to existing ones, can be used to process large amounts of spatially distributed infor-mation, which improves the monitoring system of regional resources in processing complex structured requests and too many spatial objects. Thus, the control, classification, coding and reliability of information with the re-production of missing data by verification, conversion and validation of archival or new spatially distributed information. All developed models, methods and software and hardware for building regional resources monitoring have been brought to the level of engineering methods, algorithms and software tools for computer implementation. Methods and algorithms are implemented using Digitals, FastReport software and C # programming languages. The approbation of the developed technology is carried out on the example of separate parts of the Kharkiv city and the village of Kotlyary territories.

Software aspects of the Geant4 validation repository

The Geant4, GeantV and GENIE collaborations regularly perform validation and regression tests for simulation results. DoSSiER (Database of Scientific Simulation and Experimental Results) is being developed as a central repository to store the simulation results as well as the experimental data used for validation. DoSSiER is easily accessible via a web application. In addition, a web service allows for programmatic access to the repository to extract records in JSON or XML exchange formats. In this article, we describe the functionality and the current status of various components of DoSSiER as well as the technology choices we made.

A Study for the Message Exchange of the EVSE Communication Controller using XML Schema Transformation

An EVSE and the EV exchange XML formatted communication messages with each other, whose structure is described by the V2G CI schema in the ISO/IEC 15118 international standard, and the EVSE and the power grid exchange messages based on SCL file with each other, whose structure is described by SCL schema in the IEC 61850 international standard. Because XML files can be restructured by XSLT, V2G messages can be transformed to/from SCL files using XSLT. In this study, the two schemas are analyzed and compared in order for the restructuring of the two differently structured XML instances. As a result, two XSL scripts can be produced for the transformation between XML files conforming ISO/IEC 15118 V2G CI schema and IEC 61850 SCL schema respectively to avoid manual data mapping which can happen in every application development cases.

Exploring and exploiting a historical corpus for Arabic

This paper presents a historical Arabic corpus named HAC. At this early embryonic stage of the project, we report about the design, the architecture and some of the experiments which we have conducted on HAC. The corpus, and accordingly the search results, will be represented using a primary XML exchange format. This will serve as an intermediate exchange tool within the project and will allow the user to process the results offline using some external tools. HAC is made up of Classical Arabic texts that cover 1600 years of language use; the Quranic text, Modern Standard Arabic texts, as well as a variety of monolingual Arabic dictionaries. The development of this historical corpus assists linguists and Arabic language learners to effectively explore, understand, and discover interesting knowledge hidden in millions of instances of language use. We used techniques from the field of natural language processing to process the data and a graph-based representation for the corpus. We provided researchers with an export facility to render further linguistic analysis possible.

DEVELOPING AN ebXML COMPATIBLE B2B COLLABORATION PROTOTYPE AND REFERENCE MODEL: The Viewpoint of Business Process Integration

In the digital information networking age, because of circulation and convergence of the information, the cost for enterprises to find trading partners to do business is getting lower and lower. By the emergence of e-Marketplace, it gathers a great number of buyers and sellers. It can promote business transactions and break the barriers, such as country and time, among trading partners. The enterprise may increase business revenue on the e-Marketplace. But only via integrating the e-Marketplace operation processes and corporation’s internal processes, it can fulfill the requests and provide services on e-Marketplace as rapidly as possible. In this research we follow the Electronic Business XML (ebXML) specification that is planned by The United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) and The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). The vision of ebXML is to create a single global electronic marketplace where enterprises of any size and in any geographical location can meet and conduct business with each other through the exchange of XML based messages. We build an ebXML compatible collaboration module to deal with Business-to-Business integration issues. Via this module we can run business-to-business processes integration smoothly and reduce the integration cost with using ebXML specification.

Refactoring legacy AJAX applications to improve the efficiency of the data exchange component

The AJAX paradigm encodes data exchange XML formats. Recently, JSON has also become a popular data exchange format. XML has numerous benefits including human-readable structures and self-describing data. However, JSON provides significant performance gains over XML due to its light weight nature and native support for JavaScript. This is especially important for Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Therefore, it is necessary to change the data format from XML to JSON for efficiency purposes. This paper presents a refactoring system (XtoJ) to safely assist programmers migrate existing AJAX-based applications utilizing XML into functionally equivalent AJAX-based applications utilizing JSON. We empirically demonstrate that our transformation system significantly improves the efficiency of AJAX applications.

Efficiency of TreeMatch Algorithm in XML Tree Pattern Matching

In Recent days exchange XML data more often in organizations and business sectors, so there is an increasing need for effective and efficient processing of queries on XML data. This paper presents a wide analysis to identify the efficiency of XML tree pattern matching algorithms. Previous years many methods have been proposed to match XML tree queries efficiently. In particularly TwigStack, OrderedTJ, TJFast and TreeMatch algorithms. All algorithms to achieve something through these own ways like structural relationship including Parent - Child (P-C) relationship (denoted as '/') and Ancestor-Descendent (A-D) relationships (denoted as '//') and more. Finally, we report our results to show that which algorithm is superior to previous approaches in terms of the performance. Keywords - Efficient TPQ, Efficiency of Tree pattern, XML Tree pattern

A Business Integration Model Used in Collaborative Engineering Design

Collaborating among engineers is very important in modern design of complex system. A Information system is usually used to help engineers to get the basic information for product design flexibly and officially. But the gap of different system blocks the information transmitting, and interrupts the process of business flow. A Business Integration Model based on XML exchange file is discussed in this paper. It is conceived to help engineers working on engineering design transmit information and arose process between different application systems.

The ProteoRed MIAPE web toolkit: A User-friendly Framework to Connect and Share Proteomics Standards

The development of the HUPO-PSI's (Proteomics Standards Initiative) standard data formats and MIAPE (Minimum Information About a Proteomics Experiment) guidelines should improve proteomics data sharing within the scientific community. Proteomics journals have encouraged the use of these standards and guidelines to improve the quality of experimental reporting and ease the evaluation and publication of manuscripts. However, there is an evident lack of bioinformatics tools specifically designed to create and edit standard file formats and reports, or embed them within proteomics workflows. In this article, we describe a new web-based software suite (The ProteoRed MIAPE web toolkit) that performs several complementary roles related to proteomic data standards. First, it can verify that the reports fulfill the minimum information requirements of the corresponding MIAPE modules, highlighting inconsistencies or missing information. Second, the toolkit can convert several XML-based data standards directly into human readable MIAPE reports stored within the ProteoRed MIAPE repository. Finally, it can also perform the reverse operation, allowing users to export from MIAPE reports into XML files for computational processing, data sharing, or public database submission. The toolkit is thus the first application capable of automatically linking the PSI's MIAPE modules with the corresponding XML data exchange standards, enabling bidirectional conversions. This toolkit is freely available at http://www.proteored.org/MIAPE/.

XML exchange of control programs

The XML interface defined by PLCopen allows software reuse through interoperability between development tools, as it provides the ability to transfer the information that is on the screen to other platforms. This article presented a way to give any development environment that does not yet support the PLCopen interface the ability to import/export XML files following such a format and, thus, making code really exchangeable. However, the profit to be made may be much more than code reuse, as the interface can be used to interoperate with other software tools, such as configuration, documentation, version control, modeling, and simulation tools.

Approach to general data model of GIS symbol library and symbol library data exchange XML schema

Symbol portrayal is an important function of GIS. Sharing symbolic information in different GIS platforms is necessary for GIS applications and users. This paper discusses the necessity, possibility and solution technique of sharing a symbol library in different GIS platforms. The route map is designed as follows: first, to set up a general data model for the symbol library, then to design a standard exchange format, and finally to call on the GIS manufacturer to provide the interchange tools for their symbol library for the standard exchange format. This paper analyzes the general characteristics of GIS symbolic library, gives a symbol library model and a draft of XML schema of the symbol library exchange format.

Enhancing geophysical best practices with open standards

Energistics, formerly known as the Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium (POSC), is a not-for-profit membership organization with 80 current members representing all segments of the upstream oil and gas industry, as well as government agencies, industry associations, and academia. Upstream exploration and production (EP EP reference data standards; and XML exchange standards, design guidelines and profiles, the most prominent of which are WITSML and PRODML. Members participate in a number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) whose efforts are concentrated around drilling, production, data management, regulatory, geophysics, and other relevant areas of interest.

A New Version of GTXL : An Exchange Format for Graph Transformation Systems

GTXL (Graph Transformation Exchange Language) is designed to support and stimulate developers to provide their graph transformation-based tools with an exchange functionality regarding the integration with other tools. For this exchange XML was chosen as underlying technology. The exchange of graphs is facilitated by the exchange format GXL which is also XML-based. GTXL uses GXL to describe the graph parts of a graph transformation system. A first version of GTXL arose from the format discussion within the EU Working Group APPLIGRAPH. Trying to restimulate the discussion on a common exchange format for graph transformation systems, this paper presents a new version of GTXL. Three important changes have been made. At first, an integrated presentation of rules is introduced, secondly the expression of more general conditions is supported and finally the storage of the underlying semantics of a graph transformation system by means of special attributes is proposed.

Doing business the 'e-savvy' way pays off for oil company and suppliers

Abstract This report on how Canadian oil and gas company EnCana has worked with Schlumberger on improving the business processes of its US operations is a follow up to the Special Topic feature from DigitalOilfield, published in the January issue of First Break, on the emerging use of e-technology to conduct business more efficiently. Just as every detail of reservoir information is processed to derive the most value, every detail of electronic business transactions can yield immediate and long-term rewards. Within the energy sector, the advantages gained from real-time data for on-the-spot decision-making now extend beyond the realm of improvements in E&P exploration, exploitation and production technology to include business systems and processes. One example of how trading partners can examine ledger processes and implement application-to-application integration comes from EnCana Oil&Gas (USA) and Schlumberger who now claim short- and long-term benefits from doing business electronically. A first milestone in automated electronic exchange of PIDX XML (Petroleum Industry Data Exchange Extensible Markup Language) invoice information was reached in early 2003. Industry players were introduced to true application-to-application integration and a new mechanism that would reduce costs, automate repetitive and manual processes, and shorten cycle times. Since then, energy companies and service firms have been attempting to implement eBusiness processes in the most cost-effective and efficient manner. EnCana first piloted the Digital Oilfield OpenInvoice internet-based eInvoicing at its Rifle, Colorado field in December 2001. OpenInvoice allowed EnCana’s suppliers and employees and authorized users to collaborate on the creation, processing, and approval of invoices and field tickets. For suppliers, the OpenInvoice system was used to automate paper-driven processes by automatically coding line items, tracking invoice inquiries, resolving disputes, and seamlessly linking spend information. Some suppliers already possess automated field data capture and invoicing processes linked to backend Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. For over 10 years these systems have successfully exchanged large numbers of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) documents with customers, and today capture and analyze critical business information. At the time EnCana piloted its programme, the OpenInvoice system required suppliers to manually input service delivery information, scan, and upload delivery tickets, code services and log in for dispute resolution as part of the browser-based process. However, it was recognized that the integrated suppliers of EnCana needed an alternative solution to achieve the same benefits. The solution was systems integration.

Web-based exchange of biochemical information

In this paper we present a web-based system for the semantic integration of biological data using a database model and an XML exchange format. The prototype developed integrates data related to enzymes.

Implementing a MIRC query interface for a database driven teaching file.

This paper describes the authors' experience with integrating an existing database-driven teaching file with the RSNA (Radiological Society of North America) Medical Imaging Resource Center (MIRC). MIRC is the product of an RSNA-sponsored initiative to enable medical institutions to share their electronic medical content (images, text, and multimedia) by creating a distributed repository accessible from the Internet. An existing database-driven teaching file, developed by the authors and used extensively by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Radiology since 1998, was retrofitted to include an interface for handling broadcast queries initiated by a MIRC query service. These queries take place through the exchange of XML documents via HTTP. After all the storage services have responded, the results are collated by the query service and presented to the user. The teaching file and MIRC interface were developed using the 4th Dimension Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). The integration process primarily involved mapping the "MIRCdocument" schema to the teaching file's schema, translating the actual MIRC query into the internal query language of the database and extending the access control mechanisms of the teaching file to allow public access. A working implementation of the interface required only 3 days of development time, with refinements taking place over several months. Interface development was greatly aided by MIRC's use of well-established Internet standards. This project has demonstrated the feasibility of implementing a MIRC interface on an existing teaching file server.

XML Representation of STEP Schemas and Data

The first Technical Note in this series [1] introduced the international standard ISO 10303, informally known as STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data). Subsequent Technical Notes discussed various issues faced by users of STEP and how the ISO TC184/SC4 committee is addressing these issues. This article discusses the representation of STEP data using the Extensible Markup Language (XML). We begin by presenting XML’s advantages as an exchange medium for STEP. We then discuss some of the issues involved in designing an XML exchange mechanism for STEP and conclude with an update of SC4’s STEP/XML activities.

MayDayML Initiative — Emergency Data Exchange XML based Markup Language

MayDayML Initiative — Emergency Data Exchange XML based Markup Language

Millau: an encoding format for efficient representation and exchange of XML over the Web

XML is poised to take the World Wide Web to the next level of innovation. XML data, large or small, with or without associated schema, will be exchanged between increasing number of applications running on diverse devices. Efficient storage and transportation of such data is an important issue. We have designed a system called Millau for efficient encoding and streaming of XML structures. In this paper we describe the Millau algorithms for compression of XML structures and data. Millau compression algorithms, in addition to separating structure and text for compression, take advantage of the associated schema (if available) in compressing the structure. Millau also defines a programming model corresponding to XML DOM and SAX for XML APIs for Millau streams of XML documents. Our experiments have shown significant performance gains of our algorithms and APIs. We describe some of these results in this paper. We also describe some applications of XML-based remote procedure calls and client-server applications based on Millau that take advantage of the compression and streaming technology defined by the system.