If [computer networking] were a traditional science, Berners-Lee would win a
Nobel Prize," Eric Schmidt, CEO of Novell, once commented. Indeed, Tim
Berners-Lee revolutionized the world when he created the Web in 1991. Now, he
is talking about the second generation of the Web, and his talks are
generating buzz...the W3C is establishing standards for it, and universities,
companies, and industry consortiums are building the technologies necessary
for it. He refers to it as the Semantic Web.
The Semantic Web is envisaged as a place where data can be shared and
processed by automated tools as well as by people. The key lies in the
automation and integration of processes through machine-readable languages.
In order to leverage and link the vast amounts of information available on
the Web, software agents must be able to comprehend the information, i.e.,
the data must be... (more)
XML Schemas provide the grammar and constraints of XML documents. Given the
increasing prevalence of XML as a data and command transport format in
enterprise software systems across industries, it's important to have a
methodology when designing the structure of the XML you will create.
In this article, I will discuss how to leverage established object-oriented
frameworks to design XML Schemas. The three tenets of object-oriented design
- encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism - are examined along with
emerging design patterns and when to apply them. Since industry consortia... (more)
MathML is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard that has been created so
that mathematical expressions can be displayed, manipulated, and shared over
the Web. According to the W3C, "The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics
to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has
enabled this functionality for text."
The MathML API can be found at the W3C Web site (www.w3.org). It has been
designed as an XML application and provides two main sets of tags: one for
the visual presentation of mathematics and the other for the content in
equations. The W3... (more)
Industry consortia are increasingly coming together to draw up XML standards
for businesses.
One of the major emerging standards is XBRL: eXtensible Business Reporting
Language. Organized by more than 170 finance, accounting, regulatory, and
software companies from across the world, XBRL is emerging as the definitive
standard for expressing business information contained in corporate
documents. With XBRL, each piece of a company's reported information is
represented in XML and can be searched and extracted depending on business
requirements. Given that more than 80% of major U.S... (more)
The financial services industry spends billions of dollars on IT development
to maintain its competitive edge. Banks, risk management firms, and insurance
companies have been focusing on XML as a means to exchange their data and to
streamline the trading, settlement, and risk management processes. In light
of such goals, industry consortiums have been signaling their commitment to
XML by creating XML standards for data exchange.
This article will discuss the application of XML in building a risk
management system. Topics covered include FpML (Financial products Markup
Language),... (more)
Ayesha Malik is a Senior Consultant of Object Machines, a software engineering firm providing Java technology and XML solutions to businesses. Ayesha has worked extensively on large XML and messaging systems for companies such as Deutsche Bank and American International Group (AIG). Most recently, she has been researching new ways to make schemas extensible and object-oriented.
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