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Making XML an Information Modeling Language

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Web Information Systems – WISE 2004 (WISE 2004)

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With the wide adoption of XML, the goal for XML has been expanded far beyond data representation and exchange over the Internet. However, XML is not an expressive language for information modeling. In this paper, we describe what is needed for an information modeling language. Then we discuss how to extend XML to make it suitable for information modeling.

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  1. School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6

    Mengchi Liu & Guoren Wang

  2. School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119260

    Tok Wang Ling

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  1. School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou

  2. Database Systems Research and Development Center, University of Florida, P.O. Box 116125, 470 CSE, 32601-6125, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Stanley Su

  3. INFOLAB, Dept. of Information Systems and Management, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

    Mike P. Papazoglou

  4. Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Faculty of IT, Ul. Koszykowa 86, 02-008, Warsaw, Poland

    Maria Elzbieta Orlowska

  5. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, OX11 0QX, Didcot, UK

    Keith Jeffery

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Liu, M., Wang, G., Ling, T.W. (2004). Making XML an Information Modeling Language. In: Zhou, X., Su, S., Papazoglou, M.P., Orlowska, M.E., Jeffery, K. (eds) Web Information Systems – WISE 2004. WISE 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3306. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30480-7_4

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