An Onion of Documents and Metadata

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Matthew Kelleher ◽  
Albert J. Klein ◽  
James David Mason
Keyword(s):  
Shelf Life ◽  
National Security ◽  
Test Equipment ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
Output Data ◽  
Distant Future ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Xml Documents ◽  
Xml Publishing

When a product cannot be tested as a finished unit, its warranty, as it were, depends on extensive testing of its component parts and assemblies. The record for products of the Y-12 National Security Complex has for many years been in the form of lengthy paper documents. Recently we have begun a process to capture some of this information in XML documents. However, this is not simply another XML publishing project. Because our products have a potentially very long shelf life and we cannot foresee the computing environment in their distant future existence, we must take extraordinary measures to document not only the products themselves but also the environment in which the documentation has been prepared. Adding complexity to this documentation challenge is a parallel effort to capture the output data of test equipment and wrap it in XML. While this project is very much a work in progress, we can see that one major component of its possible success will be the coordination of complex metadata.

scholarly journals Expressiveness and complexity of XML publishing transducers

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenfei Fan ◽  
Floris Geerts ◽  
Frank Neven
Keyword(s):  
Xml Publishing

XML Publishing

2018 ◽  
pp. 4780-4784
Author(s):  
Zachary G. Ives
Keyword(s):  
Xml Publishing

XML Publishing

2009 ◽  
pp. 3613-3616
Author(s):  
Zachary Ives
Keyword(s):  
Xml Publishing

Semantic Profiling Using Indirection

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ari Nordström
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
Xml Documents ◽  
Abstraction Layer ◽  
Xml Publishing ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Text Content ◽  
Attribute Value

Profiling is an often-used XML publishing technique where nodes are marked as conditional according to a set of profiles, identified using attribute values as filtering conditions. When publishing, the nodes are only included if the publishing conditions match the publishing context. The profiles are sometimes also used as variables in text content, including the attribute value in the publication. While useful, these techniques have a number of problems. For example, if the attribute values need to be changed, the new values usually require converting any “live” legacy documentation to the new values, changing the schema, stylesheets, etc, and supporting both the old and new profiles will not be possible. This paper takes a look at profiling, some of the common problems and suggest ways to solve those problems. An abstraction layer solves this. The profile values are not used directly; instead they represent a specific “semantic profile”. The abstraction layer can be expressed using URNs that are matched to human-readable values when required. A different problem arises when handling XML documents with structures not in our control. The document might be from a third party and not be editable directly, or use incompatible profiling semantics. These documents can be profiled using out-of-line profiling, describing the conditions outside the document, for example, in an extended XLink linkbase listing the nodes and their profiles. XLink, as it turns out, is well suited for this.

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