Occurrences

Paper

../papers/02-04-06/02-04-06.html

Date of Presentation

Tuesday, 21 May

Time of Presentation

16.45

Presentation Level

In-The-Middle

Abstract

The adoption of the XML Schema Specification by the W3C makes it possible to create machine processible application profiles of formats other than XML. WebCGM is an application profile of the CGM standard which enables to deployment of CGM in the web environment. WebCGM is encoded as binary data and the syntax is much richer than can be expressed rigorously with XML DTD syntax. However, binary CGM can be translated into an XML instance but XML validation tools are not sufficient. By creating an XML Schema to describe the WebCGM profile the XML instance of CGM may be validated using the standard schema tools available, reducing the needs to use proprietary methods that work directly with the binary CGM.