Xml Applications and technologies

Group members:

Momina Amjad

Nabahat Tahir

Hafsa Akram

Syeda Hina Batool

1.Wireless Markup Language (WML), based

on XML, is a markup language intended for devices

that implements the Wireless Application Protocol

(WAP) specification, such as mobile phones.

Advantages:• It provides navigational support, data input,

hyperlinks, text and image presentation, and forms,

much like HTML (HyperText Markup Language).

• It preceded the use of other markup languages now

used with WAP, such as HTML itself, and XHTML

(which are gaining in popularity as processing

power in mobile devices increases).

2.XML News is a set of specifications for exchanging

news objects such as stories, images, or audio clips in a

standard format across different applications and

operating systems.

XMLNews uses Extensible Markup Language (XML)

and industry standards developed by the International

Press Telecommunications Council and the Newspaper

Association of America.

XMLNews has two parts: XMLNews-Story and

XMLNews-Meta.

XML News-Story is an XML document type for text-

based news and information. It defines the format of a

news story's content and is a subset of News Industry Text

Format (NITF), the XML document type definition (DTD)

designed to mark up and deliver news content in a variety

of ways, including print, wireless devices, and the Web.

XML News-Meta defines the format of any metadata

associated with a story (or any other kind of news

object) and is based on the World Wide Web

Consortium's Resource Description Framework (RDF).

3.The Channel Definition Format (CDF) is a file

format from Microsoft that lets you create a file that

defines a Web "channel," which is a preselected Web site

or group of related Web sites.

To use the channel, a user needs to have the Microsoft

Internet Explorer 4 or later browser.

Advantages:

The CDF file identifies the Web page and subpages that

the user sees after selecting a channel on the browser.

The file may also identify subpages that may be selected

from the main channel page. A channel developer for a

Web site puts the CDF file on the Web server. A user

who clicks on a channel (for example, from the Internet

Explorer channel menu bar) is actually specifying the

Uniform Resource Locator or Internet file name of the

Channel Definition File that defines the channel.

The Channel Definition Format is an application of

Extensible Markup Langugage (XML) that

Microsoft is proposing as a standard way to describe

a Web site channel. In Internet Explorer 5, the

channel user implementation has been changed. The

Channel Bar that formerly appeared automatically

when Windows was started has been removed.

Channels are now accessed as a special folder in the

Favorites menu.

4.Open Software distribution(OSD)

OSD, an application of the extensible Markup Language

(XML), is a vocabulary used for describing software

packages and their dependencies for heterogeneous

clients.

Advantages:

OSD is useful in automated software

distribution environments.

5.Open Financial Exchange (OFX)

It is a data-stream format for exchanging financial

information that evolved from Microsoft's Open

Financial Connectivity (OFC) and Intuit's Open

Exchange file formats

Advantages:

Open Financial Exchange is the solution to the financial services

industry’s need for a simplified way to exchange electronic financial

data with consumers and small businesses.

The open, unified specification for the exchange of financial data

over the Internet defines a common way for financial institutions

and their customers to communicate electronically.

The result is that Open Financial Exchange has helped accelerate

the adoption of online financial services and enabled financial

institutions to offer their customers safe, secure banking, bill pay,

investments and other services over the Internet.

6.RDF/XML is a syntax, defined by the W3C, to express (i.e. serialize) an RDFgraph as an XML document.

RDF/XML is sometimes misleading called simply RDF because it was introduced among the other W3C specifications defining RDF and it was historically the first W3C standard RDF serialization format.

Although the RDF/XML format is still in use, other RDF serializations are now preferred by many RDF users, both because they are more human-friendly, and because some RDF graphs are not representable in RDF/XML due to restrictions on the syntax of XML QNames.

Advantages:

The RDF model is made up of triples: as such, it can be efficiently implemented and stored; other models requiring variable-length fields would require a more cumbersome implementation.

The RDF model is essentially the canonicalization of a (directed) graph, and so as such has all the advantages (and generality) of structuring information using graphs

The basic RDF model can be processed even in absence of more detailed information (an "RDF schema") on the semantics: it already allows basic inferences to take place, since it can be logically seen as a fact basis

7.Mathematical Markup Language

(MathML)It is an application of XML for describing mathematical

notations and capturing both its structure and content.

Advantages:

It aims at integrating mathematical formulae into

World Wide Web pages and other documents.

It is a recommendation of the W3C math working group

and part of HTML5.

8.Platform for Privacy Preferences

Project(P3P)The (P3P) is a protocol allowing websites to declare their intended use of information they collect about web browserusers.

Advantages:

Designed to give users more control of their personal information when browsing.

P3P was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) and officially recommended on April 16, 2002.

Development ceased shortly thereafter and there have been very few implementations of P3P.

Microsoft Internet Explorer is the only major browser to support P3P.

The president of TRUSTe has stated that P3P has not been implemented widely due to the difficulty and lack of value.

9.Human Resource Management

Markup Language(HRMML) HRMML is an XML-based markup language for job

postings, job descriptions, and resumes.

HRMML currently is described in two draft Document

Type Definitions (DTDs), one for resumes and one for

job postings.

The two DTDs have many common elements, which are

contained in shared modules

10.VXML (Voice Extensible Markup Language)

VXML is a technology from Motorola for creating a voice dialog with a Web

site in which a user can call a Web site by phone and interact with it

through speech recognition and Web site responses.

VXML (TM) allows a developer to create a script of the conversation a

user can have with an application program run by a Web server.

The user calling in is connected to a client program called a voice browser.

The voice browser in turn passes requests on to the Web server.

The markup defined in VXML is consistent with the Extensible Markup

Language (XML), the strategic data definition language for the Internet.

Using VXML is intended to be no more difficult than writing a Web page

using the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

Advantages:

Motorola is providing VXML as an open interface and potential

developers can download the development kit from Motorola's Web site.

Motorola has already provided the technology to some early product

developers, including The Weather Channel.

Typical applications might include delivering weather information, flight

information, and sports scores, as well as online product and service

ordering.

How the User Uses VXML

The user would identify a Web site that offered phone interaction. For example, some e-

tailing sites might allow users to order from the Web site by phone instead of by filling

out a form.

The company with the Web site would publish a phone number to call for their Web

site.

The user would call the number on a regular phone. (Initially, - that is, making the

phone connection through the Internet itself - is not supported.)

The user would get connected to a voice browser at the Web site.

When connected, the user would hear a recorded voice that invited the user to

interact with the Web site - for example, to place an order or choose some other

option.

As the user responded, the selected responses could trigger requests from the voice

browser to a Web server application. The Web server might also send back new Web

pages to the user's computer - for example, pictures of catalogue items and order

confirmations.

The user and the VML application would interact until the transaction was

completed. Then the user would hang up, ending the session.

11.Vector Markup Language

(VML)

Vector Markup Language (VML) is an

XML-based language that facilitates the

use of vector graphics on the Internet,

especially on Web sites.

VML was proposed to the World Wide

Web Consortium (W3C) as a standard for

vector graphics rendering by Microsoft,

Autodesk, Macromedia and Visio in 1998.

Advantages:

Description of images in vector

format.

Resolution Independent

Smaller in Size

Faster Speed

12.Scalable Vector Graphics

(SVG)

It is an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics with support for interactivity and animation.

The SVG specification is an open standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1999.

Advantages: Resolution Independent

Reducing HTTP Request

Styling and Scripting

Can be animated and Edited

Smaller File Size

13.Synchronized Multimedia

Integration Language (SMIL)SMIL is a World Wide Web Consortium recommended

Extensible Markup Language (XML) markup language

to describe multimedia presentations. It defines markup

for timing, layout, animations, visual transitions, and

media embedding, among other things.

Advantages:

SMIL allows presenting media items such as text,

images, video, audio, links to other SMIL presentations,

and files from multiple web servers.

SMIL markup is written in XML, and has similarities to

HTML.

14.Three dimensional mark up

language(3DML)3DML is a format for creating three-dimensional websites build up by

combining similar sized building blocks.

It was invented in 1997 by Michael Powers and developed further by the

Flatland team over the next four years.

The 3DML format has been popularized more recently in the blockbuster

game called Minecraft.

Advantages:

3DML files are written in an XML syntax which can be delivered from

standard web servers and shown within a browser plugin and independent

3DML browser called Flatland Rover.

3dml is designed for non-programmers

3dml allows cross-toolkit development

It proposes the integration of any of such formats: VRML, 3DS, OBJ, etc

3dml allows reuse of elements

3dml proposes a common way to represent 3D interaction techniques with

three main purposes: execution, understanding, and data consolidation.