Journal of Educational Media and Library Sciences


Vol. 39 No. 2 , Pages 145 - 160 , 2001

Design of XML-Based Internet Data Interchange Prototype System (Article written in chinese)

Sinn-cheng LIN & Yong-ren CHEN

Abstract

This paper proposes a data interchange prototype system based on the XML technologies. After XML was completed by W3C, no matter in the fields of academic research or in the fields of industry application, many relational topics on XML had been studied. Nowadays, besides of XML’s development, people also starting to try to put XML into practice. The purpose of this paper is to develop an XML-based data interchange prototype system on Internet, and to prove the excellence capability of XML on data interchange. The proposed architecture of the system has seven modules: (1) Data Searching Module, (2) XML Transforming Module, (3) Data Transferring Module, (4) XML Parsing Module, (5) XML Data Presentation Module, (6) Data Storage Module, and (7) Metadata Transforming Module. They cooperate with each other and active as a data integrating system in the distributed environment. The experimental result shows the practicability of this prototype system. It will also be a foundation of studying XML-based Internet application in the future.

Keywords: Extensible markup language; Data interchange; Document object model

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