DMware /XMLware

You've reached DMware/XMLware, a section of the development site for AIIM's Document Management Interoperability Exchange.  This is the place to discover

• What is XMLware?
• How is the XMLware compilation proposed to work?
• What XMLware is available and what does it take to get it?
• How can XMLware contributions be made?
• What XMLware projects are there?
• Where is there more information?

To provide organization, this section of the DMware site is also going to provide an XML deconstruction.  The organization will proceed as follows:

• text - the data stream itself and the context in which it is to be interpreted
• form - the structure of a well-formed XML document and what there is to do about that, especially with regard to the XML declaration and other materials.  Many of these will be treated in other section
• DTD - the validity of XML documents and how DTD works (we don't know where entities go yet, but probably here, because they tend to be of a piece with DTD, parameters, etc.)
• ref - the mechanisms for reference, including XPATH, XLINK, URI, maybe MIME types again
• NS - namespaces and the fundamentals of the namespace mechanism
• XSD - XML Schema Definition, how it builds on and fits with what is given before, etc.
• security - Including XML Digital Signature and Encryption
• XSL - maybe, although the foundation is pretty well established with the preceding section.  The progression through XSD and DSig is material to many other standards, whether or not XSL is involved.  
• More as needed, although we rapidly move to diagonal (e.g., CSS and XHTML) and then vertical applications.  We will review and determine where we think the best placement of seams happens to be.  As we move to levels where there is scripting and programming-language processing, there will be more to consider: DOM, SOAP, etc.

This web page, DMware/XMLware/index.htm, is part of the engineering, construction management, maintenance, and infrastructure for the DMware Development Site.  You are welcome to explore this and other construction-information pages.   You'll need your hard hat and safety shoes.

If you'd rather find out about DMware instead of admire the scaffolding, organization, and implementation of the site, go directly to the XMLware development section or to the overall DMware site.   If that doesn't work, come back later.  This section is blocked off whenever the construction crew is working in the vicinity. 

created 2001-04-30-20:32 -0700 (pdt) by
$$Author: Orcmid $
$$Date: 03-09-02 8:26 $
$$Revision: 6 $