BOX: Browsing objects in XML

BOX: Browsing objects in XML

The latest Internet markup languages support the representation of structured information and vector graphics. In this paper we describe how these languages can be used to publish software engineering diagrams on the Internet. We introduce BOX, a portable, distributed and interoperable approach to browsing UML models with off-the-shelf technology. Our approach to browsing UML models leverages X...

From Black-Box Learning Objects to Glass-Box Learning Objects

In the field of e-learning, a popular solution to make teaching material reusable is to represent it as learning object (LO). However, building better adaptive educational software also takes an explicit model of the learner’s cognitive process related to LOs. This paper presents a three layers model that explicitly connect the description of learners’ cognitive processes to LOs. The first laye...

On XML Objects

In todays web applications we face the problem that there is the world of HTML and XML on one side and the world of objects (primarily Java objects) on the other side. Programs generating XML and HTML, for example Java Servlets, either have to generate and analyze XML on a string-basis which is rather tedious or have to generate object structures in the document object model or in JAXB. This re...

Archiving Language Resource Objects in XML

Expressing Health Care Objects in XML

Information about patients is critical for delivery of high quality service, but this information currently exists in representations that make access difficult or impossible. A single point of care, such as a hospital or clinic, may draw patient information from distributed heterogeneous sources such as: laboratories, scheduling and billing systems, imaging archives, and many sources of paper ...