MathML/XML series — Glossary of some XML formats

XML and Scientific File Formats

For many years, scientific data has been stored and transferred using a variety of data formats. In recent years XML has become an important and popular for exchanging digital information. At the most abstract level, XML can be used for any purpose that a binary format might be used, and vice versa. This paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of XML and binary formats, and speculates on t...

XML interchange formats for business process management

An Analysis of XML Binary Formats and Compression

XML simplifies data exchange amongst disparate computers, but is notoriously verbose and has spawned development of a variety of XML compressors and binary formats. Some formats allow streaming access to the data without complete decompression. We present an XML test file corpus, akin to corpora such as the Canterbury corpus and a combined efficiency metric integrating compression ratio and spe...

A Comparison of XML Interchange Formats for Business Process Modelling

This paper addresses heterogeneity of business process metamodels and related interchange formats. The different approaches towards interchange format design and effects of interchange format specification are presented first. In particular completeness is identified as an important design criterion for interchange formats. Afterwards the superset of metamodel concepts is extracted from 15 curr...

XML-Based Representation Formats of Local Grammars for the NL

The construction of local grammars for the exact recognition of each valid structure of a natural language is a very long term task which consumes huge amounts of human resources and produces huge amounts of data to be accumulated over the years. The use of convenient computer assisted grammar construction (CAGC) tools alleviates this task, but the representation format of the generated data mu...