Mapping XML-Documents into Object-Model

In the field of technical documentation there are currently a lot of XML-based documentations that exist or are under development. Some of them are based on DTDs or XMLSchemas that define the structure of XML documents of a special document type, the majority of them don’t. Whereas in the context of webpublishing ontologies have increased as a very useful and powerful method towards a more effective machine processing of existing files, in the field of technical documentation ontologies respectively formal representation languages like F-logic are not used at the time. Our approach uses a simple mapping method to derive object-models from XML-files to access sets of distributed XML documents on a conceptual level, that allows further-on processing in a formal represented language like they are used for ontologies.