Invisible XML has had a long incubation process, but in the last year things have heated up. A W3C Community Group been formed, spec improved, and implementations released or are various stages of development. This paper gives an overview iXML its stable version 1.0 form, with discussion some design decisions that shaped it, accounts from implementors their practical experiences iXML.

nowadays, standardized metadata for geospatial data is a key in sharing and finding information on the web and crucial in building geospatial data infrastructure (gdi). the main objective of this paper was to develop a web-based metadata dissemination system for in-situ sensors based on, most importantly, interoperable, standard and open technologies introduced by open gis consortium (ogc), nam...