**DIR** -XML2 - unambiguous access to XML-based business documents in B2B e-commerce

ABSTRACT

XML-based vocabularies have become more and more popular in application-to-application exchanges. Like traditional EDI standards, XML-based formats require an additional agreement on rules to access XML-based data structures. It is our goal to define a machine-readable format for these agreements to accompany XML DTDs or schemas. We present our approach by using a simplified state machine to define access rules. The semantics of the state machine will be expressed by the means of XML itself to be stored in a registry.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces
          Subjects: Evaluation/methodology

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces
          Subjects: Web-based interaction; Theory and models

General Terms:
Languages, Standardization

Keywords:
B2B e-commerce, EDI, UN/EDIFACT, XML, ebXML, xCBL