A SEQUENCE-BASED TYPE-AWARE INTERFACE FOR XML PROCESSING

摘要

XML has recently made inroads into the data-oriented world of machine-to-machine interaction, most prominently in the form of SOAP and Web services. In this paper we present a new programming interface that views XML documents as sequences of events, and into which awareness of data typing is built in. These two features are intended to make the interface attractive for data-oriented applications that do not use XML internally. Our experience in using this interface in a mobile middleware system indicates that this sequentiality combined with type awareness and properly-layered higher-level interfaces provides a very natural way of handling XML for the data-oriented world.