Role of Emerging Technologies in Facilitating Integration of ATM Operations: A Look at One Example: XML Its Related Technologies

摘要

The authors present the business case for using the Extensible Markup Languagern(XML) and its related technologies (Document Type Definitions, Extensible StylesheetrnLanguage, XML Schemas, and XQuery to name just a few) in Federal Aviation Administrationrn(FAA) initiatives that involve fielding air traffic management (ATM) operational systems whichrnwill (or may) need to share information with other ATM operational systems. The growing usernof these technologies in a wide variety of aviation related applications, several of which arernnoted in this paper, as well as the growth in the range, robustness, and availability of therntechnologies themselves lead the authors to recommend that FAA give explicit consideration tornusing XML to facilitate fielding interoperable ATM applications.