DEVICE CONTROL SYSTEM EMPLOYING EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE FOR DEFINING INFORMATION RESOURCES

摘要

A device control system including at least one device operable by the system, at least one processor, software executing on the at least one processor for receiving message data and determining a corresponding XML document type, software executing on the at least one processor for generating a XML document based on the XML document type, the XML document including the message data, software executing on the processor for packetizing the XML document, and two or more communication components, each communication component including an XML parser for parsing the XML document and extracting the message data.