Basic HTML version of Foils prepared August 16 99

Foil 21 XML and the Front End

From Overview of Gateway Project DoD MetaSystems Workshop Charlottesville Va. -- August 11-13 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Bill asbury, Ken Flurchick, Tom Haupt


The front end is some document consisting of a mix of HTML or XML
  • The HTML is whatever you want to make a nice page
  • The XML is converted into some variant of HTML by
    • Browser default or
    • XSL style sheet
    • User Program -- logically in middle tier
  • Note HTML can include Java applets either directly or invoked from XSL style sheets
We supply suitable XML widgets which PSE designer puts together in different ways for different PSE's
XML can be rendered for PC's or Palmtops or ....



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