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Foil 17 Standards and XML II

From Collaborative Portals for Distributed and Distance Learning NCSA Industrial Partners Meeting -- October 12-13 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 So we need to agree on an "architecture" (such as that shown earlier) and decide where the "sweet spots" are to define standards
  • i.e. you do not agree on standards but do try to agree (or guess) what entities will have standards defined for them in the future
2 Then standards define interfaces to distributed educational `objects (methods and properties)
3 XML is useful as a flexible way of specifying object interfaces in a convenient user readable way supported by growing number of tools
  • Internet Explorer and Communicator 5 renders XML
  • Many Java libraries for processing XML

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