Standards and XML II
So we need to agree on an “architecture” 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
So assume that we are building education portals in terms of “Distributed Educational Objects” -- this is not really an assumption but a statement as to “language used”
Then standards define interfaces to objects (methods and properties)
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 5 renders XML
- Many Java libraries for processing XML