XML Integrated Environment for Service-Oriented Data Management

XML has emerged as a de facto standard for encoding and sharing data between various applications. As the XML content grows, the ability to handle schemaless XML documents becomes more critical as most XML documents do not have schema or Document Type Definitions (DTDs). In addition, XML content and XML tools are often required to be combined in effective ways for better performance and higher flexibility. In this paper, we propose XML Integrated Environment (XIE) which is a general-purpose service-oriented architecture for processing XML documents in a scalable and efficient fashion. XIE supports a new software service model that provides a proper abstraction to describe a service and divide it into four components: structure, connection, interface and logic. We also propose and implement XIE Service Language (XIESL) that can capture the creation and maintenance of the XML processes and the data flow which is specified by the user and then orchestrate the interactions between different XIE services. XIESL manages the complexity of XML processing by implementing an XML processing pipeline that enables better management, control, interpretation and presentation of the XML data even for non-professional users.