Title :
Representing time-dependent information in Multidimensional XML
Author :
Mitakos, Theodoros ; Gergatsoulis, Manolis ; Stavrakas, Yannis ; Ioannidis, Efstathios V.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Inf. & Telecommun., Nat. Centre for Sci. Res. Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi Attikis, Greece
Abstract :
Multidimensional XML (MXML) is an extension of XML that incorporates dimensions in order to represent in an elegant and concise way context-dependent data, that is, data which can exhibit different variations in value or structure (e.g. that can exist in different languages or various degrees of detail). We show that MXML dimensions can be used to express time and associate it with XML elements and attributes. We discuss the properties of the time domain and the features of MXML which are necessary in order to represent time, and give key points that motivate further investigation on the use of MXML for representing time-dependent data.
Keywords :
Internet; hypermedia markup languages; information resources; MXML; Multidimensional XML; World Wide Web; context-dependent data; temporal semistructured data; time-dependent information representation; Contracts; Informatics; Information technology; Multidimensional systems; World Wide Web; XML;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology Interfaces, 2001. ITI 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
953-96769-3-2
DOI :
10.1109/ITI.2001.938006
