XML how-to: First of all, never cross your authors
By Patricia Daukantas
GCN Staff
Agencies that don’t already have an Extensible Markup Language evangelist should get one, advises Brand L. Niemann.
Why? Because the person tapped for the job can act as a guide to the burgeoning technology, said Niemann, an Environmental Protection Agency computer scientist and member of the CIO Council’s Emerging Technology Subcommittee.
Niemann also has headed the CIO Council’s XML Web Services Working Group through its existence. The effort has morphed into a series of quarterly government conferences on software component technology.
“The quicker we can define XML schemas and make them available to vendors to put into applications, the better we’ll all be,” said Owen Ambur, a Fish and Wildlife Service systems analyst and co-chairman of the CIO Council’s XML Working Group.
Agencies need three levels of applications for XML documents, Niemann said.
The first type lets users create documents without any kind of tagging. The second requires minimal tagging. The third includes advanced features for application developers and programmers. . . ."
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