Interoperating XML-style of digital artifacts for information reuse

Aiming at providing user-friendly means for exchange of digital artifacts, this paper presents a language-generation mechanism that allows graphical data-encoding languages and schemas to be specified and automatically generated. The generated language environments can automatically verify the syntactical structure of any constructed digital artifacts and, when translation specifications are provided, automatically translate a source artifact expressed in one encoding language or schema to its equivalent in another language or schema.