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

fYear

2001

fDate

19-22 June 2001

Firstpage

111

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Interfaces, 2001. ITI 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on

ISSN

1330-1012

Print_ISBN

953-96769-3-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITI.2001.938006

Filename

938006