• 1 January 1998
    • journal article
    • p. 725-9
Abstract
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a newly adopted Internet protocol for data interchange designed to bring the key features of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML; ISO 8879:1986)--extensibility, complex structures, and validation--to the World Wide Web. In this paper, we describe an architecture that uses XML to mediate between disparate client-server systems for structured reporting and decision support.