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International Workshop on Distributed Communities on the Web

DCW 2000: Distributed Communities on the Web pp 100–109Cite as

Multidimensional XML

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The Extensible Markup Language (XML) tends to become a widely accepted formalism for the representation and exchange of data over the Web. A problem that often arises in practice is the representation in XML of data that are context-dependent (for example, information that exists in many different languages, in many degrees of detail, and so on). In this paper we propose an extension of XML, namely MXML or Multidimensional XML, which can be used in order to alleviate the problem of representing such context-dependent (or multidimensional) data. Apart from its usefulness in the semistructured data domain, MXML also reveals some new and promising research directions in the area of multidimensional languages.

This work has been partially supported by the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology under the project “Executable Intensional Languages and Intelligent Applications in Multimedia, Hypermedia and Virtual Reality” of ∏ENEΔ’99, contract no 99EΔ265.

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  1. Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, National Centre for Scientific Research (N.C.S.R.) ‘Demokritos’, 153 10 Aghia Paraskevi Attikis, Greece

    Yannis Stavrakas & Manolis Gergatsoulis

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, P.O. Box 1186, GR45110, Ioannina, Greece

    Panos Rondogiannis

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Peter G. Kropf

  2. Department of Computer Science, Laval University, 3908 Adrien-Pouliot, Sainte-Foy, QC, G1K 7P4, Canada

    Gilbert Babin

  3. School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    John Plaice

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Rostock, 18051, Rostock, Germany

    Herwig Unger

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Stavrakas, Y., Gergatsoulis, M., Rondogiannis, P. (2000). Multidimensional XML. In: Kropf, P.G., Babin, G., Plaice, J., Unger, H. (eds) Distributed Communities on the Web. DCW 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45111-0_12

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