Towards a Semantics for XML Markup

Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 119-126

  Renear, Allen ^a   Dubin, David ^a   Sperberg McQueen, C M ^b   Huitfeldt, Claus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Knowledge Representation; Markup; Semantics; SGML; XML

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MACHINE-READABLE FORM;

XML;

EID: 0141762511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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