XML PLATFORM STANDARDS AND DATABASES
M.R. Kogalovsky
Market Economy Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, 117418
Nakhimov Prospect, 47
Russia
e-mail: kogalov@cemi.rssi.ru
The paper is dedicated to analysis of the emerging XML technological platform foundation and functionality. The new platform is based on XML standard and intends to be a basis of second Web generation and means for heterogeneous information resources integration. The reasons of transition to XML technologies, the essence of radical Web changes, as well as XML platform organization and basic principles are discussed. The roles, classification, interrelationships of XML platform standards and their developing status are described. We consider also the approaches used to metadata representation and languages for the XML-document semantics description. Important and actual application domains of XML platform are presented. We discuss also the issues of the database and XML technologies convergence and mutual influence.