Subject: Re: XML and GILS
Philip Coombs (pcoombs@wln.com)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 13:47:11 -0800
Message-Id: <351ACCDF.111E@wln.com> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 13:47:11 -0800 From: Philip Coombs <pcoombs@wln.com> To: gils@cni.org Subject: Re: XML and GILS References: <199803261413.IAA23534@multi28.netcomi.com>
Mark Kelly <mark@markkelly.com> wrote:
>
> Eliot (and anyone else),
>
> I'm out in Seattle at an XML conference. Microsoft, Netscape and Sun
> have all said that the se XML as the way to handle structured data on
> the Web.
>
> A new W3C submission <see
> http://www.microsoft.com/standards/xml/xmldata-f.htm> called XML-Data is
> being proposed as way of getting any information from any data source to
> any client - browsers, applications or applets.
>
> I'm not sure if you mentioned this before, but this is clearly an area
> in which the GILS (and Z39.50) world should be taking an interest.
> Although this is still in formative stages GILS certainly doesn't want
> to be caught unawares if this thing takes off.
To the GILS newsgroup:
Washington State's GILS (http://wagils.wln.com/) has been following the
evolution of embedded structured data in Web documents. It presently
employs attributes from the GILS schema as metatags in HTML (and other)
documents for spidering by our database robots. According to a recent
report prepared for us by the Gartner Group, Washington State's approach
has uniquely positioned this GILS site for relatively painless
transition to XML. Their only advice is for us to migrate from HTML
metatag to XML metatag syntax in the next year. We would be happy to
discuss our process with interested parties.
-- Philip Coombs, Project Manager Washington State's Government Information Locator Service pcoombs@wln.com (360) 704-5273 try our locator service at: http://wagils.wln.com/
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