Schemas, Infosets and Objects: The Web Architecture of the Future Starts Today
by Henry S. Thompson

Table of contents

• Schemas, Infosets and Objects:
• XML is ASCII for the 21st century
• The original take on markup
• The alternative XML take on markup
• Application data
• Structured markup
• What just happened!?
• The new challenge
• What’s the Infoset?
• What does it mean to be ‘abstract’?
• What the Infoset isn’t
• Infoset details
• Objects, Models and Reflection
• Syntax, Semantics and the Connections between them
• Re-describing the Infoset and the infoset and the application
• The Infoset Revolution
• The Infoset Pipeline begins
• The XML Schema comes next
• The Schema and the Infoset
• The Infoset grows
• The Infoset is transformed
• The Infoset is composed
• The Infoset is accessed
• The Infoset is transmitted
• A big step forward
• Schemas at the heart
• Types and the Infoset
• Mapping between layers
• Mapping between layers 2
• Normal Forms as the basis for specifying mappings
• Example of normal-form-based mapping
• What XML has not solved
• XML and Web Services
• What is the metadata problem
• Requirements for metadata
• Some choices for Web Services
• XML Schema: some details
• A simple example
• What is RDF?
• Aside: Who is the W3C?
• RDF Model and Syntax
• A simple RDF example
• What RDF is not
• Overall Conclusion