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Two Methods for Schema Design for Intelligent XML Documents in Organizations

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XML markup language provides means for incorporating semantics, i.e. “meaning” of logical content parts residing within documents. Therefore it has become the lingua franca for Semantic Web, e-Business applications and for enterprise application integration. In order to realize novel, intelligent XML-based document applications in organizations, schemas defining the domain-oriented semantics are needed. So far, the potential of XML has not bee fully utilized in organizational documents, due to the lack of XML support in common and inexpensive office software. Due to the arrival of XML support on common software such as Microsoft Office 2007 and Open Office 2.0 organizations need knowledge about schema languages and their design methods for designing intelligend XML document applications for document content reuse, content integration across documents, and document content retrieval from Web Services and other source. This paper introduces three schema languages and compares the features of two potential methods for document-oriented schema design.