XML for Information

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XML for Information Application Integration

• Presentation to XML WG Meeting January 17th
• Brand Niemann, EPA
• Bill Donellan, NextPage

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Overview

• Background
• FedStats.Gov
• FedStats.Net
• Key New XML-Based Standards
• Demonstration
• NextPages NXT 3 Content Network Platform
• Questions and Answers

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Background

• OMB created and chairs the Interagency Council on
  Statistical Policy (ICSP)
• ICSP created the FedStats Task Force with a
  mandate to create a one-stop Web portal for
  Federal statistics (http//www.fedstats.gov/)
• The ICSP the Digital Government Consortium
  (DGC) created the FedStats.Net Collaborative Site
  (http//www.fedstats.net/index.htm) to
• be a testbed for new information products
• provide integrated information services
• provide tools for collaborative work

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FedStats.Gov

• FedStats Task Force meets monthly to discuss the
  Web site and the work of its teams.
• BLS provides periodic usability testing.
• New Products Concepts Team has produced MapStats
  features (Yahoo Life Incredibly Useful Site of
  the Day Award).
• Vice President Gore's Hammer Award to teams of
  federal employees and their partners whose work
  resulted in a government that works better and
  costs less.
• Strategic Planning for FY2001 starts in February.

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FedStats.Net

• Key new XML-based standards
• Content Network Protocol (CNP)
• eXtensible Indexing Language (XIL)
• Integrating
• Statistical Data Links, Reports, and Databases
• Metadata (ISO 11179, Census CMR/DER, etc.)
• Applications (NXT 3, LandView, FileMaker,
  StatServer, MS SQL Server, DGC Grantees, etc.)
• Tour (http//www.fedstats.net/index.htm)

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Key New XML-Based Standards

• Presented at the XML 2000 Conference by NextPage
  Staff
• Lee Gibbons, Director of Product Management, The
  Content Network Maximizing Your Ability to
  Access, Manage and Exchange Content
• Bennett Cookson, Senior Architect, Indexsheets
  The eXtensible Indexing Language (XIL)
• Note XML 2000 Conference PowerPoint Slides and
  Audio available at www.ConferenceNetwork.com
  (free to conference attendees and small fee for
  non-attendees)

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Content Network Protocol

• Looked at other schemas and implementations (e.g.
  ebXML, BizTalk, SOAP, etc.) but needed to develop
  own to support P2P Content Network.
• XML messages between servers for integrated table
  of contents and searching
• Allows requests to be simultaneously distributed
  to all the servers in a content network.
• Allows the responses to be aggregated, ordered,
  and presented as if coming from one server.
• Supports secure, access controlled exchange of
  content.

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eXtensible Indexing Language

• Leverages W3C XSLT/XPath Standard. The ability of
  XIL to separate search fields and table of
  contents structure from specific elements plays
  an important role in bringing the sites together
  into one.
• Why not simply index all the text and elements
  and search for a term within a specific element?
• The contents of element types are different,
  which is why they are marked up in the first
  place.

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XIL Example

• Indexsheets eXtensible Indexing Language
• A rule-based mechanism that looks for a
  particular tag within the document and assigns
  the content within the opening and closing tag to
  a particular field which is fully searchable
  (e.g. index author names in a field called
  Author Name). Also can be used to present
  user-unfriendly tags in a more easily understood
  language.
• lt!--Indexsheet rule --gt
• ltxsltemplate matchauthorgt
• ltlpindex fieldAuthor Namegt
• ltxslprocess-children/gt
• ltlpindexgt
• ltxsltemplategt
• ....
• lt!--XML Data--gt
• ltauthorgtStephen Kinglt/authorgt

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Demonstration

• FileMaker Pro (database for LandView IV on DVD
  and now the Web!)
• NXT 3
• StatServer (Support for XML in 3rd Quarter
  Release)

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XML in FileMaker Pro
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NXT 3 Interface for FedStats.Net
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NXT 3 XHitlist for CIA Country Profiles
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NXT 3 Database Adapter for EPA EDR
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XML-ization of the EPA EDR
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StatServer Upload a data file and choose which
columns to submit for analysis
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NextPage NXT 3

• Web Platform Evolution
• The Content Network
• NXT3 Platform
• Server Architecture Overview
• Uses of XML
• For More Information

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Web Platform Evolution
Content Networking
E-business Infrastructure
Content Management
Document Management
Content Networking
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The Content Network
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NXT3 Platform
NextPage RapidApps
Partner Applications
NextPage Applications
Publisher 3
NXT 3 Applications
NextPage Application Framework
NXT 3 Content Server
NXT 3 Content Syndication
NXT 3 Content Adapters
NXT 3 Search Engine
NXT 3 Security Services
NXT 3 e-Content Platform
Component Integration (COM, HTTP, C, XML, ODBC,
Java)
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Server Architecture Overview
Browser
HTTP Server
Scripted Components
Router (Executive)
AccessControl
Components Layer
DataComponent
DisplayComponent
CommandComponent
NotificationComponent
Services Layer
DatabaseServices
WorkflowServices
Search andNavigation
AdministrationServices
OtherServices
Systems Layer
RelationalDatabases
E-mailCalendar
ContentServer
ConfigurationDatabases
Other ExternalSystems
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Uses of XML

• XML Tags for Fields
• Index Native XML Files
• Style Sheet for Presentation Control and
  Customization and Personalization (XSL and
  Display Filters)
• Navigation and Searching of Both Structured and
  Unstructured Data
• Integration of Content and Searching Across
  Multiple Servers (CNP and XIL)

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For More Information

• NextPage Web Site
• http//www.nextpage.com/nextpage.asp
• NextPage Product Demos
• http//www.nextpage.com/products/nxt3/econtent/eco
  ntent_home.asp
• NextPage Tool Box
• http//www.nextpage.com/services/techsupport/toolb
  ox.html

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Questions and Answers

• Your turn to talk or contact us
• Brand Niemann, 202-260-2510, niemann.brand_at_epa.gov
  
• Bill Donellan, 301-570-6153, bill.donellan_at_nextpag
  e.com