XML Pipeline Definition Language submitted to W3C(World Wide Web Consortium).

Propylon, the XML solutions and services company, today announced that a joint submission with some of the biggest names in global technology has been accepted by the World Wide Web Consortium, (W3C) (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-pipeline/).

Propylon, the XML solutions and services company, today announced that a joint submission with some of the biggest names in global technology has been accepted by the World Wide Web Consortium, (W3C) (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-pipeline/).

The XML Pipeline Definition Language Submission, is an XML vocabulary for describing the processing relationships between XML resources. The Pipeline Submission offers a concrete starting point for an open solution that can help to avoid vendor lock in.

The submission from W3C members Sun Microsystems, Propylon, Alis Technology, Arbortext, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu Ltd, Mark Up Technology, Oracle, SAP and Software AG, takes the name of XML Pipeline Definition Language and is another step in the evolution of XML and proves that pipeline architecture as a means of processing XML data, is paramount.

Speaking at the announcement, Propylon CEO, Paul Mc Keon commented, We are delighted to be part of such an important submission to the W3C. We have been staunch advocates of pipeline processing of structured documents for many years now and are delighted to see this paradigm move closer to centre stage"

Sean Mc Grath, CTO of Propylon, is no stranger to XML and he was part of the expert group at the W3C that defined XML in 1998. Sean is an industry recognised XML expert. The pipeline approach is commonplace in engineering disciplines such as chemical and electrical engineering" says Mc Grath. It allows infinitely complex processing to be achieved within a common processing framework of
manageable complexity. As the complexity of XML processing grows, the need for a pipelined approach to manage this complexity grows with it. The pipeline submission to the W3C is a watershed in the development of a common pipeline approach to XML processing"

The submission provides functionality that many participants of the W3C XML Processing Model Workshop identified as important for interoperability of applications. Currently, scripting" of multi-processing applications that operate on XML documents is done in a very ad-hoc manner and there is no way to exchange or document requirements on processing order.