A Visual Language for XML

XML is becoming one of the most influential standards concerning data exchange and Web-presentations. In this paper we present a visual language for querying and transforming XML data. The language is based on a visual document metaphor and the notion of document patterns. It combines an intuitive, dynamic form-based interface for defining queries and transformation rules with powerful pattern matching capabilities and offers thus a highly expressive yet easy to use visual language. Providing visual language support for XML not only helps end users, it is also a big opportunity for the VL community to receive greater attention.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: VL
• Authors: Martin Erwig
• Keywords: Visual Document Metaphor, Visual Language, Visual Language Support, Visual Languages, VL 2000