What are you doing with XML?

• An Interoperable Portal for the Historic Environment (http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/heirport/)

  • Web Portal for parallel searching on geographically distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous data sources

• Technology:

  • Z39.50 server talks to range of data sources
  • Web application based on Cocoon talks to Z39.50 server
  • XSP taglibs convert Z39.50 results to XML
  • XSLT transformations to output HTML / WAP / PDF etc.

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