XML and Knowledge Management XML intellectual primitives will become a revolutionary discovery that is equivalent to the quantum found in physics, atoms found in chemistry, cells found in biology. XML will rewrite the software, computer system application history, and interacting human machines into a new stage.
The significance of XML is that it creates the structured expression of a text (or form), which can define the properties of each of the information elements. The expression of XML structured is constituted by different properties information elements, and the information element of different properties is constituted, and the information element of different properties corresponds to the quantum, the atomic structure in the atom, and the cell layer in the cell layer in the cell. XML makes information buildings with cornerstone, knowledge management has a microscopic mechanism, and software has basic standard parts. If the primitive of the knowledge is a standard format of XML expression, where the information element is a clear information of the structured granular definition, the free change of granular information is the foundation of XML, which is the XML replacement HTML to make breakthroughs s reason. This change enables XML to become a knowledge base, and HTML is just a page.
The XML form is the revolution of HTML, but its theoretical pioneer is Notes. Lotus founders exactly explore a textual knowledge unit, namely a NOTES, and a method of storage, filling, and calling. Because of this, Lotus Notes has decades in office software systems. The maximum difference between Notes and XML is that the knowledge unit of Notes processing is text, unstructured, non-granularly updatable. It is in this sense that XML is the revolution on the basis of Notes, and Notes can handle a large number of sheet-like knowledge, and XML will make all knowledge primitives and use in an orderly manner.
As a standard, XML will greatly improve the knowledge of knowledge. During the XML standardization process, management consultants will play an important role. Through the continuous progress and improvement of standardization work, it will greatly reduce the reproducibility of software engineers, enhance the application of human knowledge, especially the application level of management knowledge to a new stage. XML will become a standardized device for software buildings, while middleware is the components of the software building, and XML development will greatly speed up the development of software applications and the development of software development.
(This article is written by Mr. Wang Dulu, director of the Great Wall Enterprise Strategy Research Institute, March 14, 2002)
