Using XML to Build Consistency Rules for Distributed Specifications
Andrea Zisman, Wolfgang Emmerich, Anthony Finkelsteiin · UCL Discovery (University College London) · 2000
The work presented in this paper is part of a large programme of research aimed at supporting consistency management of distributed documents on the World Wide Web. We describe an approach for specifying consistency rules for distributed partial specifications with overlapping contents. The approach is based on expressing consistency rules using XML and XPointer. We present a classification for different types of consistency rules, related to various types of inconsistencies and show how to express these consistency rules using our approach. We also briefly describe a rule editor to support the specification of the consistency rules. Keywords: Inconsistency, consistency rules, XML, XPointer. 1.# INTRODUCTION The size and complexity of industrial software systems require collaboration and co-ordination of physically distributed teams of people during systems development. Each person or group of people has their own perspective and understanding of the system. These different perspec...