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M.Sc. of Advanced Software Engineering?CO7206System Reengineering XML AST Many Slides are by Georgios Koutsoukos Objectives To give some knowledge about core technologies used in CARE This lecture covers: XML AST Outline What is XML How can XML be used The importance of XML and its use in CARE What is an AST AST example and its importance in CARE Related Readings Al-Ekram Kontogiannis, An XML-based Framework for Language Neutral Program Representation and Generic AnalysisAvailable at: http://swag.uwaterloo.ca/~rekram/publications/csmr2005--xml-based-framework-for-language-neutral-program-representation-and-analysis.pdf Useful links: /xml/default.asp /quickref/XMLquickref.pdf What is XML XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language XML is a markup language much like HTML XML is used to describe structured data XML data is stored in plain-text format i.e software and hardware-independent XML tags are not predifined. One must define its own tags. XML may use a Document Type Definition (DTD) or an XML Schema to describe the data XML Vs HTML XML and HTML were designed with different goals: XML was designed to describe data and to focus on what data is. HTML was designed to display data and to focus on how data looks. HTML tags are predifined How can XML be used XML can be used to: Separate data from its presentation Exchange data between incompatible systems Share data between different applications Store data In fact, currently XML is the de-facto standard in many software application areas such as Web content description, Web-Services and Communication Protocols (e.g SOAP) among many others. XML Syntax (1) XML Declaration contains: Version of the XML specification Character encoding of the document XML Tags must: Be case sensitive Start with letter or underscore Not contain whitespaces Have an end Tag XML Syntax (2) Element Declaration Elements must be properly nested All XML documents must have a root element Attribute Declaration Atributes provide me