ConsuML

Revision as of 22:03, 12 March 2004 by 142.177.103.244 (talk) (we must call this Consumption Markup Language, not "Consumerium" - we want many people cooperating on a STANDARD, not a name that encourages forks over minor squibbles with US)

ConsuML is the project name for developing XML grammar on Sourceforge.

ConsuML stands for Consumption Markup Language.

ConsuML is licensed under GNU GPL.


Current (short) description:

The goal of ConsuML development is to produce an XML tag schema that can be used to markup information within The Consumerium Exchange and Backend Information for generating stub articles to the Content Wiki on-demand.

This information includes (very incomplete):

ConsuML is not the top development priority. Instead the focus is on the Content Wiki


Old description:

Consumerium is a not-for-profit project, developed under GFDL license, to develop free software and infrastructure for storage, transport and display of product information to consumers and feedback to the producers to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible in the future.

The goal of ConsuML development is to produce an XML tag schema that can be used to markup information about

for use in the Consumerium-project and other applicable Point of Sale applications paying special attention to maintaining the historical data so that when the current data is changed the historical state is preserved for retrospection and

  • XSLT-transformations to facilitate data-interchange with other information systems or languages used to express similar or related information, such as ebXML and IXRetail