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The XML web: a first study

Authors:

Laurent Mignet,

Denilson Barbosa,

Pierangelo VeltriAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '03: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web

Pages 500 - 510

https://doi.org/10.1145/775152.775223

Published: 20 May 2003 Publication History

Abstract

Although originally designed for large-scale electronic publishing, XML plays an increasingly important role in the exchange of data on the Web. In fact, it is expected that XML will become the lingua franca of the Web, eventually replacing HTML. Not surprisingly, there has been a great deal of interest on XML both in industry and in academia. Nevertheless, to date no comprehensive study on the XML Web (i.e., the subset of the Web made of XML documents only) nor on its contents has been made. This paper is the first attempt at describing the XML Web and the documents contained in it. Our results are drawn from a sample of a repository of the publicly available XML documents on the Web, consisting of about 200,000 documents. Our results show that, despite its short history, XML already permeates the Web, both in terms of generic domains and geographically. Also, our results about the contents of the XML Web provide valuable input for the design of algorithms, tools and systems that use XML in one form or another.

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WWW '03: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web

May 2003

772 pages

ISBN:1581136803

DOI:10.1145/775152

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Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA
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AT&T Labs -- Research, USA
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MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
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Google Inc., USA

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