Design of a Schema-Driven Environment for Facilitating Application of Construction Information Standards

This paper presents the design of an XML schema-driven, tool-building environment, named XsEnvironment, to facilitate application of construction information standards. XsEnvironment is designed to take an XML Schema of a construction information standard, as input information, and then automatically build the corresponding form-based XML information processing applications, which may include XML information editor, database, and Web Services components. The information processed by the applications created in XsEnvironment can be saved into a valid XML file or a database. Furthermore, the information can be shared and exchanged through the web services provided by the XsEnvironment application tools.