International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 18-21, 2004 / Town & Country Resort, San Diego, California / This paper presents a new approach for the effective generation of translator scripts that can be used
to automate the translation of data display configurations from one vendor format to another. Our
approach uses the IDEF5 ontology description method to capture the ontology of each vendor format
and provides simple rules for performing mappings. In addition, the method includes the
specification of mappings between a language-specific ontology and its corresponding syntax
specification, that is, either an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) Schema or Document Type
Description (DTD). Finally, we provide an algorithm for automatically generating eXtensible
Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) scripts that transform XML documents from one
language to another. The method is implemented in a graphical tool called the Data Display
Translator Generator (DDTG) that supports both inter-language (ontology-to-ontology) and intra-language
(syntax-to-ontology) mappings and generates the XSLT scripts. The tool renders the XML
Schema or DTD as trees, provides intuitive, user-friendly interfaces for performing the mappings,
and provides a report of completed mappings. It also generates data type conversion code when both
the source and target syntaxes are XML Schema-based. Our approach has the advantage of
performing language mappings at an abstract, ontology level, and facilitates the mapping of tool
ontologies to a common domain ontology (in our case, Data Display Markup Language or DDML),
thereby eliminating the O(n^2) mapping problem that involves a number of data formats in the same
domain.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/605328 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Fernandes, Ronald, Graul, Michael, Meric, Burak, Jones, Charles H. |
| Contributors | Knowledge Based Systems, Inc., Edwards Air Force Base |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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