Conclusions from Part II in ceXML - an XML vocabulary for building and civil engineering: the building stones: XML and other initiatives

The Internet is a good medium for communication. Access is cheap, generic tools (like browsers) are freely available, almost everybody can use it. XML is an Internet technology that provides the possibility to use a vocabulary to tag information with nametags, giving meaning to the text that is communicated.

The three most important influences on ceXML are:

• Clearly ebXML has got the appropriate context mechanism, the distinction between generic and specific information and the idea to use specified business processes as a tool to handle all the data.

• GEN provides ideas for a good user interface and provokes thoughts on how to exchange information with existing systems.

• LexiCon's influence is the way the vocabulary should look like.