Introduction to the Extensible Security Document Language

The Extensible Security Document Language is an open specification, platform independent markup language developed in the markup language toolkit known as XML. This custom markup language is constructed and defined solely for the purpose of modeling information security oriented data. This data is housed in a self-describing vocabulary to accomodate specific requirements set forth in the language specification. This specification is currently under development and will not be released to the general public until a complete project management process has been constructed. The requirements that are utilized as input into the project management process are defined in the Strategic Plan. +

The XSDL markup language has both advantages and disadvantages. The following is a short summary of some of the more prevalent of both:

xsdl advantages

• The XSDL markup language is a comprehensive set of elements yet may be altered according to environmental requirements.

• The XSDL markup language is open source.

• The XSDL markup language represents data descriptions and data relationships.

• Presentation rules are abstracted from the data structure.

• The XSDL markup language is a self-describing vocabulary.

xsdl disadvantages

• The XSDL markup language is very verbose.

• Utilization of the XSDL markup language requires absorption of a new syntax.

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