SCXML
SCXML stands for State Chart XML: State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction. It is an XML-based markup language that provides a generic state-machine based execution environment based on Harel statecharts.
SCXML is able to describe complex state-machines. For example, it is possible to describe notations such as sub-states, parallel states, synchronization, or concurrency, in SCXML.
Goals
The objective of this standard is to genericize state diagram notations that are already used in other XML contexts. For example, it is expected that SCXML notations will replace the State machines notations used in the next CCXML 2.0 version (an XML standard designed to provide telephony support to VoiceXML). It could also be used as a multimodal control language in the Multimodal Interaction Activity.
One of the goals of this language is to make sure that the language is compatible with CCXML and that there is an easy path for existing CCXML scripts to be converted to SCXML without major changes to the programming model or document structure (for example, by using an XSL Transformation).
Podcasts:
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by Jonathan Coulton
Skymall
by: Jonathan CoultonO'Hare is nice this time of year
I check my bags, and find my
Seat and buy a beer
And settle in
Such is my life here on the road
Now my seatback is up, tray table stowed
And there's nothing to do
I gotta get myself through
So I am shopping at Skymall
That five-mile-high mall
That always has just what I need
When I get to the gate
And remember too late
I should've brought
Something to read
I'm OK...
'Cause I know that I'm gonna shop
Skymall!
I bought a pair of bonsai trees
I bought a big fake rock
Where I can hide my keys
From everyone
And I imagine what all my friends would say
To see this lovable Santa dance and sway
To my favorite songs
My favorite holiday songs
And I am shopping at Skymall
That five-mile-high mall
That always has just what I need
When I get to the gate and remember too late
I should've brought something to read
I'm OK... 'Cause I know that I'm gonna shop Skymall!
In Cleveland I bought a replica
Of the sword that was broken
And then somewhere above Detroit
Some 'successories' that say "Lead with vision"
I love you best when I'm away
And while I'm out here I look
Forward to the day When I come home.
'Cause there's something special waiting there
It's a whimsical statue of a bear
That holds a bottle of wine
But please don't touch it it's mine....
Because I bought it at Skymall
That five-mile-high mall
That always has just what I need
When I get to the gate and remember too late
I should've brought something to read