Generation of role-specific information for an enterprise integration framework using XML descriptions

Enterprise integration is one of the most important tasks in modern automation and control solutions. For effective applications at enterprise level, specific interfaces and description models have to be defined. Considering these enterprise applications playing each a specific use case, a role, to the underlying automation and control system, role-specific descriptions with special semantics and syntax have to be generated. These descriptions represent specific views of a general system's information set. To keep them consistent and easy to create, new methods for their handling have to be introduced. This paper shows a concept for generating role-specific descriptions based on XML.