Development of an extensible description language for virtual instrumentation

The goal of this paper is to describe the development of an extension, such as markup language based on XML standard, called VIML — Virtual Instruments Markup Language. Therefore, author proposes to extend the XML standard for use in the field of virtual instrumentation. The paper intends to present a framework for generating and managing virtual instrumentation for WWW applications. Characteristics, features and conclusions of VIML using are presented.