Computer software for providing access to, or manipulation capabilities of, XML documents, specifically storing and retrieving XML documents in databases, files, repositories, web services, or online services, editing the contents of XML documents, transforming the contents of xml documents through style sheets, defining the content models for XML documents in a schema or other definition document, validating XML documents against their schemas, providing data exchange functions between XML d...

COMPUTER APPLICATION SYSTEM WHICH COMBINES STORED REPOSITORIES OF METADATA DOCUMENTS REPRESENTING THE POSSIBLE STATES OF A COMPUTER PROGRAM WITH CORRESPONDING AGENTS WHICH PROCESS THESE METADATA DOCUMENTS TO EFFECT A MECHANISM FOR THE EXECUTION CONTROL OF SOFTWARE ON EITHER LOCAL OR NETWORKED COMPUTERS