Mapping of the robot scene using extensible markup language

The paper shows the example of using Extensible Markup Language (XML) coding for mapping of the industrial robot scene. Due to its popularity, the XML is recognized by many engineering applications and, because it uses a text format, it could be easily interpreted and converted to other format. The human readable form is another advantage of the XML, so in simple cases it is enough to read the listing to understand the substance. The XML documents could be also processed by using so called XML Style Sheets (XLS), what simplifies machine decoding and translating. In this manner, we can map the robot’s environment using XML notation in the similar way as the terrain mapping.