JSE_V2_N4_A3 D. Balasubramanian R. Boopathy V. Jeyabalaraja S. Thirumal Journal on Software Engineering 2230 – 7168 2 4 13 25 Pipelining, Semantic Web, Web Services, XML, Functional programming A paradigm for uniting the diverse strands of XML-based Web technologies by allowing them to be in-corporated within a single document. This overcomes the distinction between programs and data to make XML truly self-describing.” A proposal for a lightweight yet power- ful functional XML vocabulary called \Semantic f XML” is detailed, based on the well-understood functional program-ming paradigm and resembling the embedding of Lisp di-rectly in XML. Infosets are made \dynamic,” since docu-ments can now directly embed local processes or Web Ser-vices into their Infoset. An optional typing regime for info-sets is provided by Semantic Web ontologies. By regarding Web Services as functions and the Semantic Web as pro-viding types, and tying it all together within a single XML vocabulary, the Web can compute. In this light, the real Web 2.0 can be considered the transformation of the Web from a universal information space to a universal computation space. April - June 2008 Copyright © 2008 i-manager publications. All rights reserved. i-manager Publications http://www.imanagerpublications.com/Article.aspx?ArticleId=492