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| name = State Chart XML

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| owner = [[World Wide Web Consortium]]

| genre = [[Markup language]]

| latest release version = 9th Public working draft1.0

| latest release date = AprSeptember 271, 20112015

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| url = [http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/ http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/]

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'''SCXML''' stands for State Chart XML: State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction. It is an [[XML]]-based [[markup language]] which provides a generic state-machine based execution environment based on [[Harel statechart]]s.

'''SCXML''' stands for State Chart XML: State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction. It is an [[XML]]-based [[markup language]] whichthat provides a generic [[state-machine ]]-based execution environment based on [[Harel statechart]]s.

SCXML is able to describe complex [[Finite state machine|state-machines]]. For example, it is possible to describe notations such as sub-states, parallel states, synchronization, or concurrency, in SCXML.

SCXML is able to describe complex [[Finite finite-state machine|state-machines]]s. For example, it is possible to describe notations such as sub-states, parallel states, synchronization, or concurrency, in SCXML.

==Goals==

The objective of this standard is to generifygenericize [[state diagramsdiagram]] notations whichthat are already used in other XML contexts. For example, it is expected that SCXML notations will replace the [[State diagram|State machines]] notations]] used in the next [[CCXML]] 2.0 version (an XML standard designed to provide [[telephony]] support to [[VXML|VoiceXML]]). It could also be used as a multimodal control language in the [[W3C MMI|Multimodal Interaction Activity]].

One of the goals of this language is to make sure that the language is compatible with CCXML and that there is an easy path for existing CCXML scripts to be converted to SCXML without major changes to the programming model or document structure (for example, by using an [[XSL Transformations|XSL Transformation]]).

The lastcurrent working draftversion of the specification was released by the W3C in AprilSeptember 20112015.<ref>{{cite web

| url=httphttps://www.w3.org/NewsTR/scxml/2011.html#entry-9078

| title=State Chart XML (SCXML): WorkingState DraftMachine PublishedNotation for Control Abstraction

| publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]

| date=2011-04-26 September 1, 2015

| accessdate=20112016-0503-2502}}</ref>

==ExamplesApplications==

According to the W3C SCXML specification,<ref>[http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/ State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction specification],</ref> SCXML is a general-purpose event-based state machine language that can be used in many ways, including:

*As a high-level dialog language controlling VoiceXML 3.0's encapsulated speech modules (voice form, voice picklist, etc.)

*As a voice application metalanguage, where in addition to VoiceXML 3.0 functionality, it may also control database access and business logic modules.

*As a multimodal control language in the MultiModal Interaction framework, combining VoiceXML 3.0 dialogs with dialogs in other modalities including keyboard and mouse, ink, vision, haptics, etc. It may also control combined modalities such as lipreading (combined [[speech recognition]] and vision) speech input with keyboard as fallback, and multiple keyboards for multi-user editing.

*As the state machine framework for a future version of CCXML.

*As an extended call center management language, combining CCXML call control functionality with computer-telephony integration for call centers that integrate telephone calls with computer screen pops, as well as other types of message exchange such as chats, instant messaging, etc.

*As a general [[process control]] language in other contexts not involving speech processing.

The draft W3C [[VoiceXML]] 3.0 specification<ref>[http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml30/ Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 specification]</ref> includes State Chart and SCXML Representation to define functionality.

===Multimodal applications===

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[[File:Multimodal2.png|A multimodal configuration]]

The W3C document Authoring Applications for the Multimodal Architecture<ref>[http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-auth/ Authoring Applications for the Multimodal Architecture]</ref> describes a multimodal system whichthat implements the W3C Multimodal Architecture and gives an example of a simple multimodal application authored using various W3C markup languages, including SCXML, CCXML, VoiceXML 2.1 and HTML.

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Here is the state chart diagram which describes the behavior of a stopwatch:

[[File:SCXML stopwatch.jpg|A state chart diagram which describes the behavior of a SCXML stopwatch]]

The SCXML file describing the transitions in this diagram is:

<source lang="xml">

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<scxml xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/07/scxml" version="1.0" initial="ready">

<state id="ready">

<transition event="watch.start" target="running"/>

</state>

<state id="running">

<transition event="watch.split" target="paused"/>

<transition event="watch.stop" target="stopped"/>

</state>

<state id="paused">

<transition event="watch.unsplit" target="running"/>

<transition event="watch.stop" target="stopped"/>

</state>

<state id="stopped">

<transition event="watch.reset" target="ready"/>

</state>

</scxml>

</source>

(Apache Licenced, see on [http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/scxml/usecases/scxml-stopwatch.html this page])

==Implementations==

*[http://scxmlcc.org scxmlcc] An efficient scxml to C++ compiler.

*[http://www.convergys.com/products/media-exchange-home-zone/index.php Convergys Media Exchange] and [http://www.convergys.com/products/contact-center-software/intervoice-voice-portal.php Convergys Intelligent Voice Portal] contain orchestration engines that have been designed to initiate and manage media interactions. Media Exchange and Voice Portal are the industry's first commercially available products that have implemented the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) State Chart eXtensible Markup Language (SCXML) as the framework for building complex multi-modal interactions.

*[http://www.convergys.com/products/contact-center-software/intervoice-voice-portal.php#a2 Convergys Interaction Composer Studio] is a graphical, Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for building, deploying, and managing complex voice or multi-modal applications. Interaction Composer enables the development of applications that allow callers to perform tasks simultaneously or interrupt tasks with new requests, and then resume tasks where they left off. Interaction Composer leverages the W3C specification for State Chart eXtensible Markup Language (SCXML).

*[http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/scxml/ Apache Commons SCXML], a pure Java library to parse and execute SCXML diagrams

*[httphttps://code.googlegithub.com/pfmorbini/scxmlgui/ SCXMLgui] Java Visual Editor for SCXML.

*[https://githubscion.com/jbeard4/SCIONscxml.io SCION] SCXML implemented in portable JavaScript.

*[https://github.com/Touffy/JSSCxml JSSCxml] a Web browser implementation. Highly conformant, with good support for DOM Events. Only supports the ECMAScript datamodel.

*[https://github.com/tklab-tud/uscxml uSCXML] C/C++ interpreter and transformer/compiler with language bindings for Java and C#. Full ECMAScript support via JavaScriptCore or Google's v8, additional LUA and Prolog datamodels, only rudimentary support for XPath datamodel. PROMELA datamodel for formal verification with the SPIN model-checker.

*[https://github.com/Phrogz/LXSC LXSC] Lua XML StateChart interpreter - parses and executes SCXML state machines with a Lua data model.

*[http://code.qt.gitorious.orgio/cgit/qt-labs/scxmlqtscxml.git Qt SCXML Engine] implemented in C++ as well and tightly integrated with their [[Signals and slots|Signals and Slots]] concept, with a visual editor integrated in [[Qt Creator]].

*[https://xstate.js.org XState] implemented in TypeScript.

== Inactive implementations ==

The following implementations are inactive, i.e., the last change to their source code was made more than two years ago:

*[http://www.ling.gu.se/~lager/Labs/SCXML-Lab/ Web interface to an experimental SCXML implementation in the Oz programming language]

*[https://github.com/pelatimtt/Legian Legian] An SCXML engine implemented in Java using Rhino as a Javascript engine. It also supports some additional features such as custom tag libraries and includes. It is not fully W3C compliant.

*[http://www.sscxml.com Simple State Chart XML] provided the first publicly available SCXML C++ implementation.

*[httphttps://github.com/jroxendal/PySCXML PySCXML] a Python-implementation under active development. Supports a wide range of technologies, including websockets and SOAP. Highly standards-compliant. Also supports the ECMAScript datamodel. (last push 2013)

*[http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-labs/scxml Qt SCXML Engine] implemented in C++ as well and tightly integrated with their [[Signals and slots|Signals and Slots]] concept.

*[http://github.com/jroxendal/PySCXML PySCXML] a Python-implementation under active development. Supports a wide range of technologies, including websockets and SOAP. Highly standards-compliant. Also supports the ECMAScript datamodel.

*[http://pyscxml.spyderbrain.com The PySCXML Console] a web-based interactive SCXML console for running and interacting with SCXML documents. Supports the ECMAScript datamodel.

*[httphttps://code.google.com/archive/p/scxml4flex/ SCXML4Flex] ActionScript/Flex partial port of [httphttps://github.com/jroxendal/PySCXML PySCXML].

*[http://commons.apache.org/sandbox/gsoc/2010/scxml-eclipse EclipseSCXML] Eclipse Based Visual SCXML Editor.

*[http://code.google.com/p/scxmlgui/ SCXMLgui] Java Visual Editor for SCXML.

*[https://github.com/jbeard4/SCION SCION] SCXML implemented in portable JavaScript.

*[http://www.genesyslab.com/?solution=ContactCenterSoftware&page=Overview Genesys Contact Center Software] The Genesys Orchestration Server is the heart of the multi-channel Genesys Contact Center, coordinating customer interactions across voice, mobile, IVR and Web channels using SCXML.

==See also==

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==External links==

*[http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/ W3C SCXML lastspecification working draft1.0]

(Apache Licenced, see on *[http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/scxml/usecases/scxml-stopwatch.html thisSCXML Commons Usecases - Stopwatch pageexample])

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