Project: Sharing XML documents in a static P2P community (sP2P-DOM) Responsible Person: Damjan Vujnovic The XML data model is essentially a tree and it is heavily used for representing semistructured and hierarchical data. Sharing XML documents in decentralized environments can have many applications: distributed service discovery, a storage for ad-hoc/sensor networks, distributed search engines, a service in GRID computing, etc. Since XML trees can be easily represented using hash table structures, it is decided to use DHT P2P systems as a ground for building up needed functionalities. The DHT primitives should be used in a generic ways, so a DHT layer could be easily replaced by another one. The goal is to provide a subset of DOM (Document Object Model) interface on the top of DHT layer and to build simple XPath query engine (e.g. Apache Xalan) on the top of provided interface. At the end, a demo application is needed to demonstrate all implemented functionalities. Management of XML documents should be fully transparent for users of P2P-DOM component.