For those throwing the "PIA" moniker around as an acronym for Poor Internet
Application, it's already taken. Sorry Rob.

http://www.risource.org/PIA/PIA_FAQ.shtml

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What is the Platform for Information Applications (PIA)?

The PIA is a framework for building information applications -- systems that
embed a small amount of processing in a large amount of information. In the
PIA framework, each application consists of two parts:

  1.. A collection of task-specific XML pages which contain
active-processing tags (<if>, <include>, <repeat>,, etc); These look very
much like HTML pages.
  2.. A core software layer (including a dynamic XML processor) that is
shared by all applications
The goal is to make active pages which are both easier to customize and more
powerful than ordinary web pages.

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-Kevin
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