By now, XML has reached aw ide acceptance as data exchange format in E-Business. An efficient collaboration between different participants in E-Business thus, is only possible, when business partners agree on acommon syntax and have a common understanding of the basic concepts in the domain. XML covers the syntactic level, butlacks support for efficient sharing of conceptualizations. The WebOntology Language (OWL [Bec04]) in turn supports the representation of domain knowledge using classes,

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... perties and instances for the use in adistributed environment as the World Wide Web. We present in this paper amapping between the data model elements of XML and OWL. We give account about its implementation within ar eady-to-use XSLTframework, as well as its evaluation for common use cases. 1I ntroduction Today XML has reached aw ide acceptance as data exchange format in E-Business. An efficient collaboration between different participants in E-Business is only possible, when business partners agree on ac ommon syntax and have ac ommon understanding of the basic concepts in the domain. XML covers the syntactic level, butlacks support for efficient sharing of conceptualizations. The WebOntology Language (OWL [Bec04]) in turn supports the representation of domain knowledge using classes, properties and instances for the use in adistributed environment as the World Wide Web.