Q. How does SuperSurvey work?
The details of a survey maker's survey are stored in a special language called
GQML™ for General Questionnaire Markup Language, which is a subset of XML. Upon
activation, the GQML document is used to prepare a customized program which resides upon
our servers. That way, survey makers never share the same server-side program for their
surveys, giving greater speed, independence, and reliability.
Q. Why do you use GQML™ / XML?
By building our software around an language (GQML™) rather than around a particular
program, we are creating a system that is inherently flexible. For example, using a
GQML-based survey, you could administer the same survey over the Web, phone, and PDAs,
with a similar user experience for each.
Also, SuperSurvey recognizes the needs of business customers who are standardizing their
data interchange formats around XML. Therefore, as XML becomes more widely supported,
business customers can design and deploy their surveys directly by editing their own
XML/GQML documents.