Control apparatus, control instruction apparatus, control program product and control instruction program product for transmitting/receiving data described in extensible markup language

摘要

In order to improve throughput while transmitting/receiving data described in a standard language, a control apparatus includes: an XML data input/output interface to receive command data described in an extensible markup language (XML); an XML data analyzer to analyze the command data; and an MFP controller, when an element in which a control code is defined in a tag is detected from the command data by the XML data analyzer, to execute a process which is preliminarily associated with the control code defined in the tag of the element.