A primer on the Petri Net Markup Language and ISO/IEC 15909-2
Résumé
In 2000, there was a workshop [1] that should foster the definition of a standard transfer format for Petri
nets as a satellite event of the annual ?Petri Net Conference? in Aarhus. As a result of this first workshop,
after many other discussions and meetings, the Petri Net Markup Language (PNML) is about to be finally
adopted as ISO/IEC 15909-2. Over the years, PNML has evolved and, unfortunately, there are many
different intermediate versions and variants, that are still in use. With this paper, we would like to report
on the final result and on PNML as it is defined in ISO/IEC 15909-2. This way, we hope to unify the
different lines of PNML and advertise the use of ISO/IEC 15909-2.