The method relates to an
XML language based household appliance description method. The method is characterized by comprising the steps that 1) according to a
data structure of a device object, abstract summarization is performed to obtain classes of a plurality of objects, classes, attributes and operations of the objects are numerized, and an
XML language is adopted for constructing a household appliance description file, wherein the household appliance description file is a self-descriptive file of object attributes and interfaces; 2) a format of the household appliance description file is a
data structure file of a network object, a
metadata format of device function information description and a
data format of network
resource information transmission and storage; 3) the device function information description is used for numerical representation for the attributes of the objects and summarization of the
data type of a device function into 14 classes; 4) according the
data type classes of the household appliance function and a grammatical definition of a device description text, corresponding operation is performed; and 5) when a household appliance is connected to a
control network, after confirmation by a
handshake program, a network gateway reads text content of the household appliance device description file, thereby finishing
XML language based household appliance description. The XML language based household appliance description method has the beneficial effect of describing various complex relations between household appliances by using a relatively concise language.