Full XML documentation from Photogrammetric survey to 3D visualization. The case study of shawbak castle in Jordan Pierre Drap1, Anne Durand, Julien Seinturier, Guido Vannini, Michele Nucciotti Table of contents 1 Introduction........................................................................................................................ 4 2 Archaeology of an overseas feudal society........................................................................ 5 2.1 Territorial organization in the Petra region (Jordan) during Crusader Age.................. 5 2.2 Light Archaeology......................................................................................................... 6 3 The photogrammetric campaign........................................................................................ 6 4 Measuring blocks and stratigraphic unitS.......................................................................... 7 4.1 Pre existing method....................................................................................................... 7 4.2 New proposal................................................................................................................. 7 4.3 The I-MAGE method.................................................................................................... 8 4.4 3D blocks....................................................................................................................... 9 5 Publication....................................................................................................................... 10 5.1 3D expression CAD, VRML and X3D........................................................................10 5.2 The XML database...................................................................................................... 10 5.3 Revising and updating................................................................................................. 11 6 Conclusion and future work............................................................................................. 12 7 acknowledgments............................................................................................................. 12 Copyright © 2006 Pierre Drap, Pierre Grussenmeyer 1998, 2006 All rights reserved.