XML = Extensible Markup Language
A little background...
 | Proposed by the W3C; it is a simplified form of the SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) - a standard that has existed from the 1980's. |
| It provides for rules or guidelines for designing formats for text data. |
| XML produces files that are easy to create and ultimately be read by computer software (e.g., browsers). |
| XML can be "infinitely" extended and enables cross-platform presentation of data. |
| XML documents consist entirely of text. |
This Section of thePlace...
This section contains a number of sub-sections that cover the following topics...
| What is XML? Including examples and detailed background. |
| Formatting XML with CSS |
| The DTD and XML (the DTD is used to define the data structure for XML) |
| XSL for formatting XML documents |
| THE XML DOM |
References
| A nice overview... XML in 10 points http://www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points |
| XML 1.0 Specification http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml |
| Microsoft XML resource (MSDN): http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/default.asp |
| XML Cover Pages... http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgml-xml.html |
| XML.COM ... http://www.xml.com/ |
| Some good books |
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