1) Martin Bryan. Introducing the Extensible Markup Language (XML) http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/internet/web/xmlintro.htm
Burks sounds like a useful resources for those that are novists about various programs. It is unfortunate that much of the software has gone 9 years without updates. I wonder if the market for this tye of information will resurrect itself.
2) Uche Ogbuji. A survey of XML standards: Part 1. January 2004. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand1.html
I was not aware that there were so many versions of XML. I thought that this was one interchangable aspect of software. It states that XML has been updated to be compatible in streaming within various unicodes. I wonder what the relationship within these unicodes to begin with.
3) Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial by Andre Bergholz PDF
Prior to reading this document, I was not aware what DTD's were. It seems like this resource allows users to specify various tags. Also, I was not away that DTD could act as whole seperate file.
4) XML Schema Tutorial http://www.w3schools.com/Schema/default.asp:
It is interesting how XML defines schemas within documents. It might be interesting to use XML in order to analyze various structures which create documents. Perhaps I could manipulate these schemas in order to reduce file size within my harddrive.
Adam Brody
Concerning your response to the Ogbuji article, I would not really call them "versions." The word that he used to describe the technologies created via XML was "standards." Then again, the author clearly stated that he himself was not confident about using the term. Of course, I am not being entirely dismissive about the word you used. If the author was trying to go more into details about how the technologies work, then I am sure under that condition the term "version" could apply. There is a likelihood that alterations can be made to a language, just so it can allow the technology to function. Other than that, as long as the language remains untouched, there were never any different "versions" of XML, only "standards" (as Ogbuji hesitantly put it).
ReplyDeleteI didn't know what DTDs were either -- which was unsettling when on the W3 Schools site it said you should have some knowledge of them before doing the tutorial! :)
ReplyDeleteI like your idea about using schemas to analyze structure within a document; very interesting. How would that reduce file size?
Your comment on there still being a market for the kit made me wonder about how appropriate/usable they would be for use now, they have not been touched for a long time and things become obsolete so quickly in the electronic environment.
ReplyDeleteLike you before the third article I hadn't been sure exactly what DTDs were either. I know I had come across the term but not much explanation for it before. Definitely helped me to get acquainted with what it is and how its used and what not.
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