An Introduction to XML

Whoops, I thought XML was just another MS doodle to get more money from the ignorant pseudo-IT-technician... My wrong!
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Anyway, will it fulfill my wishes of what I expect from the successor to HTML?

Ok - this is a <truth>serious</truth> question & I am not trying to be sarcastic , I have read pages and pages of articles about XML , downloaded an editor and sample <whichAfter30or40LinesOfCodePrintedA5WordList>code</whichAfter30or40LinesOfCodePrintedA5WordList> etc etc etc - but I still can not figure out what I should do with XML & more importantly WHY ???? What is the whole point of the language apart from confusing me. I can not see what can be acheived with XML that can not be <spelling>acheived</?spelling> with several existing alternatives.Please tell me what I am Missing !

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am working as a web developer
in a reputed company in Mumbai.India,

we are into a big searcg engine project
we plan to use XML for client side
coding. How can i start and
i want to finish it of with in a week
could you please send some resources,
and tips on XML to above mail address


Hari

I like the question. And the style in which it was asked. I think one of the downsides to the internet is that you become aware of hundreds of things you feel you need to know. Just look at the lefthand column of devshed.com to see what I mean.

For example, what the hell is Zope?!?!

Although I have not use XML for anything yet I have implemneted many and various projects that push data about and stuff it into something (database/files etc.) In my present poisition I'm even re-implementing the same project, with the same data - just at a new place.

In this instance we are stuffing Perl structures into a MySQL db. However, I'm now getting into Java Servlets for my server side stuff and the Perl-centric data items are a potential pain.

If only there was some common way of storing them, that expressed the relationships and structure of the data, and would be recognised by all the different language paltforms.

Enter XML.

I can now regenerate a new DB passing my original data through the Perl XML::Dump thing and then read it back with the right Java hoojamy.

I know there's more to XML than just this but you wanted an example!

Hope it helps,
Chris

dear sir,
what i wanted to view was simple
xml examples with html & jsml tags in them.
i would be grateful to u if org.
sends me reply at my e_mail addr...
somam singh...

Is XML good for technical writers who create online help files? can XML be converted to printed documentation? If so, are there any shareware or freeware applications I can try?

Dear sir,

I need to know how can I use PHP with XML in order to obtain information contained in a database (MySQL).

Thanks,

Sonia

Dear sir, I want to know how can I use PHP with XML in order to obtain information contained in a database (MySQL) and embedded with xml . Thanks, bala.

I'd wanted to find out whether Netscape 4.5 supports XML...

If so can I get some sample code that uses XML that works on Netscape...coz I've been trying with whatever little info I have on XML to get Netscape to support some XML document but to no avail...

thanx

Netscape 4.5 does not support XML code to the browser.
You will need Netscape 6 pr1 or IE 5.0+.

I am new to XML also, after having been coding HTML & DHTML for over 3 years now, it appears to me that XML less to do with the presentation of a given page, whereas the structure of the pages.

Hi,

good question!!!!
But where is the answer?

claudia

Suprisingly, in this article there was no mention of XSLT, or an XSLT processor.

XSLT: eXtensible Stylesheet Language for Transformation.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt/

Takes XMLdocs and XSLstylesheets and generates HTML, WML, and any other format depending on what XSLstylesheet you use.

XML starts to make more sense if you get a handle on this.

David Kane.

A starting point, with examples.

Of all places! http://www.php.net/manual/ref.xml.php

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am working as web developer in a well established company Bangalore. We are going to develope a project using XML, C++ & etc. And i want to know about XML from start. Please convey me how can i start. I want it to do throughly it's important for my career and ... So could u please send me some resources, and guidelines on XML.
thankx,
tapodhan