Final Year Projct

Hello World

My final year project reads:

'XML is being put forward as a substitute for HTML in developing e-commerce web sites and as a replacement for traditional EDI in the interchange of commercial transactions between organisations. This project is an investigation into the nature of XML and its potential for e-commerce applications. The project will include the development of a demonstration system using XML.'

From what i have read so far it seems that XML can be used to facilitate HTML in web development, not replace it. Could anyone suggest how i would go about answering this problem( what i would need to investigate) and a what sort of system would i need to develop.

Many thanks in advance

Slug

no its not.
XHTML, not XML, is the replacement, not a substitute, for HTML; XHTML being a web markup language implemented in XML, which is a subset of SGML -- just as HTML is....... - XHTML is very strict HTML in order to comply with XML; whilst retaining much of the functionality of HTML it loses the style attributes which need to be implemented either by XSL or CSS.

XML is a standard, not a language as such - it allows the creation of other languages by providing a set of rules that allow other languages to be defined in a standard manner.

It can also be used for storing/outputting structured data in a non-platform dependent format.


you are more correct than whoever wrote this project.......

i think so anyway, but as always, i could be wrong

there's also a LOT more to whats been/being done with xml , you need to check out
w3c.org , xml.org at least

Check this place out
http://www.w3schools.com