Basic HTML version of Foils prepared January 19 1999

Foil 31 Web Technologies in a Nutshell - XML

From Introduction to Object Web Technologies (Internetics) Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Nancy McCracken, Geoffrey C. Fox


1 HTML is powerful but does not separate display and form (structure of document component as an object)
2 XML is a generalization of HTML which allows definition of arbitrary tags
3 e.g. <student name="Jane Doe" class="CPS616" grade="..." >Working Hard</student> is more elegant way of capturing information in a reliable fashion than HTML
4 <h2>Students</h2> <ul><li>Jane Doe: Working Hard</li><ul> <li>Class: CPS616</li> <li>Grade: ...</li> .... </ul> </ul> with a PERL program to extract data
5 XML allows powerful way of defining dynamic Ascii databases useful for "modest size data" such as people, document citations etc.
6 XML parsers map XML tags into HTML for display
7 XML can also be used to define extensions to HTML such as special tags for mathematics or chemistry or .....
8 XML defines syntax for "serializing" Web objects and transmitting between clients and servers

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