Sunday, November 8, 2009

Week 11 Reading

An Introduction to the Extensible Markup Language (XML) online article-
  • designed to make it easy to interchange structured doc over the internet, clearly mark where start and end parts of interchanged doc occurs.
  • language that allows users to form compound doc, identify where illustrations incorporated, add editorial comments to a file, etc.
  • used as a way to read tag sets
  • allows for adding standard text to a file as well as characters outside standard
  • There are 3 types of markup- XML processing instruction, document type declaration, and document instance- with all 3 a document is considered valid
  • Storing data in format provided by XML ensure data will be transferable to wide range of hardware and software environments.
A survey of XML standards: Part 1 online article-
  • this article is intended to provide users a guideline to the standards of XML
  • XML 1.0- technology tree, builds on Unicode to define strict rules for text format as well as DTD
  • XML 1.1 first revision changes definition of a well-formed XML doc, change in characters uses
  • Article provides recommendations for tutorials and other resources concerning XML
  • XML catalogs defines instructions how XML process XML identifiers into actual documents
  • Namespaces in XML 1.0- mechanism for universal naming of elements and attributes in XML docs., 1.1 is an update that incorporates errata and adds support for internationalized URIs.
  • Article further explains different standards of form that have been developed for XML
Extending your Markup, an XML tutorial online article-
  • This article is a further resource on the use and structure of XML articles
  • It discusses the extension of its capabilities with Namespaces, Addresses and Linking
  • There are codes that allow for transformation of the language in styling of documents
XML Schema Tutorial website instruction-
  • tutorial that instructs user on how to create XML Schemas, which are more powerful and how to use in your application
  • XML schemas support data types and make it easier to provide content in documents
  • They are extensible
  • article provides examples of code in creating a XML schema

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