Markup code, or markup language, is basically a set of words and symbols created by the computer industry with the goal of helping to process, organize, and present information, as well as to inform ...
Once you have your data in XML, a world of opportunities and tools (both client side and server side) are open to you. Phillip Perkins is a contractor with Ajilon Consulting. His experience ranges ...
Have you ever played the “spot the development platform” game? In my version of it, points are awarded to players who correctly guess what programming language an application is written in, simply by ...
In one of Matt Cutts' videos on SEO questions, he answers a question about if you should build an HTML or XML Sitemap. An HTML sitemap is an old school landing page for users to find all (or most) of ...
The Web was originally intended to make content easily accessible. Today, Web developers focus on style and marketing, but the need to put together content-driven Web sites quickly and easily remains ...
Just when you thought the uncontrolled forces of the Web were finally getting manageable, along comes multidimensional data. We’re talking XML, which unlocks data from many sources for many ...
XML has two main advantages: first, it offers a standard way of structuring data, and, second, we can specify the vocabulary the data uses. We can define the vocabulary (what elements and attributes ...
This is a bit loaded question as if you're looking at this page, it's rendered from (X)HTML = XML. But what I am interested in (for a talk / research topic) is if people are still choosing (directly ...
Figure 3. Big XML files. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image. Eight years since its inception, XML has already taken off as an open, semi-structured data format for storing data as well as ...