Week 9 notes

Martin Bryan. Introducing the Extensible Markup Language

-XML= not a large clothing size, but subset of the Standard Generalized Markup Language designed to make it easy to interchange structured documents over the Internet
-always clearly making beginnings and ends, ensures fall back options are available when access to certain components of the document is not currently possible over the Internet
-allows users to: bring multiple files together to form compound documents; identify where illustrations are to be incorporated into text files, and the format used to encode each illustration; provide processing control information to supporting programs, such as document validators and browsers; add editorial comments to a file
-is NOT: a predefined set of tags, of the type defined for HTML, that can be used to markup documents; a standardized template for producing particular types of documents.
-based on concept of documents
-set up to use markup tags (<…..>)
-can incorporate standard and nonstandard text elements, illustrations, tables
-contain three types of markup: processing instruction, document type declaration, and document instance

Uche Ogbuji. A survey of XML standards: Part 1. January 2004

-XML growing and difficult for beginners to navigate (probably why we have two readings and a tutorial on the subject.
-article is a summary of what the author sees “as the most important XML technologies, and discuss how they each fit into the greater scope of things in the XML world.” The author also recommends tutorials and other useful resources for evaluating and learning to use each technology which a fully clickable
-author=”a consultant and co-founder of Fourthought Inc., a software vendor and consultancy specializing in XML solutions for enterprise knowledge management. Fourthought develops 4Suite, an open source platform for XML, RDF, and knowledge-management applications. Mr. Ogbuji is a computer engineer and writer born in Nigeria, living and working in Boulder, Colorado, USA.” Seems well versed and knowledgeable on the subject

Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial by Andre Bergholz

-I found this article very easy to read and liked the addition of examples to aid in the overall presentation
-an important aspect of the article was the Nonterminal element Boom example, as we are going to library school
-Article pretty much covers same material as other in this week’s readings, but in a much more concise and plan fashion.

XML Schema Tutorial

-another w3schools tutorial, long but full of clear definitions, examples, and a test to assure you paid attention