Extensible  Markup Language

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• XML is a meta language for specifying mark up languages, such as HTML.
• It is a simplified version of SGML.
• Its grammar follows the extended Backus Normal Form, implies that the tags in XML documents must be "well-formed" or "properly nested" and form a tree structure for easy editing and manipulation.
• Examples of XML applications include
• SMIL (Sychronization Multimedia Integration Language)
• SVG (W3C Scalable Vector Graphics)
• VML (Vector Markup Language, proposed by Microsoft)
• CML (Chemical Markup Language)
• MathML (Mathematical Markup Language)
• ...
• IBM XML Java parser.
• main web page: http://www.w3c.org/xml

XSLT

• XSLT (Stylesheet Transformation Language for XML)

Tutorial:

• XML Tutorial from W3Schools.com
• Introduction to XML by Jay Greenspan 13 Oct 1998
• What is XML? by Norman Walsh
• XML in XML  by Tim Bray (using IE5)
• Working with XML in Mozilla (Netscape 6) by Simon St. Laurent
• Microsoft XML web site.
• Microsoft XML demos. (Including Auction example)

Interesting web sites:

• XML sites for developer.
• minXML written in 28 lines Javascript
• Processing XML with Perl by Michel Rodriguez (4/2000)
• IBM XML site: http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/

Viewgraphs:

• Introduction to XML, a powerpoint presentation

Examples:

• XMLPaser Example from W3C. using javascrip to load and parse an XML file, extract tag values and display them on the HTML web page
• grade display example, its xsl, using XML and XSL,  works on IE5
• doc/chapter/section example, its xsl, using XML and XSL.

It is an example in XSLT modifed to work on IE5.
It contains a doc.dtd document type data file.
• menu example from Microsoft, its xsl, using XML and XSL.
• Auction transform-viewer example from Microsoft
• Time Bray's First XML in XML, its css, using XML and CSS.
• Using html in XML,  its css.
• books2.xml example, its css2 file, using XML and CSS2, from Simon St. Laurent, works nicely on NS6.
• xml,dtd,xsl exercise