Re: What I've found so far XML - RE: [LUG] Open Source Day - sxiperl notes

[kevin bailey <kev.bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

i thought i'd chuck in a couple of book recommendations,

'XML for the world wide web' - by elizabeth castro (visual quickstart guide)

also,

'XML complete' from sybex

kev

Nick Kew wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Roland Tarver wrote:
>
>
> > The small amount that I've learned so far is ...
> >
> > XML marks up data. Like HTML does form presentation purposes, XML does for
> > infomative purposes. (meaning = data + information)
> > eg...
> >
> > HTML - Mark up for Presentation.
>
>
> WRONG!!!!
>
> Both XML and HTML mark up structure and information.  The fact that
> HTML is widely *abused* for presentation is a huge mistake, and one
> of the greatest weaknesses of the Web today.
>
>
> > Also, XML (extensible!), unlike HTML, can be extended. You can make your own
> > tags up.
>
>
> That's a rather deeper issue than I'm going to deal with here.  You're
> not comparing like with like.
>
>
>
> > The only other thing I've learned so far is that XML and HTML are subsets of
> > SGML - I also believe the w3c are making XHTML a subset of XML (which in
> > turn, as mentioned, is a subset of SGML - but don't quote me on this)
>
>
> Nope.  XML is almost a subset of SGML.  HTML is an application of SGML,
> while XHTML is an application of XML.
>
>
> > hope that made sense
>
>
> You've been reading too many half-truths.



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