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XML: where does the fun come in?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	How much simpler would the world be it we all spoke and wrote the exact same language? How simple would your overseas trips be if the whole world used the exact same currency and electrical sockets? Sounds wonderful doesn't it. Sounds like what XML is ~supposed~ to do with the way electronic mediums communicate and interact. Hopefull one day it will be like that but it will take some time. That's not to say XML it's already being used however. There are server side XML phrasers and transformers. Which means the client accessing the server (be it a web browser, mobile phone or your fridge) will be able to access the data. There are also many companies using XML to markup data for their applications using their own XML phrasers to interpret the data. One for example it the new game by Red Storm Entertainment, Ghost Recon. It's a 3D shooter game however all of the game options and stats are marked up in XML. This includes all of your performance options ect ect.. One day we may be able to go online to get support for a game and [b]not[/b] have to tell tech support our computer/driver specs and exact game configuration. Now wouldn't that be nice. I've really only looked into PHP's XML capabilities and well... I was rather un-impressed with what I found. You can phrase XML with PHP but not very well. As far as I know there currently isn't any XSLT functions in PHP. I have however heard many good things about ASP's XML abilites. Although I don't have any access to ASP enabled servers and I'm too lazy to set up IIS & ASP on my home PC so I haven't looked into it yet. Anyway, I hope it helped. [This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 02-03-2002).] Loading...
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