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Exactly what is XHTML

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Ah, and one quick summary of the benefits of xml: - it is portable. Any machine can create and read a text file. - it allows providing data and a data structure on a layer which is independent of the data source. Eg, you can change the db, and keep the xml and application layers intact. - it allows exchanging data easilly: an uri can become a data source very easilly (see RSS feeds). - it provides a unified language to define data and data structures. XSL must be understood as a transformation language only: it will map a document object model to another document, and document object model, given a set of custom rules. This must not be envisionned as normal parsing: what is parsed is not the text only, but the whole data structure, relationships between elements. On top of xml and xsl, the application layer is responsible for parsing the tags and providing a correct display: a web browser is an xhtml reader, but anyone could create a custom xml format and, given the adequate skills, an application to render his own xml. Adobe's SVG parser is one. I am making two apps based on xml as the file format atm. There are many other benefits to using XML... see it as a way to unifiy the world of data formats, among positive ways in which XML impacts development today. Loading...
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