In the HTML literature that we read and subsequently discussed in class, I am not sure if I understand what the element actually is...
is "....... " the element or is it the element tag?? OR is the element the series of these "tags" in the document???
Friday, October 31, 2008
Week 9 - XML, just when i was trying to understand html???
At first glance the Extensible Mark up Language looks quite intimidating. In Bryan's article, I understood SGML but when he jumped right into DTD and its applications I was lost and floundering...for the rest of the article I was deeply befuddled. The next piece by Ogbuji saved me from the murky waters of XML.
This article was not only explained that XML was a more semantic approach to annotating text but it provided a clear description fo how XML works with SGML and HTML as well as the merits of using XML.
The tutorials were useful on some level but I am jst getting my head around using HTML and feel very inexerienced in this stuff. In my case, I think I will have to revisit these tutorials after I have attempted to create the first page of our last assignment. Once I have a practical application of the HTML then I might be able to compare the use of XML for certain documents.
This article was not only explained that XML was a more semantic approach to annotating text but it provided a clear description fo how XML works with SGML and HTML as well as the merits of using XML.
The tutorials were useful on some level but I am jst getting my head around using HTML and feel very inexerienced in this stuff. In my case, I think I will have to revisit these tutorials after I have attempted to create the first page of our last assignment. Once I have a practical application of the HTML then I might be able to compare the use of XML for certain documents.
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