Posted by Fred on 05/23/06 02:35

Thanks, Toby.

"Toby Inkster" <usenet200605@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Fred wrote:
>
> > Just about the time I have started to feel comfortable programming in
HTML,
> > this XML comes along.
>
> Firstly, creating an HTML document is not "programming" any more than
> creating a PDF document or a GIF image. Secondly, XML came along more than
> eight years ago.
>
> > Would some kind soul pls post the difference between the two and why one
> > is better than the other.
>
> Neither is "better" -- it's like comparing apples with oranges.
>
> HTML is a language for marking up documents -- describing their structure.
> For example:
>
> <h1>This is a heading.</h1>
> <p>This is a paragraph. <em>This is important.</em></p>
> <h2>This is a sunheading.</h2>
> <img src="this_is_an_image" alt="this is some alternative text">
> <!-- and so on -->
>
> XML is not a language for marking up documents -- XML is a framework for
> creating *other* markup languages.
>
> For example, using XML, people have created:
>
> * SVG - an image format
> * RSS - a format suitable for syndicating news stories
> * MathML - a format for describing mathematical symbols and formulae
> * SMIL - a format for describing multimedia presentations
> * XHTML - a language similar to HTML, but obeying XML rules
>
> So in summary:
>
> * HTML is a language for creating documents
> * XML is a technology for creating languages
>
> --
> Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
> Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact
>

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