Reading Week #9

Martin Bryan's Introducing the Extensible Markup Language explains to us why we need XML. HTML is designed mainly for web browser's XML allows us to use it for other type content. XTML is a presentation language whereas XML is a data description language. The more I read the information the more I begin to understand it. The article A survey of XML standards pt. #1 explains the core standards. XML 1.0 second edition set the standard .XML 1.1 set the first enforced standard for XML . Extending your markup XML tutorial and XML Schema Tutorial explains the different types of elements such as empty elements and complex elements. one of the greatest strength of XML Schemas is the support for Data types. Seeing the examples also helped me understand them.( Element) I understood this weeks reading a little more last weeks.