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Using XSL in Generating HTML Pages from Relational Databases
Describe the role that XSL can play when dynamically generating HTML pages from a relational database Even if candidates have never participated in a project involving this type of architecture, they should recognize it as one of the common uses of XML. Querying a database and then formatting the re...
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Where Should I Use XML
Where Should I Use XML? Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML. Despite early attempts, browsers never allowed oth...
2007-04-11, 4766👍, 0💬

Is there an XML version of HTML
Is there an XML version of HTML? Yes. The W3C recommends using XHTML which is a reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0. This specification defines HTML as an XML application, and provides three DTDs corresponding to the ones defined by HTML 4.* (Strict, Transitional, and Frameset). The semantics of the ...
2007-04-11, 4736👍, 0💬

Why There Is No Extension of HTML
Why not just carry on extending HTML? HTML was already overburdened with dozens of interesting but incompatible inventions from different manufacturers, because it provides only one way of describing your information. XML allows groups of people or organizations to create their own customized markup...
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Who Is Responsible for XML
Who is responsible for XML? XML is a project of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and the development of the specification is supervised by an XML Working Group. A Special Interest Group of co-opted contributors and experts from various fields contributed comments and reviews by email. XML is a p...
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Why Should I Use XML
Why should I use XML? Here are a few reasons for using XML (in no particular order). Not all of these will apply to your own requirements, and you may have additional reasons not mentioned here. XML can be used to describe and identify information accurately and unambiguously, in a way that computer...
2007-04-11, 4689👍, 0💬

Describe the differences between XML and HTML
Describe the differences between XML and HTML It's amazing how many developers claim to be proficient programming with XML, yet do not understand the basic differences between XML and HTML. Anyone with a fundamental grasp of XML should be able describe some of the main differences outlined in the ta...
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Which parts of an XML document are case-sensitive
Which parts of an XML document are case-sensitive? All of it, both markup and text. This is significantly different from HTML and most other SGML applications. It was done to allow markup in non-Latin-alphabet languages, and to obviate problems with case-folding in writing systems which are caseless...
2007-04-11, 4636👍, 0💬

Examples of XML DTDs or schemas that you have worked with
Give some examples of XML DTDs or schemas that you have worked with Although XML does not require data to be validated against a DTD, many of the benefits of using the technology are derived from being able to validate XML documents against business or technical architecture rules. Polling for the l...
2007-04-11, 4629👍, 0💬

Differences of XML, SGML, and HTML
Aren't XML, SGML, and HTML all the same thing? Not quite. SGML is the mother tongue, and has been used for describing thousands of different document types in many fields of human activity, from transcriptions of ancient Irish manuscripts to the technical documentation for stealth bombers, and from ...
2007-04-11, 4613👍, 0💬

Applications That Can Nenefit from Using XML
Give a few examples of types of applications that can benefit from using XML. There are literally thousands of applications that can benefit from XML technologies. The point of this question is not to have the candidate rattle off a laundry list of projects that they have worked on, but, rather, to ...
2007-04-11, 4577👍, 0💬

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