Is XML for me?

[Irishmo]

Challenge: Courses currently formatted twice for print and online delivery. Would like one source of text/content for editing to deliver for print, online, pda.

Have used server-side includes and text files. Would XML be better than XHTML and CSS?

Would special schemas be needed for math and foreign language courses?

 

[CubeE101]

Ummm....

XHTML is XML + DTD/XSL/CSS ;-)

HTML is a form of XML with predefined tags...

with XML, you could set up different XSL (Xtensible Stylesheet Language) or DTD (Document Template Definition) to display in different ways... which would result in a html/xhtml document...

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[Karl Blessing]

Basically what Cube said above, XHTML is the by-product of processing an XML into presentable data either thru XSL/DTD or even CSS( tho XML with CSS doesnt work nearly as well as XSL ).

Karl Blessing
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[CubeE101]

yeah, I'm not sure how clear I was...

Use DTD or XSL to translate to a html (aka xhtml)

then you could use a CSS to define the display...

And yes... You could setup the display with XSL and leave the CSS out... or if you already have a CSS setup, you can save some typing on the XSL side...

HTML - Hyper Text Markup Lanuguage
XML - Xtensible Markup Language
CSS - Cascading Style Sheet
XSL - Xtensible StyleSheet Language
XSL is basically to CSS as XML is to HTML
both allow you to extend the languages, or more or less create your own...

>>Would XML be better than XHTML and CSS?

XML would be more FLEXIBLE than HTML... CSS can be used to the end result of either choice...

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