RE: [PHP] How to deal with XML?
| From: | Jay Blanchard | Date: | Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:19:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] How to deal with XML? | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Just a small correction. I could be wrong but I don't believe XML is a
subset
of SGML but created to be used instead of. It was created from the
ground up
to replace SGML(not the easiest language to work with).
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From the first paragraph of the intro at http://www.w3c.org/XML/
"Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format
derived from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges
of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an
increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on
the Web and elsewhere."
It is a subset of SGML (which is too far ingrained to go away).
For more on PHP and XML see http://us4.php.net/xml