Re: What is actaully XML??

Nah, the problem is the media is making XML out to be something it's not. A tool for web documents. Everybody says that it's good because the data is seperate from the presentation, and in theory it's good, but it comes at the expense of interface until XML support matures somewhat. For now, it's really just another step between data and your browser, but that will change. The best use of XML is allowing different programs to share data, including a human (browser), because it's standardised- because the translation to html happens outside of the xml file, it won't be corrupted by the likes of <blink> tags and so forth, so programs to read the information won't need to be as complex as they would to seperate the data from the presentation. Did that help anybody? Any other opinions? -Gfunk [-= Visit my website! http://www.gfunk007.com/ - ICQ:74477509 =-] ----- Original Message ----- From: Bart <no@reply.net> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] What is actaully XML?? > I was reading a article about it, and at the moment I think it is a > development wich I don't like at all ! > > You can put own defined tags in HTML like; > <name>Bart</name> > <lastname>Burky</lastname> > > Then with this tags the document can me displayed on different ways. > As I see it, its more back to the local processing in stead of the > client/server idea what has become so popular with basic HTML 1.1 > > My opinion is that you can do everything with the existing HTML language, > and I am a bit said that we are always making new versions. > > Lets explore other areas! , > > life is short, lets swim to the moon.... > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >