Unit 9: XML (11/8)

Muddiest point

I can not tell you how scary this is and I always hoped there would never be a need for me to learn it. Everything seems muddy to me at this point and I just hope I can get it enough to complete Assignment 6. Can you show me an example of what I might need to know this for as a librarian?

Comments 

November 19, 2010 4:24 PM

November 19, 2010 

Reading Notes

      Martin Bryan.  Introducing the Extensible Markup Language (XML) http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/internet/web/xmlintro.htm

 Thank you fellow classmates for helping me find and access this. The article was based on the background of XML and it structure. I was confused though ….what students according to the BURKS would need this? Is this entirely out of date?

 Uche Ogbuji. A survey of XML standards: Part 1. January 2004. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand1.html

Once again this article or should I say articles went way over my head. With no background in this it has managed to scare me even more should I need to prove capable. However there are good solid tutorials and did give use examples and I will store this away for future reference.

 Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial by Andre Bergholz PDF

This article had some great examples as well and made the differences between HTML and XML a little clearer. Of course one again for one with no background in this area it is so much to try and grasp all at once.

 XML Schema Tutorial http://www.w3schools.com/Schema/default.asp

The article like the one we read last week had clear and concise tutorials. I think the basics are here. I hope!