From: Konrad Meyer <konrad@...>
Date: 2007-11-18T13:58:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Five Top programming Languages

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Quoth Devi Web Development:
> > For that matter, what is XML??
> >
> > --
> > Konrad Meyer http://konrad.sobertillnoon.com/
> >
>=20
> You've probably seen XML, or at least another SGML-subset like HTML
> They look like this:
> <tag attribute=3D"value" anotherAttribute=3D"anotherValue">
>   Some content
>   <aNestedTag someAttribute=3D"more space separated values" />
>   More Content
>   <!-- a comment -->
> </tag>
>=20
> It was created by the W3C, the folks who really standardized HTML,
> invented CSS, RDF, SMIL, SVG, Atom (as in news feeds, not the
> elementary particle) It's popular because it's simple, and there are
> standardized ways for accessing it, and manipulating it (XPath,
> XQuery, XSLT, DOM, etc.) It's main use is as a file for meaningful
> data, separate from the program that manipulates or generates it. The
> new Microsoft Word uses an XML vocabulary as their default file
> format. Operating systems more and more seem to be full of it. I've
> said enough.
> see the W3C's page
> http://www.w3.org/XML/
>=20
>=20
> -Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney

Sorry my sarcasm wasn't clear enough, good people of ruby-talk. ;P

Regards,
=2D-=20
Konrad Meyer <konrad@tylerc.org> http://konrad.sobertillnoon.com/

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