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xml, most of the people involved in the xml effort come from organizations that have a large amount of material in sgml. xml was designed to be compatible with existing standards like sgml, while solving the relatively new problem of sending highly structured documents over the web. , mostly, reading and understanding the xml specifications does not require extensive knowledge of sgml or any of the related technologies. , xml is in a way a restricted form of sgml. there are many subtle differences between documents as understood by xml systems and those same documents as understood by sgml systems. for instance treatment of white space immediately adjacent to tags may be different. , comes bound with a set of semantics and does not provide arbitrary structure. , html. in html both the tag semantics and the tag set are fixed , xml, with xml begining to spread and utilized by more and more people it is necessary to better understand what xml is, why it is different then other markup languages, and what the main goals of xml are. , sgml, which is the standard generalized markup language , in many organizations, filtering sgml to xml will be the standard procedure for web delivery. , xml has become essential in many sectors beyond its original core publishing and web audiences. , provides arbitrary structure, but is too difficult to use just for a web browser. sgml systems solve large, complex problems that make there expense understandable. however viewing structured documents sent over the web doesn't need such expense., aiim is the global industry association connecting users and suppliers of enterprise content management (ecm) technologies - tools and methods that help capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver content in support of business processes., it is important to understand why it was created. xml was created so that highly structured documents could be used over the world wide web. the alternatives that even come close, html and sgml, are not as useful for this function., the number of optional features in xml will be kept to the bare minimum, mainly because optional features inevitably raise compatibility problems when users want to share documents and mostly lead to confusion and frustration., xml supports a wide variety of applications. xml should be beneficial to many various diverse applications such as authoring, browsing, and content analysis. even though the main focus is on serving structured documents over the web, it is the only thing xml can do. , sgml, html, a mechanism to identify structures in a document. the xml specification defines a standard way to add markup to documents. , why xml, the buzz surrounding xml is seeming to grow with more and more people begining to convert over to the markup language. it is starting to become beneficial and possibly giving an edge to those who know what xml is, why it is different from other markup languages, and what its goals are. , to use easily use xml over the internet. users should be able to view xml documents as quickly and easily as html documents. this will only be possible when xml browsers are as widely available as html browsers., what is xml, today people are used html and accept it as the standard for markup language. however as with most computer technology a new and improved markup language is looking to take its place as the standard. this new language is known as xml., a markup language for documents containing sturctured information. , specifies neither semantics nor a tag set. in fact xml is really a meta-language for describing markup languages. in other words, xml creates a way to define tags and the structural relationships between them. since there's no predefined tag set, there can't be any preconceived semantics. all of the semantics of an xml document will either be defined by the applications that process them or by stylesheets., contains both content (words, pictures, etc.), and some indication of what role the content plays.(for instance, content in a section heading has a different meaning from content in a footnote, which means something different than content in a figure caption or content in a database table, etc.). virtually all documents have some sturctue., xml goals, the aiim cms conference and exposition was held where more than 33,000 people from around the world participated in the show, which focuses on document and records management processes and technology, this year a greater empahsis was on xml related topics. , it should be easy to write programs that process xml documents. it shold only take about two weeks for a competent computer science graduate student to build a program , xml documents should be easy to create. although there will eventually be enhanced editors to create and edit xml content, however they won't be out for a while. in the mean time it is possible to create xml documents in other ways such as directly in a standard text editor.