Friday, October 31, 2008

Assigned Reading 9 Intro to XML

Basically this article talks about XML and what it's function is within the a structured document on the Internet.  It defines how the Internet uniform resource locaters can be used to identify components parts of a data stream.
The XML can identify where illustrations are to be incorporated into text; provide process control and can make editorial comments.
Tags are based on logical structure--there is a start tag to an end tag.  A special form of tag is used to indicate an empty element.
A unique identifier can be used to provide a cross reference between points in a document

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