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At 10:05 18/06/98 -0500, Monica khurana wrote: >I am presently working on a project in which I intend to use XML. I am >looking for resources more to do with the implementation. >I have an idea about DTD's and XML page creation. >I am more interested in terms of the implementation of XML pages using a >java applet on IE4. Could somebody explain the working of the same or lead >me to some resource where I can get this information. I am still a little >confused about how XML pages are implemented- not from the code point of >view but more from the relationship of XML pages, java parser and getting >them up on the net. Hi Monica, welcome. I suspect a lot of people have similar questions and there is no one answer. I sometimes use the terms 'documents' or 'instances' rather than 'pages', partly because XML is far more powerful than HTML. For example you can use XML to represent programmable mathematics. a molecule, metadata, e-commerce data, or the structure of a program (and there are many other applications which don't map onto HTML.). If - as I suspect - your pages are mainly text, you will need to consider how you want them processed when they reach the client. The most common process will be to apply a stylesheet to the document so as to render it on the screen and/or print. If you want generic functionality of this sort, it will shortly arrive in major browsers and many other tools - you would only use Java yourself if you had a burning desire or need to write a browser. (I had and I have, but that's the exception :-). If, however, your pages are 'interactive' or require further processing you are going to have to write some Java. In which case JUMBO2 is a useful core, as is SAXON. To create the documents you can find Henry Thompson's XED editor (unless you create yours from a program). To server them, you simply mount them with a MIME type of text/xml or application/xml. [This is not *quite* ratified, I think, but it's coming]. When the XML document reaches the client, it will either be XML-aware, or will fire a helper that is. HTH P. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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