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At 07:58 PM 2/17/1999 +0530, Prashanth Lakshmi Narayanan wrote: > i wish some of you could give me pointers as to what sort of application i >should >choose to develop (keeping the time constraint of 2 weeks in mind) so that i >can >bring out the power of xml. > thanks in advance. Like you I am new to xml and I have been doing very much the same thing. I think there are two directions you can think of for choosing an application: something everybody would find useful or something specific to your company's business. If you choose to go with something specific to your company I, obviously, cannot help, but I have an idea for an application that may have a broad interest. The idea is a resume management and styling application. Let me elaborate. I think an xml resume is useful because it would let you store all the relevant information in ONE document. Sometimes it seems that I have more versions of my resume than there are jobs in the universe. An XML resume would have all your work experience, education, references, skills, publications, personal information, etc. You can tag the information (I was thinking with attributes) as to what type of skill it is or what position it may be relevant for. Once you have this complete document you can create a resume to suit each need using stylesheets. It is a natural example to showcase the usefulness of stylesheets, because resumes have a few typical looks. Most people already copy another resume and substitute their information. It is very easy to set up such a resume and stylesheets (I have an example if you're interested). A full application, however, should be accessible to the general public. Thus I think it should provide authoring that hides the xml. I am thinking about dtd driven authoring. (Are there xml editors that provide this already? You'd think so, but all the ones I've tried are non-validating or crash.) It would be interesting to hear from more experienced members on this list if they think xml resumes will sell (that is, if they will sell managers on xml). Cheers, Ruth. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Ruth Bergman ruth@j... NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mail Stop 301-180 4800 Oak Grove Dr. Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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