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On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Sean McGrath wrote: > > >At 01:14 AM 29/09/01 -0500, Imran Rashid wrote: > > > I'm supposed to be giving a brief "intro to XML" talk to a > > technical audience that doesn't know anything about XML. I was hoping I > > could look at some of the presentations the more experienced members of > > this list have given. I know there have been links posted previously, > > but a quick search of the archive didn't turn up much. > > [Tim Bray] > > >What I find works well is to show four slides. The first is > >a sample of HTML, with all the usual HTML problems, unclosed > >tags, the <IMG> element with no end-tag, unquoted attribute > >values, no enclosing tag pair for the whole doc. > > I used to start my XML talks with the old nugget the office > <memo>. > > Then one day I switched to <invoice>. > I also use the <invoice> for a traditional EDI audience. In other presentations I use a <poem> because it is simple and it is easy to contrast an XML poem with a poem tagged in HTML. To show the flexibility of XML, I also show how you can model a house. A house has a mandatory kitchen and living area, optional den, one or more bedrooms and zero or more bathrooms (I was born in West Virginia so bathrooms can be optional |-). I then show how you can inventory the furnishings in each room. I use the house scenario people have complained that XML is too documentcentric. The house scenario proves that it can be a modeling tool as well. Betty /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Betty Harvey, XML Consultant, | Phone: 410-787-9200 FAX: 9830 Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. | harvey@e... | Washington,DC SGML/XML Users Grp URL: http://www.eccnet.com | http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/
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