XML has huge advantages in that XML allows you to specify your data in ways
that make sense for your data. Instead of <td>9053</td>, you can have
<streetnumber>9053</streetnumber>, for example, and you now know that you
can't use that 9053 for, say, the phone number.
I'm using XML to preserve structured data, running it through a
transformation as needed to translate it into a presentation form. See
http://epesh.com/transformtags.jsp and http://epesh.com/changelog.jsp for
examples and explanation (and a mechanism to do it with, for that matter.)
>From: Daniel Lynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and
> reference <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Any views on the Java Web market in the US ???
>Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 20:24:38 -0500
>
>I seem to have run across the same trend... I've played with a ot of the
>things that
>were supposedly going to "replace Java or JSP" (PHP for example). I like
>the
>alternatives, some things they do better than Java, some not, but I don't
>see Java
>having any sort of problems stay9ing afloat.
>
>Also, since XML seems to be such a big catch word recently in a lot of
>dynamic page
>contexts, would anyone be willing to explain what some of the main
>differences are
>between XML and HTML? I looked at some XML stuff and it seems a lot easier
>to code
>in, but it also seems to lack some of the definite form and detail that
>HTML has
>(which really worries me)... is there any truth to that observation? Thanks
>in
>advance..
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