On 13-Feb-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Great, someone who knows about XML and REBOL! I have just begun
> researching XML and was thinking about how it relates to REBOL. Can
> REBOL be used in place of XML? I would like to hear other's thoughts
> on the matter.
As I see it, XML is a set of rules for generating data files. It is a
bit more ambitious than just "a file format", but that's where it lies.
It is quite similar to the IFF standard proposed by Electronic Arts
(used for instance for Lightwave objects), but in text rather than
binary. In both cases the files have a tree structure.
XML relates well to the Document Object Model for web pages, or to the
structure of a WML deck. (A WML deck is an XML document).
You can parse or create XML files with routines written in Java or
Rebol.
Rebol is a programming language which doesn't really dictate any
particular format for data files, although some might be easier to
handle in Rebol than others.
There is a good book called "XML and Java", covering parsing routines
(classes) etc. I can easily imagine a book called "XML and Rebol", or
"Creating WML, HTML and XML with Rebol".
Regards
--
Don Cox
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