On Sunday 08 July 2001 10:25 am, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
> I still can't see use for XML on palm... Would anyone care to point out one
> thing that would actually benefit, opposed to doing something in a
> different way, the users?
XML is used for rss/rdf headlines from thousands of web sites. If you write
a simple XML parser you can then get a nice screenful of wmheadlines-style
articles updated throughout the day.
It's also useful for interchange of information, mostly because once you have
an XML parser, you then only need to write a small amount of code to extract
the information in a very robust way; i.e. element order and heiarchy is
easily obtained.
That makes it very flexible in cut & paste situations, or at times when you
want to shrink down an XML file which has too much information. You can
often optimize XML files for character count if that is important; i.e. </>
endtags, scrap unneeded elements, get rid of whitespace, and other stuff.
Mostly I'd say that wireless benefits from XML. I use it all the time on the
Blackberry; headlines, stock quotes. The wmheadlines package also uses the
same data so it is pretty awesome being able to pick up the same article
listings from my PC as well as pager, such that when I get tired of reading
an article on the pager I just go to the PC and it is in wmheadlines.
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