On 21 Jan 2001, 9:11, Soundara Rajan wrote:
> A young student wishes to know about what we can do
> with XML and SOAP and what segment we can target using
> these.
XML is the abbreviation for Extensible Markup Language, a specification
developed by the W3C. XML is a pared-down version of SGML, designed
especially for Web documents. It allows designers to create their own
customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and
interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.
Whether XML eventually supplants HTML as the standard Web formatting
specification depends a lot on whether it is supported by future Web
browsers. Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 handles XML, but
renders it as CSS, and Mozilla (Netscape) is still in experimenting
with XML support.
References:
(1) Chapter 14 of the XML Bible: XSL Transformations
http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible/updates/14.html
(2) Internet.com's Web Developer XML page:
http://www.webdeveloper.com/xml/
(3) w3.org's XML page
http://www.w3.org/XML/
(4) xml.com
http://www.xml.com/
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SOAP, the Simple Object Access Protocol, provides a way for
applications to communicate with each other over the Internet,
independent of platform. Unlike DCOM's IIOP, SOAP piggybacks a DOM onto
HTTP (port 80) in order to penetrate server firewalls, which are
usually configured to accept port 80 and port 21 (FTP ) requests.
SOAP relies on XML to define the format of the information and then
adds the necessary HTTP headers to send it.
SOAP was developed by Microsoft, DevelopMentor, and Userland Software
and has been proposed to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF ) as
a standard
References:
(1) develop.com's SOAP FAQ
http://www.develop.com/soap/soapfaq.htm
(2) An Article and resources at Microsoft's Developer site:
http://www.microsoft.com/mind/0100/soap/soap.asp
(3) An IETF draft of the proposed SOAP:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-deason-sip-soap-00.txt
Alan
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