Re: some notes

[Rhandeev Singh <rhandeev@comp.nus.edu.sg>]

Matt Gushee writes:
> let you know that there's a lot more to XML than making fancy web
> pages.

Well, if somebody put a gun to my head and said "tell me what XML is in
one sentence", I'd blurt out:

XML is a standardised human-readable database definition language with the
ability to describe the "grammatical" structure of the data, so that you
will have an idea of how different components of the data relate to each
other.

To really experience the power of XML, you should examine the EDUML
parsers.

(Some people replace the word "grammatical" with "semantic", but that is
an exaggeration, since the most you are guaranteed to be able to do is to
parse the data given its DTD.)

Rhan.