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Falcata

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From: Michiana

Registered: 2008-01-23

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Learning XML

Does anyone know of some good learning resources for XML?

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Davigetto

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From: In your mind

Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 266

Re: Learning XML

Well, XML is a Markup Language used very often as a DataBase Managing. Otherwise, is you want to learn how using it, you have to follow the GOLD step:

Visit google, or, if you feel lazy, visit XML page of wikipedia and search in the External Links a possible link who redirects you to a Manual of XML.
   
Nevertheless, XML is an easy language to learn if you have a minimal notions of HTML and you have a good manual in your hand.

Greeting and Good Luck!

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Falcata

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From: Michiana

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 501

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Re: Learning XML

Okay, thanks.  Also, does anyone know of any good books on XML?

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wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: Learning XML

What do you actually want to learn? The syntax can be thaught by the wikipedia page, it's pretty simple. Where and how do you want to use it?

Falcata

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From: Michiana

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 501

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Re: Learning XML

I've been working off and on, trying to make a computer RPG.  The XML would be for handling a lot of the game's data files (monsters, spells, equipment, etc)

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hennes

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Registered: 2008-03-31

Posts: 50

Re: Learning XML

Well, I guess you'll use some XML lib for that. Like libxml when you're coding in C/C++. You only have to worry about the lib's API then. It will create proper syntax for you.

fatlarry

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Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 31

Re: Learning XML

XML is almost useless without the XSLT and the rendering engines behind it, that allow you to present your XML files as html, word doc, pdf, and what not ... 

The first guys to do it were Microsoft, with MSXML, in the times of IE 5 or later- they used Javascript or whatever they call it for their XSLT engine.

Mozilla was quick to catch up, and Firefox sports some xml parsing capabilities built-in, and even moe intriguing, the posibility to configure itself using XML- style files.

There are some XSLT engines written in Java, others written in C++, and maybe other languages as well (perl, python, ...)

Try to google XSLT (XML StyleSheet Language Transformation ?), FO (formatting-objects), xalan, xercess, you get the point ...

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-23

Posts: 450

Re: Learning XML

W3Schools has a whole bunch of XML-tutorials, should be enough to get you started.

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From: Oost vlaanderen, Belgium

Registered: 2008-01-13

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Re: Learning XML

O'Reilly-<Learning XML>

Second that, great book, have that one too...
Although, bit lengthy, but very good if you want to go a bit deeper into the subject than first in mind (goes to talk about everything xml related)
You might even catch up on some SGML stuff ^^

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