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Re: [paragui-users] using expat
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Teunis Peters |
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Re: [paragui-users] using expat |
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Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:43:43 -0700 (PDT) |
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Dinand Vanvelzen wrote:
> I myself don't have much exp with XML.
> i wonder what it's uses are.
*wide grin*
it's a text-based data transfer format that can store pretty much any kind
of data and provide organizational methods and the like for it. It's a
distant relative of HTML (it's also based on SGML). For efficiency it's
not the fastest (parsing wise) or smallest (space wise) method for
transferring data. But it's "universal" as in a LOT of applications can
work with it - and it's slowly replacing antiquated formats such as
Micro$oft's "DOC" format and the like....
It's also the communications language for .NET if that matters. The
carrier system is (usually) XML/RPC (remote procedural calls encoded in
XML) which are usually handled in a bidirectional web server. Most of the
.NET system as I understand it is a library of language USED with XML.
Anyways if anyone wants a varient version of SDL_WebSrv that supports
XMLRPC just ask *g*. It runs as a seperate thread and coexists rather
nicely with ParaGUI... one of my next projects is to get them
communicating with eachother.
G'day, eh? :)
- Teunis
PS: hope this helped a bit...