Re: [paragui-users] using expat

[Teunis Peters]

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...