Re: [paragui-users] using expat

[Dinand Vanvelzen]

Tnx. for the info Teunis.
i'm using HawkNL from phil myself for all network
so i planned to hook the website simply to the MySQL db using PHP.
i integrated webservers before but nowadays i prefer to keep things
seperated so i can also seperate the traffic reducing bandwidth usage.

GreeTz
DV

----- Original Message -----
From: "Teunis Peters" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [paragui-users] using expat


> 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...
>
>
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