We discussed the lineage of XML in the first article. Here we will talk about a few types of XML of which you'll want to be aware.
XSL – Stands for Extensible Style Language. There are three forms of this. XSLT, or Extensible Style Transformation Language, transforms basic XML into a display format with tables and indices. A main use of XSLT is create HTML pages from your XML documents.
Another form of XSL is XPath, which is basically an XML language that you use to navigate the architecture of an XML document.
The third form of XSL is known as XSL-FO, with the FO meaning Formatting Objects. You use it to determine the layout, pagination, and style of a document to print it. It can be used with many print documents, such as PDFs.
XForms – This is an XML language that is used to gather and submit data entered into a form and return it as an XML document.
XML Query – This is an XML language used to query multiple files for XML data.
SOAP -- This is also known as Simple Object Access Protocol. It is used to communicate between a web page and a web service application when a web page requests a web service.
SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics is an XML language that enables you to display a two-dimensional vector graphic and animations. A vector graphic is an image made using mathematical equations. Because of this they take up less space than traditional images, and are scalable without the loss of image integrity.
SMIL – Synchronized Multimedia Integrated Language is used to create multimedia presentations out of audio, images, text, and video.
Final Words
In our next article we will begin to migrate our data into XML. We will begin by looking at our data and creating a taxonomy for it. We will break our data into different categories and then create a Schema.
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