Saturday, March 01, 2003

Getting Started with XML   (Eric Morgan) Eric Morgan is one of those few talented individuals who can make a technical topic understandable to the rest of us. This 73-page Adobe Acrobat file is no different, in that he simply and Eric Morgan is one of those few talented individuals who can make a technical topic understandable to the rest of us. This 73-page Adobe Acrobat file is no different, in that he simply and effectively explains the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and related standards. Along the way you learn Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and even a bit of XSLT. At the end, Morgan highlights some XML tag sets of particular importance to libraries (XHTML, TEI, EAD, DocBook, RDF, and OAI-PMH). Anyone has been convinced of the importance of XML to libraries, but has yet to make the jump into  larning the nitty-gritty details, should give this a try. This document was created in support of a workshop sponsored by the Infopeople Project of California.   (Current Cites) Also available from the front page as an HTML file, a ZIP file, and a .tar file. 4:55:50 PM    comment []

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