CSC Program

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XML, or extensible markup language, is one of my pet projects at my agency. Basically, it allow you to model any type of data, information, business process, logic, etc, in text. Music, astronomy, DB2, SQL, OLE objects, instant messaging, are all being done or expressed in XML. This makes the data very portable, with no conversions between applications; you just need the ability to render it to the appropriate format, using another XML technology XSL (stylesheets). A message board might look like<br>
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Roman Army<br>
References<br>
Cornu<br>
Richsc<br>
What did they sound like?<br>
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Note it looks a lot like HTML, which is true since they are both subsets of SGML. XML however is extensible, since in HTML the stylesheets and meanings of the tags, eg , are hardwired to the browser.<br>
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I think even historians are getting into XML. Maybe a HistoryXML is out there somewhere.<br>
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