Presenters
Rick
Ells
Larry
Gales
Summary
Only 12 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee was trying to convince a
few skeptical colleagues that the HTML-based web might be
something of significance. Today the (HTML-based) web moves
Wall Street and the Stock Market, and techno-geeks have
almost become respectable!
Even as it succeeds, however, the Web is changing.
Simply making information available
used to be sufficient. Now we want interactive pages,
reliable information transfer, repurposing information for
multiple uses, and much more. HTML, with its simple
formatting controls, is not capable of meeting these new
needs.
To address HTML's limitations, W3C
developed a new "language for writing languages" called
XML.
First released in April 1997, XML is deceptively simple yet
incredibly powerful. XML is having a profound effect on
almost all new Web technologies.
In this class we discuss the capabilities of
XML, why it is important, and how XML documents are
created, edited, transformed, and displayed.
Web Location
http://www.washington.edu/computing/training/540/
