Is this possible to do with XML?

[leke]

A General Question.
Can someone point me towards a really fundamantal introduction to XM
as I am still not quit sure of its capabilities after reading a few we
pages I searched for. I already know a fair whack about HTML and th
internet.

A Specific Question.
I wanted to build a simple web page that allowed my teacher to edit th
text content on her web page via a HTML Form. I was originally going t
do it like the HTML Form > CGI > some script on my server method.
Is this possible to do with XML without having to write a separat
script to process data in another scripting language
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lek

 

[Igor Podolskiy]

Hi,

A General Question.
Can someone point me towards a really fundamantal introduction to XML
as I am still not quit sure of its capabilities after reading a few web
pages I searched for. I already know a fair whack about HTML and the
internet.

[0] http://www.w3schools.com/

A Specific Question.
I wanted to build a simple web page that allowed my teacher to edit the
text content on her web page via a HTML Form. I was originally going to
do it like the HTML Form > CGI > some script on my server method.
Is this possible to do with XML without having to write a separate
script to process data in another scripting language?

XML == eXtensible *Markup* Language. XML itself is for exchanging,
representing and saving structured data, not for processing (though some
XML-related technologies like XSLT would allow you to do some basic jobs
on processing). It depends on your task whether XML and XML-related
things would be enough for you. Just read [0]. You'll see ;-)

HTH, Igor.

 

[Peter Flynn]

A General Question.
Can someone point me towards a really fundamantal introduction to XML
as I am still not quit sure of its capabilities after reading a few web
pages I searched for. I already know a fair whack about HTML and the
internet.

The XML FAQ is at http://www.ucc.ie/xml

A Specific Question.
I wanted to build a simple web page that allowed my teacher to edit the
text content on her web page via a HTML Form. I was originally going to
do it like the HTML Form > CGI > some script on my server method.
Is this possible to do with XML without having to write a separate
script to process data in another scripting language?

No. XML is a markup language for identifying structured information. It
is not a programming language.

///Peter

 

[leke]

Thanks, those links were very useful
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lek