Week 10 Readings

• XML = Extensible Markup Language
• based on SGML "Standard Generalized Markup Language" also known as "Sounds great, maybe later."
• does the browser necessarily need to know "what the information is" in a line of code? This sounds like technology that will become intelligent... like in Terminator... just kidding, but I still do not see the point.
• Ah wait I see. We did it all for international postal codes...

• You see this is where things get complicated. As human beings, we are always making everything more complicated by messing with them. Why do we do this? Because we want to make things better but we make them worse instead.
• It's always nice when a tutorial tells me that something is relatively simple. It makes me feel a lot better about XML.
• So if I understand what is going on here correctly, writing a page in XML makes it easier to "search" that page later on or for someone else to search it.
• Even though I read both of the XML tutorials, I am still lost with the XML Schema...