a human-friendly, cross language, Unicode based data serialization language designed around the common native data types of agile programming languages. It is broadly useful for programming needs ranging from configuration files to Internet messaging to object persistence to data auditing.
What Topic Maps Do
When XML is introduced into an organization it is usually used for one of two purposes: either to structure the organization's documents or to make that organization's applications talk to other applications. These are both useful ways of using XML, but they will not help anyone find the information they are looking for. What changes with the introduction of XML is that the document processes become more controllable and can be automated to a greater degree than before, while applications can now communicate internally and externally. But the big picture, something that collects the key concepts in the organization's information and ties it all together, is nowhere to be found.
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A reintroduction to XML with an emphasis on character encoding...has things to say about encoding that you almost certainly either don't know at all, or haven't yet fully grasped.
XML library containing a comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of articles, tips, tutorials, and standards. XML protocols. XML tutorials for beginners and advanced developers.
XML library containing a comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of articles, tips, tutorials, and standards. XML protocols. XML tutorials for beginners and advanced developers.
XBEL, or the XML Bookmark Exchange Language, is an open XML standard for sharing Internet URIs, also known as bookmarks (or favorites in Internet Explorer). An example of XBEL use is the XBELicious application, which stores Del.icio.us bookmarks in XBEL format. The Galeon, Konqueror, Arora and Midori web browsers use XBEL as the format for storing user bookmarks. XBEL was created by the Python XML Special Interest Group [1] "to create an interesting , fun project which was both useful and would demonstrate the Python XML processing software which was being developed at the time," [2].