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RE: Re: XML & Byte Encoded XML
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- Subject: RE: Re: XML & Byte Encoded XML
- From: "Primoz Gabrijelcic" <gabr@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:10:34 +0200
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> Can you recomend any good books? I'm eager to learn XML too, but
> there's that many books around, there's bound to be some duff ones.
Sorry, can't. I learned from the magazines (The Delphi Mag, to be specific)
and web (w3.org). Most useful is maybe the Annotated XML Specification -
http://www.xml.com/axml/axml.html.
But basically, if you don't want to mess with DTD's, namespaces etc, XML is
very simple - you just store data as text
<akey>somedata</akey>
or as an attribute
<alarm at="12:01" do="play"
what="sound1.wav"></akey>
which you can simplify to
<alarm at="12:01" do="play"
what="sound1.wav"/>
And you can nest the data
<alarm>
<at>12:01</at>
<do>play</do>
<what>sound1.wav</wav>
</alarm>
And you can do this in any codepage. Unicode is preferred and you can code
it as UTF8 and achieve character-per-byte compression in western europe
(and
only slightly less than that in slavic languages with a latin script).
Primoz
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