Talk:Extensible Markup Language
Forum Post
I saw your forum post about your article, and I think the reason why it's looking more like the spec is because the examples you've given are more or less the same, even though they might reference different things.
Allow me to provide a brief example. If I was writing an article about HTML, and I wanted to describe an element, I'd probably say something to the effect that
HTML elements are any property enclosed by a system of "opened" and "closed" tags; such as "<b>" and "</b>". The element bold surrounds the included text, and turned on and off at the points for which you desire bold text. The actual "b" and "/b" are the elements.
Instead of just saying
An element example: <HTML><Head>Text</Head></HTML> The above is an example of the HTML and Head elements.
and using the same code to show the examples. I hope this helps a little. --Robert W King 10:08, 1 June 2007 (CDT)
- Robert, this is not a user page, so when you say "your" above, I have no idea to what individual your remark is addressed. It might be helpful to include a name, or maybe place this remark instead on that user's talk page. It would definitely help if you could provide an external link to the forum article. Otherwise, those of us who find this won't understand the issues. Thanks. Pat Palmer 18:22, 2 June 2007 (CDT)
Date of XML standard
This article states that the XML standard was developed in 1996; I think the actual date might ought to be 1998. This could is mainly a reminder to myself (or someone else interested) to look into that.Pat Palmer 16:59, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
removing the blog link in External Links tab
The blog there now is not particularly insightful, and in fact, seems to me to be prejudicial and opinionated and thus not very helpful. Just removing it, if no one objects (in which case, I'll restore it--but it's so quiet in here, I would be ecstatic if someone came along to argue with me).Pat Palmer 02:07, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
- No probs with removing this one, but can you try to add a better reference? Thanks! --Daniel Mietchen 18:34, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
removing a quote, and archiving it here
The removed quote is: "XML is a W3C markup language derived from SGML (ISO8879-1986) used in a wide variety of applications for the storage and representation of textual data in a consistent, hierarchical, and well-formed structure.[1]" I did not find it illuminating; rather trite and vague, in fact. Keeping it here in case a spot where it would be helpful becomes apparent.
Article title
Should this one be under Extensible Markup Language, with a redirect from XML? --Daniel Mietchen 14:48, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
- Daniel, that would be good. Or, vice versa. But I am not up to date on mechanics of how to move articles. Could you make it happen? Whenever I've tried to move an existing article in the past, I always somehow botched the moving of the metadata pages. Sorry to be so helpless!Pat Palmer 21:54, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
- Done. --Daniel Mietchen 20:36, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
References
- ↑ Bray, Tim, Jean Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Eve Maler, and François Yergeau, eds. "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fourth Edition)." World Wide Web Consortium Recommendations. 29 Sept. 2006. 18 May 2007 <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#sec-intro>.