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  1. Jan 2nd, 2002, 09:07 PM #1
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    Is XML a cross between CGI and HTML?

    HTML seems to create static web pages as far as i know and CGI seems to be used for the creation of dynamic content. Other than XML moving to a standardized format does XML fall somewhere in the middle of the two?
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  2. Jan 2nd, 2002, 09:10 PM #2
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    Im trying to figure out this whole web server thing and where
    CGI, JSP or XML falls into it. Do all of these fall into the same catergory for serving dynamic content?
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  3. Jan 2nd, 2002, 09:15 PM #3
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    CGI is not a language but any server-side scripting thingy, like PHP, JSP, ASP, etc. JSP you already know . XML, which I haven't formally learned yet, seems to be an ideal way of saving settings, although apparently it can be used for showing data too since the tree in the MSDN library has a .xml extension.
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    CGI is not a language but any server-side scripting thingy, like PHP, JSP, ASP, etc.
    Yes someone explained JSP as inserting Java right into HTML code. So as far as i know that is really scripting. Im just trying to understand if XML is just a standardized version of HTML or if it can create web pages and run on the server side also. If it's just basically used for creating web pages then ill just learn JSP or CGI then.
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    http://www.xml101.com/xml/xml_intro.asp this link pretty much explains it. Thanks Filbert.
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    XML doesn't actually have anything to do with web development at all by itself. You can definitively intregrate it with your web development technology. XML can be used in any place you need a standard method of data presentation or for exchanging data, and the web browser is just a good example of that.
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    Yeah i was quite surprised when i read that. They explained that HTML more or less defines how data is to look and be presented were as XML defines what data actually is.
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  9. Jan 3rd, 2002, 03:49 PM #8
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    In a sense you can use XML to create dynaimic pages. By using XSL you can transform the XML into HTML based on the data in the XML. For instance, XSL has a routine that allows you to loop through each Node in an XML document and format it to HTML.
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