XML: What is it?

[ajames]

I have been thinking for a while now...What is XML for and where might i learn to use it?

[Brandoe85]

I'm not really good at explaining things, but heres a good link:

XML

[ajames]

So it's useless then?

[mendhak]

What makes you say that?

It's a textual format for representing your own data. So that it can be used by your applications, or by other applications.

[sciguyryan]

So it's useless then?

Actually quite the oppoisite, you would be mamazed by how many applications use the XML type formatting.

Ever heared of RSS? That uses XML.

Also, the new MS Office products also use it

its a very useful langguage and its power is growing as more and more applications addopt the XML standard, there has even been a release of HTML that is complient with XML, called XHTML

Cheers,

RyanJ

[kaffenils]

Actually quite the oppoisite, you would be mamazed by how many applications use the XML type formatting.

Ever heared of RSS? That uses XML.

And XHTML is also XML.

[sciguyryan]

And XHTML is also XML.

Yup, I said that too

Cheers,

Ryanj

[kaffenils]

Yup, I said that too

Cheers,

Ryanj

Me blind.

[sciguyryan]

I found a good link, have a look here: http://www.topxml.com/


Cheers,

RyanJ

[ajames]

Is it possible to put it into VB?

[mendhak]

You can USE it with VB. There's the XMLPath class, XMLDocument class, and a few others which are pretty useful. Also, in web services when returning objects, they are returned in XML format.