This article introduces you to XML, telling why it was created and explaining basic syntax. Knowing how to develop XML applications is a hot skill. The content of this workshop is geared towards the use of XML for biological information.
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These pages are a version of the notes for the above BCS Professional Awareness Course given during May 1999. The XML Bible is a comprehensive introduction to using XML for Web page design. It shows you how to write XML documents, validate them with DTDs, design CSS and XSL style sheets for those documents, convert them to HTML, and publish them on Web servers for the world to read. XPointers XML is the wave of the future. Writing The XML Bible not only taught me about XML itself.