[Bf-docboard] software tools

[Martin Middleton]

Landis,

An XML file consists of tags and data (for lack of a better term) just like 
an HTML file. You can look at and edit an XML file with any editor (even 
the Windows Notepad). XML is a subset of a larger and more complicated 
language called SGML which has been in use for years. XML is a data 
description language. It is similar to HTML; it's just that it was designed 
to do more than describe web pages. In the same way that HTML describes the 
format a web page, XML describes the format a document. A single XML file 
can describe everything from a one page article to a multi-volume series of 
books (though in the latter case the file would be pretty darn huge). The 
big difference is that the document output can be converted to HTML and 
displayed as a web page, converted to a PDF file, or numerous other 
formats, all from the same XML file.

Hope this helps!

At 04:31 AM 3/20/2004, you wrote:
>Luke Stodola (or anyone else that can help),
>
>Ok, I dont comment in the board much anymore because I have come to the
>conclusion that I do not understand anything at all regarding all of this
>XML and docbook talk!! I have asked before and recieved help from some but
>still nothing sticks for me. I would really like to help out but man am I
>behind on all of this. Its just that I think that I can do more damage for
>the community using XML rather than toying around with the creation of web
>and PDF based tutorials. As far as I understand you are all working in some
>type of language (XML)which is very flexible and can ultimately end up as a
>web tutorial or even part of the official Blender docs....let me know if I
>have this much right. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. I am
>just trying to get up to speed so that I can help the community.
>
>Thanks again.
>
>Cheers,
>Landis
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