23 posts tagged “xml”

Site Map
In general, there are two types of sitemaps:

1. The first type of sitemap is a HTML page listing the pages of your site - often by section - and is meant to help users find the information they need.
2. The second type are XML Sitemaps - usually called Sitemaps, with a capital S - are a way for you to give search engines more information about your site.

Site Map Index
If you have a lot of pages and only some change frequently then a sitemapindex file is useful

You can list the URLs that change frequently in a small number of Sitemaps and then use the lastmod tag in your Sitemap index file to identify those Sitemap files. Search engines can then incrementally crawl only the changed Sitemaps.

See http://www.sitemaps.org/faq.php#faq_submitting_changes

This IBM developer works article discusses what you need to know to make your Web site part of the Semantic Web. It starts with a discussion of the problems the Semantic Web tries to solve and then moves to the technologies involved, such as Resource Description Framework (RDF), Web Ontology Language (OWL), and SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL). You'll see how the Semantic Web is layered on top of the existing Web. It then covers some issues that you want to know about when you plan a new Web site and also gives specific examples of how to use technologies like RDFa and Microformats to enable your existing Web site to become a part of the Semantic Web.

http://www.openxmlcommunity.org/
We believe that Open XML can help spark an explosion of innovation and investment, which will bring great benefits for customers and the broad ecosystem, in the years to come. We support Open XML becoming an ISO standard.

http://openxmldeveloper.org/
Announced March 21, 2006, the Open XML Formats Developer Group was initially founded by 40 organizations from around the world to provide a technical forum for developers who are interested in using the Ecma International-developed Office Open XML file formats. Membership in the community is open to anyone free of charge to enable broad development with the formats, regardless of platform. Below are further details on the community’s goals, developers who are involved in working with the Office Open XML formats, and quotes about the value of the community and the formats.

Apache Velocity Project About Velocity

Velocity is a Java-based template engine. It permits anyone to use a simple yet powerful template language to reference objects defined in Java code.

When Velocity is used for web development, Web designers can work in parallel with Java programmers to develop web sites according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) model, meaning that web page designers can focus solely on creating a site that looks good, and programmers can focus solely on writing top-notch code. Velocity separates Java code from the web pages, making the web site more maintainable over its lifespan and providing a viable alternative to Java Server Pages (JSPs) or PHP.

See also

• http://velocity.apache.org/anakia/devel/
  
• http://velocity.apache.org/texen/devel/
• http://velocity.apache.org/docbook/
• http://velocity.apache.org/dvsl/devel/

Xcerion Internet Operating System/3 (XIOS/3) the clean, carefree, zero-footprint XML-based OS, running within the browser. Since the OS and its applications executes in the browser it also works offline.

The Internet OS boots itself (takes around 3 seconds) and runs in the primary memory of the computer. As soon as the browser is shut down, the OS disappears from the computer.

Using XIOS/3 you never has to think about installing patches, updates or new versions of software again.

The OS updates itself and you can access your applications and documents from any Internet connected computer.

To receive the latest news on Xcerion sign up and apply for a BETA account.

"Xcerion has a possibility to beat both Microsoft and Google to the punch by delivering the world’s first 'cloud' Web OS" according to their blog @ http://xidezone.com/

widget-configuration.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<widget id="123" root="aboutme">
 <name>aboutme</name>
    <config>
        <version type="string" checkState="true">0.1</version>
        <title>aboutme</title>
        <displayName>aboutme</displayName>
        <description>A discussion board in which people can post topics and replies.</description>
        <isMozzle type="number">1</isMozzle>
        <isFirstOrderFeature type="number">1</isFirstOrderFeature>
        <isPermanent type="number">0</isPermanent>
        <isEnabledDefault type="number">1</isEnabledDefault>
    </config>
    <privateConfig>
        <isEnabled/>
    </privateConfig>
</widget>

main.php

<?php xg_header(W_Cache::current('W_Widget')->dir, $title = xg_text('PHOTOS')); ?>
<div id="xg_body">
 <div class="xg_colgroup">
        <div class="xg_3col first-child">
        <h1>ssssssssssssss</h1>
        </div><!--/xg_3col-->
        <div class="xg_1col last-child">
            <?php xg_sidebar(); ?>
        </div><!--/xg_col-->
    </div><!--/xg_colgroup-->
</div><!--/#xg_body-->
<?php xg_footer() ?>

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to non open editors using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping.

Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more.

It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.

You can easily run Inkscape INSIDE a VMware Player Ubuntu virtual machine EVEN if you are not running GNU/Linux directly on your desktop !

W3C QA - Recommended list of DTDs you can use in your Web document

If you search for Web Browser "standards mode", "quirks mode" and doctype, html, xhtml, xml you'll find plenty of information about the "problem" that certain browsers have but little about the "solution" !

I'm still confused but thinking that a solution might just to use PHP instead of HTML and add the following  header to my web pages


<? // if (HTTP_USER_AGENT <> a-bad-browser) echo "<?doctype ...stuff...>" ?>


Before I actually code this in PHP do you think it would work ?

Or do you have a better solution ?

KML is a file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser, such as Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Maps for mobile. KML uses a tag-based structure with nested elements and attributes and is based on the XML standard.

• http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/
• http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tut.html
• http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_21tutorial.html

Is anyone using Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) v1.0 ?

How good useful is it ?

See also

• http://xml.coverpages.org/dita.html
• DocBook.org
• Eliot Kimber: How Did You Decide Between DocBook, DITA, or Custom DTDs?
• "DITA for DocBook: Implementing the Darwin Information Typing Architecture for DocBook." 
• OASIS DocBook TC web site
• DocBook Open Repository Project
• "DocBook XML DTD"