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By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com Guide to Web Design / HTML since 1997

Poll: Have you ever written anything in XML?

Thursday December 25, 2008

I started working with XML about 7 years ago, and as I go on I find myself doing more and more with XML documents than I ever thought I would. I write two RSS feeds from scratch (as well as maintain several feeds through blogs and other automation), all of my About.com documents are written in XML, and I'm starting to dabble in XML data to drive Ajax Web applications. When I wrote my first XML article, I barely scratched the surface of what was possible. Even now, I feel like I'm missing more than I'm grasping. Have you written anything in XML?

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December 25, 2008 at 10:15 am
(1) Mike says:

I think XML is great even though I have only started using it. I use it mostly for my AJAX functions and I am going to start having my PHP code generate the XML needed based on data in a database. Either way you do things knowing XML is a good thing that I would recomend to anyone. Merry Christmas! :-)

December 25, 2008 at 1:01 pm
(2) Cassius says:

Actually, XML is very nice to use for tabular data. It can be displayed very easily and can be laid out using CSS just so.
But it’s not a general purpose tool; I would never think of using XML for what HTML is good for.

December 26, 2008 at 7:17 am
(3) Maine-iac says:

XML is definitely on my ‘to learn’ list :)

December 30, 2008 at 9:58 pm
(4) Starrpoint says:

I have been reading your newletter to try and learn to maintain a website. And I have found much of it helpful. But I have to admit, reading this article I haven’t a clue what is being talked about! LOL! I have some more reading to do.

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