XML and Open Source

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XML and Open Source

• Madhu M Kurup,
• Technical Yahoo!,
• Yahoo India Web Service Pvt. Ltd.

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What / Why XML?

• eXtensible Markup Language
• Structuring Data,
• HTML/Text,
• Verbose,
• Family,
• Licence Free,
• Plaform Independent
• http//www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points
• Proprietary File Formats and Open Source

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Terminologies

• DTD Document Type Definition
• XSL eXtensible Stylesheet Language
• XSLT XSL Translator
• DOM Document Object Model
• SAX Simple API to XML

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Who uses XML?

• Who uses XML?
• Office Suites
• Mozilla
• Jabber
• Enhydra
• Cocoon
• USAGE TODAY!!!!

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Apache and XML

• http//xml.apache.org
• Xerces
• Xalan
• Cocoon
• SOAP
• Batik

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Products

• Xalan / Xerces
• Java / C / C / Perl /. COM
• Modern implementation
• Cocoon
• Java web environment
• Ties Xalan Xerces togther
• View .XML files

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OpenOffice

• History
• Current Status
• Demo
• File Format - JAR

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Details

• Meta.xml - Author
• Styles.xml - Types
• Content.xml - Data
• Settings.xml - Doc/View
• META-INF/manifest.xml
• Pictures/ - Images
• Dialogs/ - Dialogs
• Basic/ - Macros

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Conclusion

• Importance of XML
• Ease of Use
• Pure Open Source Implementation

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Links

• http//www.w3.org/
• http//xml.apache.org/
• http//www.ucc.ie/xml/
• http//www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/xslfaq.html
• http//xml.org/
• http//www.xmlsoftware.com/
• http//www.oasis-open.org/cover/
• http//xml.openoffice.org/