Perhaps the most explosive technological trend over the past two
years has been blogging. As a matter of fact, it's been reported
that the number of blogs during that time has grown from 100,000 to
4.8 million-with no end to this growth in sight. What's the
technology that makes blogging tick? The answer is RSS--a format
that allows bloggers to offer XML-based feeds of their content.
It's also the same technology that's incorporated into the websites
of media outlets so they can offer material (headlines, links,
articles, etc.) syndicated by other sites. As the main technology
behind this...
In Microsoft's Office 2003, users experience the merger of the
power of the classic Office suite of applications with the fluidity
of data exchange inherent in XML. With XML at its heart, the new
version of Microsoft's desktop suite liberates the information
stored in millions of documents created with Office software over
the past fifteen years, making it available to a wide variety of
programs. Office 2003 XML offers an in-depth exploration of
the relationship between XML and Office 2003, examining how the
various products in the Office suite both produce and consume XML.
Developers will...
Among the many different approaches to "templating" with Perl--such
as Embperl, Mason, HTML::Template, and hundreds of other lesser
known systems--the Template Toolkit is widely recognized as one of
the most versatile. Like other templating systems, the Template
Toolkit allows programmers to embed Perl code and custom macros
into HTML documents in order to create customized documents on the
fly. But unlike the others, the Template Toolkit is as facile at
producing HTML as it is at producing XML, PDF, or any other output
format. And because it has its own simple templating language,
templates...
