Re: Is there any use for XML in VB (or anywhere else) ?

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From: Jim Carlock (anonymous_at_10.10.com)
Date: 02/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:13:58 -0500

XML is a worldwide public standard, with no licensing requirements.
It is used extensively at Microsoft in the presentation of their
webpages. With it being an open standard and everyone embracing
it and it being wrapped around and with HTML standards, it's a
transitional package. I don't really use it myself, but the standards
are there, and alot of major corporations use it.

Microsoft has embraced it passionately, and you can import XML
packages into just about most other applications.

If you look at Microsoft webpages, you'll get ideas on how it can
be used and where to apply it. XL can save and read documents
in XML format. It makes a really quick and easy way to copy
things from one source to another... such as presentation through
a webpage.

One other comment... it is part of the XHTML language which is
replacing HTML. So good thing to know about. 

-- 
Jim Carlock
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/
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"Alan Silver" <alan-silver@nospam.thanx> wrote in message
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In article <#jIG#IL9DHA.3880@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>, "Jeff Johnson [MVP:
VB]" <i.get@enough.spam> writes
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>"Alan Silver" <alan-silver@nospam.thanx> wrote in message
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>> No, this isn't a troll, it's a genuine question. I've never really
>> bothered looking at XML that much as I couldn't see the point.
>
>I'm looking at rewriting a mail-merge program I have developed in-house to
>make it more template-driven. Instead of inventing my own templating markup
>language and having to wirte a parser for it, I'm going to use XML.
Why do you need XML for this ? If it's just templates then surely you
would have a basic e-mail and just have placeholders for the data.
I have done this for a case-management system I wrote. It produces
letters in Word. I created Word templates and had things like
@CLIENTNAME@ in the template. The VB app did a replace on this and
substituted the client's name.
What would XML do better ? Obviously XML might not be suitable for Word
docs anyway, but I'm interested in the principle.
>I'm with you that the hype about XML still hasn't gone down to managable
>levels.
;-)
Thanx for the reply.
-- 
Alan Silver

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