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elkid
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 Posted: 07/29/03 - 18:27 Post subject: teach the teacher
Chick in my class just gave an XML v. HTML presentation. Gave it, then asked me to answer the students' questions b/c she didn't know enough about it.
Oh yeah, she's going to be great as a teacher. 
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shelflifers
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Posted: 07/29/03 - 18:34 Post subject:
you teach chickens?
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keltic63
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Posted: 07/29/03 - 18:41 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | you teach chickens? |
and why do they need to know about xml v. html ???
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elkid
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Posted: 07/29/03 - 18:45 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | you teach chickens? |
Oh no - chickens are much higher on the evolutionary scale than these folk.
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Trish
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Posted: 07/29/03 - 19:01 Post subject:
| keltic63 wrote: | | shelflifers wrote: | | you teach chickens? |
and why do they need to know about xml v. html ??? |
Because it is the future 
It removes two constraints which were holding back Web developments:
1. dependence on a single, inflexible document type (HTML) which was being much abused for tasks it was never designed for;
2. the complexity of full SGML, whose syntax allows many powerful but hard-to-program options.
XML allows the flexible development of user-defined document types. It provides a robust, non-proprietary, persistent, and verifiable file format for the storage and transmission of text and data both on and off the Web; and it removes the more complex options of SGML, making it easier to program for.
(Yeah...wanabee geek over here)
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keltic63
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Posted: 07/29/03 - 21:24 Post subject:
| Trish wrote: | | keltic63 wrote: | | shelflifers wrote: | | you teach chickens? |
and why do they need to know about xml v. html ??? |
Because it is the future
It removes two constraints which were holding back Web developments:
1. dependence on a single, inflexible document type (HTML) which was being much abused for tasks it was never designed for;
2. the complexity of full SGML, whose syntax allows many powerful but hard-to-program options.
XML allows the flexible development of user-defined document types. It provides a robust, non-proprietary, persistent, and verifiable file format for the storage and transmission of text and data both on and off the Web; and it removes the more complex options of SGML, making it easier to program for.
(Yeah...wanabee geek over here) |
still doesn't explain why chickens need to know that 
Trish=Geek who doesn't follow jokes
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TimRuns
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Posted: 07/29/03 - 21:55 Post subject:
| keltic63 wrote: | | Trish wrote: | | keltic63 wrote: | | shelflifers wrote: | | you teach chickens? |
and why do they need to know about xml v. html ??? |
Because it is the future
It removes two constraints which were holding back Web developments:
1. dependence on a single, inflexible document type (HTML) which was being much abused for tasks it was never designed for;
2. the complexity of full SGML, whose syntax allows many powerful but hard-to-program options.
XML allows the flexible development of user-defined document types. It provides a robust, non-proprietary, persistent, and verifiable file format for the storage and transmission of text and data both on and off the Web; and it removes the more complex options of SGML, making it easier to program for.
(Yeah...wanabee geek over here) |
still doesn't explain why chickens need to know that
Trish=Geek who doesn't follow jokes |
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 07/30/03 - 09:09 Post subject:
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(Yeah...wanabee geek over here) |
i think it's safe to say you can remove the "wannabe"
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