#27647
XML Architecture for Customized User Assistance
To create a specific deliverable, you collect all of the relevant topics and wrap information around them. A printed book, for instance, contains topics grouped into chapters along with front and back matter.
O'Keefe, Sarah S. WritersUA (2005). Articles>Information Design>Help>XML
#23599
An XML Architecture for Technical Documentation: The Darwin Information Typing Architecture 
DITA is an architecture for creating topicoriented, information-typed content that can be reused and single-sourced in a variety of ways. It is also an architecture for creating new information types and describing new information domains, allowing groups to create very specific, targeted document type definitions using a process called specialization, while at the same time reusing common output transforms and design rules. We discuss several methods that can be used to extend DITA’s basic topic types.
Day, Don, Erik Hennum, John Hunt, Michael Priestley and David Schell. STC Proceedings (2003). Articles>Information Design>Metadata>XML
#29585
XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. XML is used to aid the exchange of data. The language makes it possible to define data in a structured way. XML tags are not predefined like HTML. XML lets you create your own unique tags that are meaningful for your data, hence the use of the term 'extensible.'
Zaman, Mamun. Dev Articles (2007). Articles>Information Design>Standards>XML
#19458
The World Wide Web Consortium, the standards body for all web technologies, describes XML as a “method for putting structured data in a text file” (See www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points.. That’s accurate, but doesn’t really describe what XML is.
Manning, Steve. STC Proceedings (2001). Articles>Information Design>XML
#22746
After spending a week of toil and labor in the Semantic Web mines, I've returned to the surface, to the sweetness and light of the XML developer community. And what do I find but a crisis about the XML part of the technical book publishing industry, as well as a monster thread about character entity names.
Clark, Kendall Grant. XML.com (2003). Articles>Publishing>Information Design>XML
#22805
XML Can Go to H***: One Designer's Experience with the "Future of Publishing"
Ask any guru about the next frontier in publishing and you'll hear the snazzy-sounding letters 'XML.' But according to Susan Glinert, who bears XML battle scars, the future is not bright. It boggles the mind that anyone bothered to invent a publishing solution that plunges both right- and left-brained people into absolute chaos.
Glinert, Susan. Creative Pro (2004). Articles>Information Design>XML
#29978
XML became an integral part of Microsoft's strategy around the time of Internet Explorer 4. IE4 was an XML-aware browser. As well as displaying HTML documents, it could also display XML documents through an inbuilt XML parser. Another part of IE4 was something known as the XML DSO (Data Source Object). The XML DSO allows you to manipulate primitive XML 'data islands' by binding (or attaching) the XML data to HTML presentation elements. The XML elements within Internet Explorer continue to be improved and added to with every new IE release.
Self, Tony. HyperWrite (2006). Articles>Information Design>XML>Web Browsers
#30114
XML will change the way you develop and integrate your databases.
Trytten, Chris. FileMaker Advisor (2002). Articles>Information Design>Databases>XML
#31867
Don't let expectations or excitement about XML develop into a virulent strain of XML fever.
Wilde, Erik and Robert J. Glushko. Communications of the ACM (2008). Articles>Information Design>XML
#26877
XML in Firefox 1.5, Part 1: Overview of XML Features
The open source Firefox Web browser continues to grow in popularity. Users like the security and convenience features it offers. Developers like the Firefox attention to standards compliance, inherited from its Mozilla roots. The most recent version, Firefox 1.5, comes with many features for XML developers, including XML parsing, XHTML, CSS, XSLT, SVG, XML Events in JavaScriptâ„¢, and XForms. Additional third-party extensions provide even more XML support. In this article, Uche Ogbuji provides an overview of XML features in Firefox 1.5.
Ogbuji, Uche. IBM (2006). Articles>Information Design>Web Design>XML
#26876
XML in Firefox 1.5, Part 2: Basic XML Processing
This second article in the series, "XML in Firefox 1.5," focuses on basic XML processing. Firefox supports XML parsing, Cascading Stylesheets (CSS), and XSLT stylesheets.
Ogbuji, Uche. IBM (2006). Articles>Information Design>Web Design>XML
#29979
Maybe XML is more like a carcinogen. We don't notice it's there, but we're still getting exposed to it. In ever-increasing doses. But unlike a carcinogen, XML is not bad for our health; in fact, it has many life-enhancing properties. Well, work-enhancing properties.
HyperWrite (2006). Articles>Information Design>Standards>XML
#25981
XML Repositories: An Idea Whose Time has Finally Come
This white paper discusses the role of an XML repository into today’s enterprise infrastructure. Virtually every database and repository provide some degree of XML support; however, there are important distinctions between support for XML as a data type and the role of a repository whose architecture and operations are optimized to support the broad family of XML recommendations and standards. Specifically, this white paper will explore: The nature and extent of XML use across the enterprise, cost and quality of service implications of an infrastructure with, and without, an XML repository, the evolution of XML repositories from both a technology and a market segment perspective, criteria to determine when an XML repository would add significant value to an existing infrastructure, and capability and packaging recommendations for XML repository functionality that can be used to evaluate specific offerings.
Holst, Sebastian. Gilbane Report (2004). Articles>Content Management>Information Design>XML
#27953
In this article, gain knowledge about the difference between elements and attributes in XML, as well as differences in character sets. The author shows the benefits and drawbacks of using XML components and why you should carefully consider your character set when developing your software.
Youssef, Michael. ASP Free (2004). Articles>Information Design>XML>ASP
#20389
In this XML tutorial you will learn what XML is and the difference between XML and HTML. You will also learn how to start using XML in your applications.
#27082
So, your company has decided to implement XML. You are tasked with figuring out exactly how, when, and why. For starters, you should find out what XML is and what you can do with it. This tutorial serves to explain the basics of XML documents. Once you understand what they are, it can help you know the how, when, and why. XML fits into a lot of places. It can replace, or work with, other technologies. It can be used instead of, or to supplement, scripts. It can work with databases, or on its own to store readable content. Before you dive into what XML might do, it can help if you learn a little more about it.
Bright Path Solutions (2005). Articles>Information Design>XML
#25039
XML: The Answer to Everything?
This article weighs the pros and cons of XML for some applications (publishing), and explores why it is the best possible solution for many programming and publishing needs.
Ethier, Kay and Scott Abel. Free Software Magazine (2005). Articles>Information Design>XML
#18209
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is often touted as revolutionary breakthrough in information management. A more realistic description is that XML is one very good tool among many used to handle information. It's true that XML could potentially save your company a great deal of money—but that depends on your circumstances. In some cases, migration to XML will be expensive. You need to know if you'll get a reasonable return on your investment. The purpose of this paper is to help you ask the right questions.
#27660
XQuery speeds up the process of finding information contained in an XML document, which is very handy when dealing with long XML documents. This article, the first of two parts, will teach you how to write XQuery expressions.
Dev Articles (2006). Articles>Information Design>Databases>XML
#27661
XQuery speeds up the process of finding information contained in an XML document -- which is very handy when dealing with long XML documents. This article, the second of two parts, will teach you how to write XQuery expressions.
Dev Articles (2006). Articles>Information Design>Databases>XML
#27949
XSL Transformations using ASP.NET
XSL Transformation is a technology introduced by the W3C to simplify the tasks of presenting and formatting XML data. In this article, Harish Kamath demonstrates the capabilities of the .NET platform to transform XML documents using XSLT style sheets.
Kamath, Harish. ASP Free (2004). Articles>Information Design>XSL>ASP
#28923
Review: Zen and the Art of Information Architecture
New Web 2.0 interaction design can offer a lot of new suggestions for easier interactions, good use of white space and other glaring design solutions to the typically very busy space of information architecture. But, if you practice IA well, including some new Web 2.0 techniques, you can begin to create mental space as well as white space. Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design, a new New Riders book by Robert Hoekman, Jr., is a great place to find out how much mental space can be offered by your systems.
Evans, Clifton. Boxes and Arrows (2007). Articles>Reviews>Information Design
#18996
Електронната vs. Книга-Печат и Хипертекст
Първата вълна на масирани ХТ изследвания се появи през 1992. Джордж Ландоу написа Конвергенцията на технологията и съвременната критическа теория; Дейвид Болтър - Писменото пространство; Майрън Тъман - Оnline грамотността. Опиращи се на различни предходни теоретични източници в спектъра от Дерида до инженери като Теодор Нелсън, и тримата поддържат гледището, че ХТ се заражда като идея в ранни литературнотеоретични работи.
Ivanov, Zhivko. FortuneCity (1999). (Bulgarian) Articles>Information Design>Hypertext
#27170
四个国家，四种未来：Tom Klinkowstein的地平线项目工作坊
过去的一年半，Tom Klinkowstein在四个国家和一些设计学生举行了一些工作坊的活动，叫做地平线项目，这个项目采用了NASA科学家John Anderson的方法。工作坊在纽约进行了半天，在土耳其伊斯坦布尔进行了两天，在中国上海进行了三天，在印度孟买进行了五天。
Klinkowstein, Tom. uiGarden (2005). (Chinese) Articles>Education>Information Design>Case Studies
#32086
I'm not Technical. Why Should I Bother to Learn DocBook or DITA?
First of all, understand that you don’t have to learn it. Every year more and more toolds come out that help place a layer between you and the native XML. In a few years time you will hardly even realise there is XML underneath.
Technical Writer (2006). Articles>Information Design>DocBook>DITA
