HTML becoming old school?

Chooco · February 28th, 2002, 06:42 AM

i heard from this kid who's dad is a tech wizard that HTML is going out of style and some thing called XML is taking over........ is this true?

gotta know if i should stop learning something that will become old school like pascal

OuTpaTienT · February 28th, 2002, 07:12 AM

You can read about it at XML.org

Here's the FAQ page: http://www.xml.org/xml/xmlfaq.shtml

(notice that it's presented to you using HTML....)

Chooco · February 28th, 2002, 07:16 AM

lol

narzy · February 28th, 2002, 07:22 AM

welcome to the world of standerization. err rather the world of XML, probably one of the next big lanuages to hit them web, pure html has been out of style for a wile now, atleast in professional sites, most include atleast one java call, use CSS, or some other file include where the file called is not written in HTML ect...but XML is very much like HTML in alot of ways and learning HTML will benifit you because the transition to XML, is still probably a few years out.

vass0922 · February 28th, 2002, 07:55 AM

ya, a big thing nowadays is generated html... much like this very page

There isn't an HTML becoming old school?.html file sitting on the server

All fed from a database and PHP drives the pages... or you could also use ASP, or a slew of other languages that can do the same job.

I'm starting some xml at work... funky

lol
We're not using it for webpages though, more for storing data w/o a database ... much lighter we just store it in a public folder on MS Exchange so a custom form I'm writing in Outlook 2000 can read the data and put data on a form for the user to see.

Chooco · February 28th, 2002, 09:28 PM

dude what does PHP do anyway? it's one of those language i have no clue what it is used for.

matfz · February 28th, 2002, 10:10 PM

php is something like asp. when there is the <? ?> tag, whatever inside in a program, but the rest, those outside the tag are plain html.

Chooco · February 28th, 2002, 10:19 PM

you mean like < a href........ >?

Praetorian · February 28th, 2002, 10:41 PM

More like <?php include("footer.inc.php"); ?>

That just displays the contents of a file on the page that the command is on.

storm2k · February 28th, 2002, 10:54 PM

xml is kind of an organization extension to html... it provides a document organization structure... actually it's a lot like the tex language for li/unix... provides a frame structure for document formatting...