Esteemed monks,

I seem to be getting some REALLY good answers to my recent posts, thank you all so very much. But another fish landed belly up no my desk this afternoon. A colleague from Australia got on the phone to see how big he could run up his long distance bill and started telling me of the virtues of XML.

Sheesh, just when I thought I understood all the alphabet soup I get some more. One of my new apps may benefit by being usable on WAP enabled devices. And my colleague is telling me, "oh well, you just gotta go XML, you can't do it any other way".

Now, to be honest, I have never had anything at all to do with XML, but some fast reading this afternoon tells me it is another markup languange (YAML??) which is trasnformable into anything I want. Be it .pdf, HTML, or something WAP compatible.

Any good suggestions as to a book or two I should start reading rapidly?

Any good resources you can point me to on the net?

jdtoronto

In reply to XML as part of the Web app warchest.... by jdtoronto

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