Posted by Rasti | Sep 23rd, 2009
The abbreviation XSLT means EXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations. In other words, XSLT is transformation of XML document styled by XSL (EXtensible Stylesheet Language) into other format, like XHTML.
It might look confusingly at the first sight, but reality is much easier as it seems. Simply said, if you have some XML document, this can be styled by XSL (EXtensible Stylesheet Language) as well as transformed...
Posted by Rasti | May 24th, 2009
SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics and graphical applications in XML. SVG 1.1 is a W3C Recommendation and is the most recent version of the full specification. SVG Tiny 1.2 is a W3C Recommendation, and targets mobile devices.
Posted by Rasti | May 22nd, 2009
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition – December 1999. JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family...
Posted by Rasti | Apr 10th, 2009
DOM is an abbreviation for Document Object Model, a platform and language neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content and structure of documents.
The Document Object Model provides a standard set of objects for representing HTML and XML documents, a standard model of how these objects can be combined, and a standard interface for accessing and manipulating...
Posted by Rasti | Apr 9th, 2009
ECMAScript is a scripting language, standardized by ECMA (European Computer Manufacturers Association) International in the ECMA-262 specification. The language is widely used on the web, and is often confused with JavaScript or JScript, the two major dialects from which ECMAScript was standardized.
As previously said, the ECMA Standard is based on several originating technologies, the most well known being...
Posted by Rasti | Apr 5th, 2009
XHTML is a family of current and future document types and modules that reproduce, subset, and extend HTML 4. XHTML family document types are XML based, and ultimately are designed to work in conjunction with XML-based user agents.
XHTML 1.0 specification is the first document type in the XHTML family. It is a reformulation of the three HTML 4 document types as applications of XML 1.0. It is intended to be used...
Posted by Rasti | Apr 4th, 2009
Extensible Markup Language, abbreviated XML, describes a class of data objects called XML documents and partially describes the behavior of computer programs which process them. XML is an application profile or restricted form of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language. By construction, XML documents are conforming SGML documents.
Website: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/
Posted by Rasti | Apr 3rd, 2009
This specification defines the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the publishing language of the World Wide Web. This specification defines HTML 4.01, which is a subversion of HTML 4. In addition to the text, multimedia, and hyperlink features of the previous versions of HTML (HTML 3.2 and HTML 2.0), HTML 4 supports more multimedia options, scripting languages, style sheets, better printing facilities, and documents...
