CIT 2005 - WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2005

Academic Web Languages Using XML

Instructor: David Sher
Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am
Location: Science II - 134
Rating: Intermediate

XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. Namely, it is a language for creating web languages. The resulting languages display on common web browsers like Internet Explorer and Netscape. For example, figure 1 contains a simple website that displays an applet. Figure 2 shows the complexity of the HTML translation of this simple site.

Well designed XML languages are easy to use. The 2003 version of Word edits XML structures directly. Our workshop will demonstrate several XML languages for academic website design such as a data display language and an XML language for bibliographies and resumes. We will work together to design simple websites using language definition files developed by the author.

The author will distribute disks with the translation files and examples to the participants. The participants will be able to create their own websites quickly and conveniently with XML. Participants should bring some data sets they may want to display or bibliographic references they would like to display on the web.