UK psychologists think Bloggers are the Unhealthiest People according to an article at NewScientist.com
This is a sentence from the article:
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"We expected diary keepers to have some benefit, or be the same, but they were the worst off," says Elaine Duncan of the Glasgow Caledonian University. "In fact, you're probably much better off if you don't write anything at all," she adds.
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Click to read the rest of the article at NewScientist.com
I guess that's why I feel sick today :)
While I was doing a research for my new XML project, I have come up with a list of Free XML Tutorials. I will make a list of the Free XML Tutorials, so if somebody needs those, it would be a clean list of valuable XML Tutorials sites.
FREE XML TUTORIALS :
I will add more Free XML Tutorials, and also I will create a list of Free XSL Tutorials. Please send me your Free XML XSL Tutorials to be added on this list.
What is XML ?:
XML is the Extensible Markup Language. It is designed to improve the functionality of the Web by providing more flexible and adaptable information identification.
It is called extensible because it is not a fixed format like HTML (a single, predefined markup language). Instead, XML is actually a `metalanguage' —a language for describing other languages—which lets you design your own customized markup languages for limitless different types of documents. XML can do this because it's written in SGML, the international standard metalanguage for text markup systems (ISO 8879).
What is XML for ?:
XML is intended `to make it easy and straightforward to use SGML on the Web: easy to define document types, easy to author and manage SGML-defined documents, and easy to transmit and share them across the Web.'
It defines `an extremely simple dialect of SGML which is completely described in the XML Specification. The goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML.'
`For this reason, XML has been designed for ease of implementation, and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML'
XML is not just for Web pages: it can be used to store any kind of structured information, and to enclose or encapsulate information in order to pass it between different computing systems which would otherwise be unable to communicate.
Why is XML such an important development ?:
It removes two constraints which were holding back Web developments:
- dependence on a single, inflexible document type (HTML) which was being much abused for tasks it was never designed for;
- the complexity of full SGML, whose syntax allows many powerful but hard-to-program options.
XML allows the flexible development of user-defined document types. It provides a robust, non-proprietary, persistent, and verifiable file format for the storage and transmission of text and data both on and off the Web; and it removes the more complex options of SGML, making it easier to program for.
Reference: http://www.ucc.ie/xml/
Title is little bit confusing. Here's my question, I will start working on a new project. I have an ASP Script which basically lets the user choose the filters, queries the database and brings a web page which lets you choose the format (spread sheet, txt file, or web view). On this script everything is written in ASP including the creation of Excel spread sheet files. I would like to work on an XML which will create the excel file and I will put this XML file in the page with an include, so it will be easier for other programmers to integrate the XML for the future projects. I have made some research about XML and spread sheet files. Mostly the results are about converting a file/input to excel etc. How should I start with this project? Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance