XML languages

Do you use them?

[pcguru333]

Hi ho web slingers

(I admit that was cheesey)

Recently reading up on XML and I am curious as to what XML languages you find yourselves using and at what frequency do you use them. SO many are available and I want to FOCUS my energies.

Listed below is a list of XML languages I have heard of, add to it if you know any others:

XHTML (of course) MathML, SMIL, SVG, RDF, XSL, BML, XUL, VoiceXML, SOAP, UIML, and WML

Thanks

[nwilson]

XPath
XSLT
XForms

maybe more of standards rather than 'languages' but there you go ;)

Nick

[pcguru333]

Right XSLT (for XSL Transformations) is related to XSL as is XSL-FO (XSL Flow Objects, like Cascading Style Sheets right?)

[nwilson]

Yeah, really neat technology but you need to set up your php to use sablotron or something to parse it.

You can have your text marked up as something like this:

<forum type="really cool">
<name>Webmaster world</name>
<owner>brett</owner>
</forum>

and then parse it using xslt to display it as html, text, or whatever depending on whatever decision making logic you choose to implement.

I'm trying to persuede my host company to recompile so that I can store my articles in docbook (hey there's anther!) format and either display as html or text for emailing the articles.

Very exciting stuff if you like that kind of thing ;)

Nick

[lorax]

I'm in the process of dabbling with XML, XHTML, RDF, and RPC. Thinking about SOAP.

[SmallTime]

RSS, arguably the most used.

[txbakers]

I'm playing with XML, SOAP,XSLT and other web services related technologies.

I found a program called xmlspy which looks very good.

[joshie76]

XSL-FO: The FO stands for Formatting Objects.

I'm using a whole lot of XSLT to separate the presentation from the business of dealing with the data - it's a dream having written reams and reams of tangled ASP. SOAPS just round the corner as we go more and more .NET.