1. Lecturer: Tom Worthington Date: 3/08/00Overhead sheet 1 File: C|\tomw\web\2000\yhtml.ppt YXML? " Why the Extensible Markup Language? Tom WorthingtonTom Worthington FACS Visiting Fellow, Department of Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra This document: http://www.tomw.net.au/2000/yxml.ppthttp://www.tomw.net.au/2000/yxml.ppt Text: http://www.tomw.net.au/2000/yxml.htmlhttp://www.tomw.net.au/2000/yxml.html

2. Lecturer: Tom Worthington Date: 3/08/00Overhead sheet 1 File: C|\tomw\web\2000\yhtml.ppt Publishing electronic information " Electronic document management for internal records - related task is designing & publishing electronic documents. " Overview in:Guidelines for Commonwealth information published in electronic formats (AusInfo 1999)Guidelines for Commonwealth information published in electronic formatsAusInfo 1999 " Recommend AGLS metadataAGLS metadata " also recommend HREOCnotes on Web accessalso recommend

3. Lecturer: Tom Worthington Date: 3/08/00Overhead sheet 1 File: C|\tomw\web\2000\yhtml.ppt Australian Digital Theses Program " Aims to establish a distributed database of theses " Uses PDF for document storagePDF " Dublin Core metadata is automatically generated Dublin Core metadata " Intended to use an e-commerce model, as an example: UNSW Online Payment SystemUNSW Online Payment System

4. Lecturer: Tom Worthington Date: 3/08/00Overhead sheet 1 File: C|\tomw\web\2000\yhtml.ppt Some examples of XML: " XHTML: carefully reformatted HTMLXHTML  Resource Description Framework Resource Description Framework  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Cascading Style Sheets  Electronic forms for e-commerce Electronic forms for e-commerce " Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language  Open eBook Publication Structure Open eBook Publication Structure

5. Lecturer: Tom Worthington Date: 3/08/00Overhead sheet 1 File: C|\tomw\web\2000\yhtml.ppt What are the specific limitations of the PDF format? " Portable Document Format (PDF): origins as a page description language Portable Document Format (PDF) " producing static documents " fixed size pages, with the font, text size and location of images fixed by the originator " electronic document need font size, style and screen layout dynamically adjusted " translation of web pages into other languages using the AltaVista Babel Fish Translation Service. AltaVista Babel Fish Translation Service

6. Lecturer: Tom Worthington Date: 3/08/00Overhead sheet 1 File: C|\tomw\web\2000\yhtml.ppt XML for Common File Formats " Sun Microsystems announced release source code of StarOffice (TM) Suiteannounced " Set of XML-based file formats for word processing, spreadsheets and presentation tools`with XML enabled MozillaMozilla " Mozilla.org's for an open source Wp/Web Mozilla.org's " Possibility of integrating a document and a slide show in the one file, or displaying database records as a document.

7. Lecturer: Tom Worthington Date: 3/08/00Overhead sheet 1 File: C|\tomw\web\2000\yhtml.ppt Will XML Succeed? " If fast and flexible editing and display software can be built for XML " Flexibility of the format may be its undoing " standards which perhaps need moire thought " DTD for Digital Talking Books DTD for Digital Talking Books " Building Construction Extensible Markup Language (bcXML) Building Construction Extensible Markup Language (bcXML) " Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF)

8. Lecturer: Tom Worthington Date: 3/08/00Overhead sheet 1 File: C|\tomw\web\2000\yhtml.ppt More details " This document: http://www.tomw.net.au/2000/yxml.ppt http://www.tomw.net.au/2000/yxml.ppt " Text: http://www.tomw.net.au/2000/yxml.htmlhttp://www.tomw.net.au/2000/yxml.html  Comments and corrections to: webmaster@tomw.net.au Copyright © Tom Worthington 2000. webmaster@tomw.net.auTom Worthington