XML and Apache Assignment

Let’s see, where to begin. I already had a pretty good grasp on XML due to my work with our archive on campus. I had to help construct XML documents that were compliant with Dublin Core and our own metadata format Cedar. Of course, I didn’t learn everything there is to know about XML (I still don’t know it all I started back at the basics. I looked at the W3 school’s website and some of the XML tutorials as well as the DTD tutorials. I had no experience with DTDs and the site wasn’t really a good place to start. I understand parsing documents but it still was confusing and not explained well at all.

Next I looked at resources from our university’s library. We just got access to O’Reilly’s Safari online book database so I looked up what I could find on DTDs there.  In the book XML in a Nutshell it was interesting to find out that many different organizations keep their own standards for DTDs.  It makes sense that these sorts of things should become standards within their respective organizations.

Everything on the Apache assignment went as detailed.  No problems at all.